County commissioners Tuesday morning voted to freeze further spending of the more than $200,000 they had earmarked last month towards securing a price on a revised set of plans for a newly renovated Weems Memorial Hospital. The 4-1 vote, with Chairman Noah Lockley firmly against, came after commissioners agreed to a request from County Coordinator Michael Morón to hold a series of workshops in October and November with the region's' three major hospital players. These would include HCA Health Care, which encompasses Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center in Panama City and Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee; Sacred Heart, which has Bay Medical in Panama City and Sacred Heart on the Gulf in Port St...
