Article: $5.75 Million High Bid for Greater Southeast; Auction Process Is Not Over for District Hospital and 3 Related Facilities

A podiatrist who heads a Capitol Hill long-term care and nursing facility yesterday submitted the high bid of $5.75 million in a bankruptcy auction for the District's financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital.

The bidding isn't over, though, for Greater Southeast and three other Doctors Community hospitals that are being auctioned.

Peter Shin's bid is far below the $22.3 million paid for Greater Southeast in a bankruptcy sale in November 1999. The buyer then was an Arizona firm, Doctors Community Healthcare Corp., which filed for bankruptcy three years later, leading to this week's auction.

Shin, 53, said his offer does not include assumption of any hospital liabilities.

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