Louisiana Voice

One of the properties of Rock Bordelon and Allegiance Health Care in Ruston has reportedly been sold at a sheriff’s sale for unpaid taxes of nearly $19,000 to a resident of Alabama who is an officer in a newly formed multi-regional electric utility company.

Northside Family Practice, formerly Northside Green Clinic at 1402 Celebrity Drive in Ruston was reported purchased by BECKY WALDING of Hoover, Alabama.

BECKY WALDING

Walding worked for Southern Company, an American gas and electric utility holding company based in Atlanta, with offices in Birmingham. According to her Linkedin profile, she worked for Southern Company for nearly 17 years, more than four years as Transmission Planning Manager. She then worked for Southern Power for two-and-a-half years as director of Transmission & Market Policy before spending three years as Senior Director of Business Management at NextEra Energy Transmission and then three years as Chief Development Officer for VIRIDON, a three-year multi-regional electric utility out of Chicago that builds, buys and manages transmission assets.

It was unclear what her intentions are in purchasing a defunct medical clinic founded by two physicians who have since signed on to practice with Willis Knighton, which is building a facility in Ruston. The building reportedly cost $800,000 to build. Also unclear was her connection, if any, to Bordelon.

A provision of the sale gives Bordelon the opportunity to reacquire ownership of the property if he pays the tas liability of $18,926.76 within three years of the purchase by Walding.

Meanwhile, tension continues to build between Bordelon and his Allegiance Health which runs North Louisiana Medical Center, the subject of a scathing 84-page report by the Louisiana Department of Hospitals which found NLMC falling far short in a number of areas of required services.

Bordelon has engaged in exchanges with Ruston critics of his administration of medical facilities in an online web service called Ruston Rants: