SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Nurses
from 1A
ONA’s Nov. 7 newsletter
published statistics from the
American Hospital Directory
showing hospital revenue and
net incomes (total profits). In
it, Peace Harbor Hospital’s
2015 revenues were listed at
$100.6 million, with a net
income of 37.8 percent.
By comparison, Bay Area
hospital in Coos Bay had a net
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income of 3 percent and
Samaritan Pacific Commun-
ities in Newport was at 2.5 per-
cent.
Comparatively,
Sacred
Heart
at
RiverBend-
Springfield (a PeaceHealth
facility) showed 15.3 percent
net income.
Peace Harbor Medical
Center CEO Rick Yecny said,
“The American Hospital
Directory is significantly off.
The gross revenue is fairly
close but the net profit (net
income) numbers, for every
one of the hospitals, is really
significantly off.”
The net income figure from
the American Hospital direc-
tory is for Peace Harbor
Hospital only, and does not
take into account the income
or loss from the non-hospital
facilities of the Peace Harbor
Medical Group, like the clinic
and hospice center.
Yecny said a more accurate
picture of the entire Peace
Harbor Medical Center can be
found on the state’s Oregon
Health Authority (OHA) web-
site.
“We are pretty much in line
with the rural hospital overall
average,” Yecny said of the
OHA figures. “We are signifi-
cantly under the large hospital
average. Rural hospitals on
average are significantly
under what the large hospital
average margins are.”
Yecny explained that the
profits stay within the organi-
zation and are basically used
for what ever the mission state-
ment of the organization is.
“Healthcare is a fairly capi-
tal intensive business,” Yecny
said. “We just replaced the CT
scanner for the community at
a cost of $1.5 million. We
have to build a little bit of a
reserve to make major capital
replacements.”
A third round of negotia-
tions is scheduled for Feb. 27
and 28.
“We are currently engaged
in contract negotiations with
the Oregon Nurses Assoc-
iation and we are committed
to bargaining in good faith
and reaching an agreement on
a contract that supports our
skilled and dedicated regis-
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During
his
sen-
tencing on
Feb. 14,
Circuit
J u d g e
Mustafa
Kasubhai
said that it
was
the
7 A
tered nurses,” said Marcy I.
Marshall, director of strate-
gic communications and
engagement for PeaceHealth
in Vancouver.
According to Fleetwood, if
the negotiations break down,
the next step would be arbi-
tration, followed by media-
tion if necessary.
“We want to avoid media-
tion and hope not to strike,
but it wouldn’t be off the
table,” said Fleetwood. “But
even if there was a strike,
nurses would still be allowed
to cross the picket line to pro-
vide medical care.”
The negotiations come at
a time when PeaceHealth’s
corporate office has ann-
ounced the lay-off of as many
as
330
employees
in
Washington and Oregon after
selling its off-sight lab servic-
es to Quest Diagnostics of
New Jersey.
PeaceHealth
Medical
Group has been managing the
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center since 1979,
when the facility was called
the Western Lane Hospital.
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Immel approached Richard
Yecny, chief administrative
officer of PeaceHealth Peace
Harbor, with a proposal that
requested financial support to
provide the nonopioid option
to the community suggested
by the Center for Disease
Control.
Yecny responded favor-
ably, accepting that nontradi-
tional treatment plans can
have an important place in
patient care.
“These partnerships are a
valuable opportunity to work
toward achieving better
patient outcomes, improving
community health and deliv-
ering more efficient, cost-
effective care,” Yecny said.
“Acupuncture can be a bene-
ficial component of a
patient’s full spectrum of
healthcare. It offers pain
relief that can offset the risk
of becoming reliant on med-
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Randy Clay
Program operated briefly in
2003 and reemerged for six
months last year on a bi-
monthly basis.
Immel treated 683 patients
during that time. Nearly all
reported significant improve-
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many were able to reduce
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“By partnering and ensur-
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Immel has seen up close
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“I’ve seen individuals who
have been suffering from
chronic pain as the result of
injuries
or
constant
headaches who would come
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long-term health,” she said.
The benefits of acupunc-
ture can also extend beyond
pain relief and positively
impact patient health in other
areas.
“Acupuncture is also such
a powerful detox treatment,”
Immel said. “It really helps
people that are on multiple
medications to decrease their
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court’s intent to not release
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tor.”
Clay was previously con-
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charge
in
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bery in 1977.
tively process what they
already have in their body.”
Last year, more than 300
million pain prescriptions
were written and filled, for a
revenue of more than 24 bil-
lion dollars.
The CDC also reports that
more than 52,000 Americans
died from opioid overdoses in
2016, with 63 percent perish-
ing from prescription poison-
ing, the official designation
for these type of deaths.
Immel feels that the
patients that she sees, often
older and taking multiple
medications, can see dramat-
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holistic healthcare model to
those we serve.”
The Points of Grace clin-
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