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Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 12, 2025 -- NINE Morrow County Health District February board meeting -Continued from PAGE ONE generate for the year. Salary and benefits are also expected to rise by around 2.6 million, with a projected gain of $2,050 for the year. “Because we do antic- ipate a sizable settlement with the addition of the ambulance,” said health district CFO Nicole Ma- honey, “because the budget was created not including ambulance and we’ve been operating it for several months.” Health District CEO Emily Roberts reported 47 days cash on hand and 129 days in AR. She also reported a 13 percent turn- over rate and a 16.8 percent vacancy rate for human resources. Roberts said about 55 percent of the turnover rate was due to occasional part- time employees who could no longer work for the district. There are 18 open positions with one new- ly-created open position. Several of the openings are in EMS. “We’re doing fine, but we are still staffing up,” said Roberts. “Paul (Martin) is interviewing every week.” Roberts also touched on the use of full-time per- manent staff versus trav- elers. “When we say that it’s approximately the same whether we staff it or whether we use a traveler, that’s what we mean, and the budget does show that,” she said. “I know that’s been an area of a lot of concern,” she added. “Obviously we don’t want to use travelers, we would like to use all our own staff, but in terms of budget, it is a wash.” Total visits for the pre- vious month were 228 for Pioneer memorial Clinic, 175 for Ione Communi- ty Clinic, 213 for Irrigon Medical Clinic and 124 for Boardman Immediate Care. Patient Satisfaction scores for the fourth quarter 2024 were 93 percent for PMC, 100 percent for ICC, 64 percent for IMC and 40 for BIC. In the financial re- port, Mahoney reported $1,230,232 gross patient revenue for the month, plus 2,225 provisions for bad debts and less 39,825 for contractuals and ad- justments for $1,192,632 net patient revenue, plus $304,298 tax and oth- er operating revenue for $1,496,929 total operating revenue. Year-to-date, the health district saw $7,808,840 gross patient revenue, plus $27,498 provisions for bad debts and $117,759 for con- tractuals and adjustments for $7,954,097 net patient revenue, plus $2,104,766 tax revenue and $70,356 other operating revenue for $10,129,219 total operating revenue ytd. Total operating expens- es were $1,832,809 for the month, $12,377,648 ytd. Loss from operations were $335,879 for the month and $2,248,428 ytd, with a non-operating gain of $410,386 for the month and $1,091,939 ytd, for a net income for the month of $74,507 and a net loss ytd of $1,156,490. Total current assets are $7,250,053 ytd and to- tal long-term assets are $7,088,968 for $14,339,022 total assets. Total liabilities and equity/fund balance to date are $14,339,022. Roberts reported that, for the month of January, Irrigon Ambulance had 31 runs with 20 transports; Heppner had 33 runs with 17 transports and five trans- fers; and Ione and Lexing- ton each had zero runs. Pioneer Memorial Hos- pital had seven inpatient admissions and eight dis- charges for January with an average stay of 2.1 days. There was one death. Skilled swing bed had two admissions and three discharges for $25,602 in revenue. Non-skilled swing bed had one admission and zero discharges for $102,324 in revenue One patient was ad- mitted for observation for $5,234 in revenue. Two patients were admitted for respite care. There were 99 total ER encounters, 868 lab tests, 67 x-ray/ultrasound tests, MAIN STREET FOOD VENDORS 24 CT scan and 31 EKGs. There were 997 provid- er visits for $73,082.09 in hospital encounter revenue; 40 ambulance transports for $71,563 total ambu- lance revenue; 79 home health visits; three hospice admissions and one death with 228 hospice days; and 1,719 pharmacy drug doses for $30,782 in revenue. ber conflicts of interest. In other business, the The next meeting of the board: MCHD board is scheduled -Approved a three-year for March 31 at 6:30 p.m. agreement with Jack Bert- man, MD for emergency room services. Bertram has previously been a locum, filling in for a doctor who is currently deployed. -Reviewed board mem- DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5PM - THOMSON SQUARE - INFORMATION BOOTH PARADISE ROSE CHUCKWAGON 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM FRI - SAT $3 Commemorative buttons for sale at the Th om- son Square Information Booth! Each button purchased gets you entered for a $100 Prize! BBQ - @ the City Park All contributions go to the St. Patrick’s Day Planning Committee Fund. 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