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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 29, 2015 HEALTH DISTRICT BUDGET - THREE Ione clinic underway -Continued from PAGE ONE $7,100 for a phone sys- $46,000 with cash on hand. a nurse practitioner, began tures; Revenue deductions and bad debt-$1,066,988 expenditures; Capital pur- chases-$374,400 expendi- tures; Capital lease princi- pal reduction-0; Long and short term debt principal reduction $261,997 ex- penditures; Property taxes (including local option levy if applicable-$1,417,755. Proposed capital pur- chases include the follow- ing to be purchased through loans: $80,000 to purchase the Morrow County Annex Building; $5,000 for a loan to wire and tie-in the annex; tem extension and instal- lation; $30,800 for siding, windows and paint for the Pioneer Memorial Clinic in Heppner; $19,000 for exterior paint for Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Hep- pner; $40,000 for exterior signs for all district build- ings and traffic directional signs for the Heppner cam- pus; and $8,500 for internal “wayfinding” signs for the hospital. The district plans to pay for a portable ultrasound and contracted services for the Irrigon Clinic for Murray's Bridal Registry Amber Gray & Jarett Boyer Wedding - May 16 Chris Rayburn & Kayla Davidson Wedding - May 23 Trent Miles & Josie Miller Wedding - May 29 Trevor Rhea & Mollie Henderson Wedding - July 11 Murray's Drug, 217 N. Main, Heppner • Phone 676-9158 Have a news story or photo for the Gazette? e-mail editor@rapidserve.net call 541-676-9228 or stop by the office on Willow St., Heppner Today Also scheduled to be pur- seeing patients at the Ir- chased with cash on hand rigon Medical Clinic last are a Subaru Forester for the Monday and has been well Home Health and Hospice received. He said that a staff for $27,000 and Pulse new receptionist at Pio- Point Automated External neer Memorial Clinic, Toni Defibrillator software for Clemens, has been hired to $18,000. replace PMC’s veteran re- 50,000 in grant monies ceptionist Chris Jones, who are earmarked for a com- is transferring to the Irrigon munity paramedic vehicle Medical Clinic. and equipment and an ad- Concerning the Ione ditional $43,000 in grant school-based health center, monies for three Autopulse Grigg said that Anderson machines for Emergency Dabrowski Architects has Medical Services. completed the design of Grigg told the board the Ione Community Clinic that the district has and the Ione School engaged Merritt Board has hired Hawkins, a physi- Knerr Construction cian search firm, as project manager to recruit a family for the remodel, medicine physician which is scheduled to replace Dr. Betsy to be completed by Anderson, who will mid-August. He leave the district in Vicki Kent, said that demoli- August to take a po- ARNP tion on the existing sition in La Grande. space has begun. He said that no serious In other business, Grigg candidates have applied as told the board that the Or- of yet. egon Health Authority has Grigg also said that granted the Irrigon Medical the district has received 26 Clinic and Pioneer Memo- resumes of CEO candidates rial Clinic Tier 3 Patient to replace him so far. Grigg, Centered Primary Care who has accepted a position Home Certification. in Burns, will leave the dis- “Tier 3 designation is trict effective June 25. the highest tier and demon- He said that Vicki Kent, strates a complete commit- Knerr Construction started the remodel of the Ione Commu- nity Clinic at 325 E. 3 rd street this week. This will be a school- based health clinic open to the whole community, staffed 20 hours a week through a partnership of Morrow County Health District, Morrow County Public Health, Community Counsel- ing Solutions and Advantage Dental. Grants for the building and remodel were received from the Ione Education Founda- tion and ICABO with further grants pending from Oregon Community Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Columbia River Enterprise Zone, and Wildhorse. Ione Community Clinic is set to open in August. –Contributed photo ment to the patient centered primary care home con- cepts,” said Grigg. He said it will result in additional reimbursement for Eastern Oregon Coor- dinated Care Organization patients. In other business, the board: -received the profit and loss statement for March: The district received $755,785 in gross patient revenue, less $113,977 in revenue deductions, plus $122,740 in tax revenue and $28,411 in other operat- ing revenue for $792,959 in total operating revenue, less total operating expenses of $780,600, plus $6,785 for a non-operating gain for a $19,144 profit for the month. -received the following report: Pioneer Memorial Clinic had 477 patient vis- its in March, with 12 new patients, 24 seen by a nurse and 14 no-shows; Irrigon Medical Clinic had 259 patient visits for the month with 18 new patients, 50 seen by a nurse and 20 no-shows; Heppner Ambu- lance had 27 page-outs with 19 transports for $26,418 in revenue; Boardman Ambu- lance had 25 page-outs with 15 transports for $21,925 in revenue; Irrigon ambulance had 35 page-outs with 23 transports for $28,500 in revenue; there were five flights; Pioneer Memorial Hospital had five admis- sions; swing bed had three admissions; 10 were admit- ted for observation; one was admitted for hospital respite; swing nursing facil- ity had one admission; there were 454 outpatients and 74 emergency room encoun- ters, 1479 lab tests, 105 x-ray procedures, 17 CT scans, 11 EKG tests, two treadmill procedures, four colonoscopy procedures, two endoscopy procedures and one colon/endoscopy procedure; Home Health had 117 patient visits; Hos- pice had two admissions; pharmacy had 3,323 drug doses for $90,250 in drug revenue. Morrow SWCD to meet The Morrow SWCD will hold a regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 5, at 430 W Linden Way at 6 p.m. Agenda items include review and approval of the April minutes, current bud- get and 15/16 budget, staff reports and partner reports. The board will also meet Wednesday, May 6, at the same location begin- ning at 4 p.m. to complete the Long Range Plan docu- ment. Meetings of the Mor- row SWCD are open to the public. Community lunch menu Willow Creek Bap- tist Church members will serve lunch on Wednesday, May 6, at St. Patrick’s Se- nior Center. The meal will include sweet and sour chicken, fried rice, Chi- nese vegetables, mandarin oranges, egg rolls, and ice cream. Milk is served at each meal. Menu is subject to change.
