The new owners of Greater Southeast Community Hospital told the D.C. Council on Thursday that they have already moved to upgrade equipment, facilities and management since taking over the tormented facility in November. But it will take years, administrators said, before the hospital is in “normal operating mode.”

“It took 10 years to break this hospital, and we still believe it will take two to three years to fix it,” said Frank Wilich, co-founder of New Hampshire-based Specialty Hospitals of America, Greater Southeast’s parent company.

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