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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1987)
T\W> - The H rppnrr ( iiir tlt T Im n, Krppner. Oregon W rd n r^» ), J tn u irt 7, I9R7 Health district advisory committee questions County Court The special committee appointed by the Morrow County Court to in vestigate the formation of separate he lath district» within Morrow County met with County Commis »loners Irv Rauch. G W. "Jerry Feck, and Morrow County Judge elect I jh iis Carlson Monday. Dec 29 at lone City Hall to question the court regarding its policy currently governing health care Monday's meeting was the fifth time the committee has met since us appointment in early December The seven member committee compris ed of representatives from the five cities within the county. has review ed equipment and facilities at Hepp net's Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Hoardman's North Morrow Medical Center, and the Hoardman Am bulance The cities of lone and Ir- rigon currently have no equipment or facilities provided by the county for medical purposes l-arry Mills, chairman of the com mittee told the court the committee has also reviewed financial statements and has met with the county s medical boards to bear opi nions on current health care needs and future health care needs Committee member Chuck Starr, (.cxington. questioned the court on the continuation of public hearings in Hoardman and asked if more time could be granted to the committee before presenting a recommendation Commissioner Peck responded that the continuation of the Tint bear ing is set for January b and that the court expects the committee to pre sent Ms recommendation at that time "Some kind of determination has to be made at the conc lusion of the first hearing." he said Peck continued that a second and final hearing is possible but by law the court must allow 20 days for public response before holding the second hearing Peck said ’he committee could re quest more time but public notice would have to he given "When I ulk about more time, remember we're looking at a February 5 deadline in order to get it on the March ballot " Committee members stressed that Linda LaR ue (left) Com m issioner Irv Rauch, and Chuck Starr they did r»a want to proamg tne eiec lain process and would present a recommendation at die January 6 hearing Linda 1-aRuc of lone asked the court for clarification of the salary arrangement between the county and Drs Koznek and Thiessen in Heppner Pie court explained that the Hcpp tier physicians run a private practice and that the county does not pay them a salary However, the county does guarantee Thiesvena nd Ko/nrk yearly incomes of SbU.000 and S70,000 respectively If the physi cians earn less than the guaranteed amount the county pays the dif ference The county does not pay malpractice insurance for the doctors but Peck said it is marked off as an expense which is covered under the guarantee The commissioners said they did not know if the counts has had to pay the physicians under the guarantee to date Peck went on to say that the court is not authorized to look at the Heppner doctor's hooks The hospital board authorizes payment to the doctors Only the hospital hoard and an independent auditor have the autfiority to look at the doctorZ hooks as a condition of their con tracts with the county In the past Dr Zielinski of the North Morrow Medical Clinic in Hoardman has paid his own malprac tice insurance During this year s contract negotiations with Zielinski, the county agreed to pay for his malpractice insurance in addition to his salary The county pays Ziclin ski an annual salary ol S46.000 as an employee of Morrow County Malpractice insurance is provided for all county fac ilities used in the deliverance of health care hy the county laRue asked the court if it would be cheaper and more efficient to group malpractice insurance costs status for one and one-half patients a day "We support sixty five employee» from lab support etcetera for >me and a hall patients a day,*' Kelger staled "That blows my mind You buy computors and phone lines hu won't buy a defibulator for the north end I can't believe you would let that happen." he said Peck told Kegler that in the Iasi election the hospital budget was voted on separately from the county budget Voters approved it on the first election The north end budget for medical care was in the county's general fund, which was defeated and cuts had to be made The committee told the court that thes were not quite certain how the nursing home tied into the Pioneer Memorial Hospital "I'd like to see the nursing home he jhle to flhs for itself but the ad minis)ratnr (John Hemprll keeps tel ing us it can’t." Peck said The committee said it recognized the nursing home as a valuable part of viuth county An inquiry was made to the court as to its intentions once a recommen datum was presented Chuck Starr jskrd it the recommendation would automatic ally go before the voters or it the county would use its power to exercise some other options louis Carlson responded that the County Court would he hard pressed to follow a recommendation if tltc committee could come up with a viable recommendation "W e're talking about com promise." Carlson said, " I ’m con- s inced the people are smart enough to know a reasonable compromise when they sec one I don't think anybody expects to be satisfied one hundred percent and will buy a good compromise." Carlson said together "It seems like we have duplication." she said 1-aRue told the court that one of lone's immediate needs is an am hulance laRue said she approach ed the court in 1979 as Mayor of lone about putting an ambulance in lone lone did get an ambulance, she continued, but it was very old and was not outfitted properly The city paid insurance costs and training costs for volunteer personnel to operate the vehicle The city even tually had to abandon operation of the ambulance because of a lack of people and money l.aRue said she would like to see an ambulance placed in lone as an extension of the Pioneer Memorial Hospital "W e have a fire depart men! that's interested and two train ing to he FM T's,” she saul Dan Creamer raised the question of the county providing space at the Irngon annex for Dr Zielinski to sec patients in Irngon Presently. the Ci ty of Irngon donates space for Dr Zirlincki to sec patients on Monday mornings Irngon also pays the Ci ty of Umatilla for use of its am butanee services while paving tax dollars into Morrow County's health care budgets Commissioner Irs Rauch said he could not sec why a space could not be made available for Dr Zielinski and the court would look into (hat possibility The court could not give a spec ific answer of how many patients were seen at the Heppner hospital, when asked hy committee member Jerry Donovan, but did answer that the hopsital had an average patient load of I S patients per day Art Kegler said he was surprised at the antmnt ol administrative funds in the budget to maintain a hospital I »»«a * > ,7 * 1 * I Nwmt County Agent’s Corner Y EXTENSION SERVICE By County Ag Agent Fred Lundin j ¡vV^ ^ ¡y\$ SAVE s3 00 ON EACH GALLON OF C EILIN G PAINT OR FLAT WALL PAINT Ceiling Paint Flat Wall Paint This heavy bodied formulation is a one coat application tor most types ol ceilings Mini mizes drips, and spatters dur mg overhead painting with any type ol applicator Formulated in dead Mat to reduce reMec lion and glare lap free in all types ot lighting (2602) Formulated tor an elegant smooth washable finish last mg tor years White only (2691) $ 0 9 9 Gal. 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