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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
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