Victory Medical Center in Beaumont faces eviction

Victory Medical Center Beaumont is facing eviction after the building's owners filed a lawsuit claiming the hospital has failed to pay more than $234,000 in rent, which is in addition to about $246,500 in taxes it owes Jefferson County.

CNL Healthcare Properties delivered the hospital a notice to vacate on May 4 and filed the lawsuit in Justice of the Peace Ken Dollinger's court on June 8. The suit contends Victory has not paid rent since March.

Victory last made a payment on its outstanding personal property taxes — for equipment, furniture, etc. — in May for $60,559, about a fifth of what it owed at the time.

Victory Medical Center's Chief Executive Officer Becky Ames said "everything will be fine for us," in a voicemail message on Thursday.

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