Hospital■ Continued from Page A-1about the auction from newspaper advertisements placed by Investment Recovery.Morgan on Friday paid $375,-000, or 10 percent, as the down payment. The remainder is to be paid Wednesday, Thagard said.Shaw and Thagard were contacted Monday at St. Joseph’s, where Shaw was completing legal work related to the sale.Shaw declined to say whether the hospital will remain open as a medical facility or close and leave 90 remaining employees without work.Nichols “has several options for the building,” Thagard said. “He may continue to operate the hospital with a management company or find a new owner.”St. Anthony’s Executive Director William Kessler said he was unable to get any answers” from Shaw about the future of the medical facility.“We are concerned for the employees and the welfare of the patients,” Kessler said. “We need to know what to tell the doctors who practice at the hospital.”St. Anthony’s is operating the medical facility as St. Clare’s Hospital under a management contract that expires Oct. 12.