NATCHEZ — Members of the Adams County Board of Supervisors headed to a meeting with the hospital board Monday planning to ask for at least one resignation.

But the closed meeting at Natchez Regional Medical Center resulted in no staffing changes, hospital board Chairman Dan Bland said after the meeting.

During Monday’s supervisors meeting, President Henry Watts said he would meet with the hospital trustees and he wanted answers about where the hospital situation currently stands.

“I will be asking a lot of questions, and I will be asking for some resignations,” Watts said.

Supervisor Mike Lazarus read a prepared statement about the hospital at the supervisors’ meeting.

Lazarus said he would like to see a permanent hospital CEO appointed to replace Scott Phillips, whose firm, Health Management Partners, was selected to restructure the hospital in April 2008.

“The failure of the hospital is not an option,” Lazarus said. “The financial fallout would be devastating to Adams County, the employees of Natchez Regional and their families.

“We will have to work like never before and have to put our personal agendas aside.”

Discussion of the $100,000 fee that is paid to Health Management Partners came up during the meeting, but no one is quitting or getting fired, Bland said.

“(Phillips’) fee is for a company, and that includes the payment of about seven employees,” Bland said.

“It is not him getting that kind of money. He has a whole staff of people who work for that hospital.”

During the meeting, discussion centered on the future of the hospital, including efforts to recruit more doctors, Bland said.

Recruiting more doctors is essential to the future of the hospital and the community, Bland said.

“Even though our sale didn’t go through like we thought it would, it is time to sell a great hospital, but this community needs more doctors,” Bland said. “We need more doctors, surgeons and cardiologists — and we told (the supervisors) we might need their help getting them.”