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
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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.