Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 12, 2025 -- NINE
Morrow County Health District February board meeting
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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,
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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.
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