The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday April 19, 1979 THREE
Board members say long-range plan must be developed first
PMH
The question of whether or
not to hire a medical manage
ment firm will not likely be
answered for some time,
following action taken by
Pioneer Memorial Hospital's
board of trustees Tuesday
night.
In a unanimous vote, the
board agreed to enter into a
contract with the Oregon
Association of Hospitals'- Dir
ector of Management Sys
tems, R.D. Ellingson, to draft
a long-range plan for the
hospital. Government regula
tions require that hospitals be
in the process of completing
such a plan by June.
Hospital board member Dan
Sweeney, who previously had
pushed for a speedy resolution
of the management firm
question, stated Tuesday that
"we need to go through the
planning process in order to
make an intelligent decision
on the management prop
osals. We've got to know
where we're going, first."
Under the terms of the
contract, Pioneer Memorial, a
member of the Oregon Assoc
iation of Hospitals, would pay
Ellingson $500 per month for a
maximum of six months to
complete the planning pro
cess. The hospital board
indicated that it would ar
range for Ellingson to come to
Anglers can expect good
fishing opener
A big day in the year for
many Oregon anglers breaks
on Saturday, April 21, with the
opening of the general trout
season.
Betting on opening day
weather is a good way to lose
money, but it seems the
conditions are more often cold
and miserable than not.
Nevertheless, many waters
will offer good angling in spite
of conditions and a good
percentage of Oregon's 800,000
or so anglers are likely to turn
out.
It should be kept in mind
that not all waters open in
April. Coastal rivers, for
instance, won't open until May
26 to protect outmigrating
salmon and steelhead. Most
streams in the northeastern
corner of the state as well as a
few other waters in Oregon
also do not open until May.
There are major changes in
regulations for the lower 100
miles of the Deschutes River,
and other smaller changes
elsewhere, so anglers would
be wise to pick up a copy of the
1979 Angling Synopsis. They
are available free from sport
ing goods stores and other
outlets where angling licenses
are sold. (Don't forget your
angling license, by the way).
A year ago, due to a mild
winter and light snow pack,
anglers found unusually good
water (if not weather) condi
tions early in the season. This
year they will be more like
normal. Some rivers will be
high, murky and cold from
melting snow runoff. Some
lakes and campgrounds will
be inaccessible during the
early part of the season due to
snow cover.
Because of cold water
temperatures and ice cover on
ponds at Fall River and
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Heppner in the near future to
outline what his planning
effort would entail in a public
meeting.
In other development, the
board discussed a bill recently
introduced in the Oregon
House of Representatives by
Rep. Bill Bellamy, which
would require hospital board
members to be elected, rather
than appointed by the county
court.
Under the terms of Bel
lamy's proposal House Bill
3037 one board member
would be elected from the
county's north end, one from
the south end, and the
remaining three would be
elected on an at-large basis.
Board members voieed no
objections to the concept of
having an elected, rather than
appointed board. But there
was criticism expressed over
a number of points, including
that the bill does not address
itself to handling the transi
tion between replacing ap
pointed members with elected
ones, or resolve age-old prob
lems stemming from a lack of
clear delineation over who
controls the hospital the
county or the hospital board.
A committee from the
hospital board will draft an
official response to the bill,
with plans to meet with
Wizard Falls trout hatcheries,
many fish have shown less
than normal growth and will
be below legal size by April 21.
Because of this, some waters
in eastern Oregon that are
normally stocked before the
opening will not be planted,
and others may receive fewer
fish than usual. With warmer
weather and heavy feeding,
however, hatchery fish are
now growing rapidly and the
picture may change for the
better before opening day.
The following is a summary
of prospects for the opening
weekend compiled from the
reports of 22 field biologists
whose districts cover the
fishing waters of the state. An
attempt has been made here
to accurately summarize con
ditions, but it should be
recognized that weather will
have a strong influence on
fishing prospects and access
in the days leading up to the
opening.
Most northeast Oregon
streams remain closed to
angling until May 26.
Exceptions to this are Wil
low Creek and Rhea Creek
which open April 21.
Ponds which are open year
around but which will be
planted with catchable sized
trout prior to April 21 include
Cutsforth, Tatone, McNary
and Hat Rock ponds. Access to
all of these should be okay by
the general season opener on
the 21st.
Most lakes and ponds in the
John Day Basin should pro
vide good angling although
some may receive smaller
allocations of stocked trout
than in past years due to
slower than normal growth in
central Oregon hatcheries
during cold weather.
Access to Bull Prairie
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delays
Bellamy when he appears in
Heppner on April 27 to attend
an Oregon Wheal League
meeting.
Bellamy told the Gazette
Times that he has no personal
opinion on whether the bill
should be approved. He said it
was drafted at the request of
Save Our Hospital leader Mer!
Cantin.
Bellamy stated that he was
seeking public opinion on the
bill, adding that "I'll do
whatever the people want me
to do. I want to know their
feelings. If they don't want it,
then it will stay right here in
committee and never come
out."
The District 55 representa
tive said he would like public
response to be "within the
next couple of weeks."
Responses from the public
should be directed to the
county court, or to Bellamy's
office in Salem, the freshman
representative said.
Hospital Administrator Bob
Byrnes told the board that he
was investigating the possibil
ity of entering an agreement
with one of the Portland area
hospitals with a medical
education program, to allow
physicians working on resi
dency requirements to spend
six week rotations at Pioneer
Memorial. The move would
Reservoir will probably be
blocked by snow and camp
grounds will also probably be
snowed under. The same is
likely going to be true of
Magone and Olive lakes.
Strawberry Lake was com
pletely iced over in early April
and not likely to open by April
21.
Access ia a'so questionable
to Canyon Meadows Reser
voir. Waters for which stock
ing is planned before April 21
are Row Creek Reservoir,
Wineland Lake, Bates Pond
and Carpenter Pond.
Wallowa Lake will receive a
sizeable plant of pan-sized
rainbow trout prior to opening
weekend. Because of cold
weather, angling for kokanee
is likely to be slow during the
early weeks of the season.
Boats and motors are avail
able for rent at the lake.
Kinney Lake will receive
4,000 legal-sized rainbows for
the opening and should also
have a good population of
carryover trout from last
year.
Victor Pond, Hatchery Pond
and Wallowa Pond will each
be stocked for opening week
end. The Snake River below
Hells Canyon Dam has been
providing good angling in
recent weeks for large rain
bow trout.
Streams in Burnt River,
Powder River and Pine Creek
drainages open April 21, but
will probably be high, murky
and cold. Fishing is likely to
be poor until water conditions
improve later in the season.
Among ponds for which
rainbow stocking is planned
are North Powder No. 1 and 2,
Roulet, Haines No. 1, Vogel
Pond and Highway 203 Pond.
Morgan Lake should be good
for rainbows 8 to 12 inches.
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management proposal decision
provide the hospital with
back-up physicians, give ex
perience to the doctors work
ing on the residency program,
and could serve to attract
resident physicians to locate
in Heppner upon completion of
their program.
An agreement with a group
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of physicians at St. Anthony's
Hospital in Pendleton for
providing doctors to fill in for
Heppner's lone practicing
physician, Dr. Joseph Gifford,
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to the hospital to pay her fee,
Byrnes said.
The financial situation for
the hospital itself was not as
close to break-even proposi
tion, Byrnes reported. Figures
for March showed that the
average daily occupancy was
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29 per cent, resulting in a net
loss of $2,637. In February, the
hospital showed a profit for
the first time in a number of
months, when the occupancy
averaged 47 per cent. Feb
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her group plans to hold a tea
and open house at the hospital
during National Hospital
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