The Henry County Hospital Board of Directors held their monthly board meeting on Monday, May 3 in the Heller Community Room at Henry County Hospital. Present at the meeting were Dr. Joseph Krueger, Chairman of the Board; Kimberly Bordenkircher, Chief Executive Officer; Marv Barlow, Vice Chairman; John Wilhelm, Secretary; Dr. Laura Elliott, Chief of Staff; Anne Goon, Health Commissioner; Rick Roell, Dr. Robert Limbird and Tom Mack. Also present were: Michelle Rychener, Chief Operating Officer; Patricia Frank, Chief Nursing Officer; Mary Clapp, Controller; and Lee Ann Druhot, Administrative Assistant.
The Board of Directors approved the following appointments to the Henry County Hospital Medical Staff: Scott Frederick, Internal Medicine, MD; and Brian Dolsey, Cardiology, MD.
The Board of Directors approved the following reappointments to the Henry County Hospital Medical Staff: Kip Bidwell, Family Medicine, OB/GYN, MD; Joseph Krueger, Internal Medicine, MD; Anna McMaster, Family Medicine, OB/GYN, MD; Milagros Paneda, Pathology, MD; Edmundo Somoza, Radiology, MD; Kristopher Brickman, Emergency Medicine, MD; Charles Felix, Emergency Medicine, MD; Eiad Omran, Emergency Medicine, MD; S. John Pappas, Emergency Medicine, MD; Jay Smith, Pain Management, MD; Randall Bowman, Internal Medicine, MD; Georges Jabaly, Family Medicine, MD; Rajendra Kattar, Cardiology, MD; Zaid Maqbool, OB/GYN, MD; Philip O’Donnell, Ophthalmology, MD; Jeffrey Pruitt, General Surgery, MD; and Praveen Tamirisa, Cardiology, MD.
The Board of Directors approved the request for addition of Medical Review Officer privileges for Dr. Stephanie Matuszak, Dr. Milagros Paneda, Dr. Morris Seal, and Dr. Naheed Sufi.
Mary Clapp, Controller, presented the financial statements for March 2010. There were 89 admissions and 24 births thru March. Days in accounts receivable decreased to 46 days.
The Board of Directors approved to write-off $222,670.60 for bad debt. Bad debt is accounts receivable that will likely remain uncollectible.
The Board of Directors approved the Unitrends/Healthland capital request for $20,000. The Unitrends system is a hard drive based backup solution that will allow centralized management for all backups and restores in a single box with the ability to take the drives offsite for disaster recovery.
The Board of Directors approved the Pillar Data Systems capital request for $75,000. The equipment requested is an additional SAN device to allow replication from the existing Axiom 500. This SAN will be placed onsite in the secondary data center.
The Board of Directors approved the Phillips V200 Respironics Espirit Ventilator for $15,000. The ventilator cane be used for invasive and noninvasive intubation. This ventilator can also be used as a transport vent if a patient would need to be transferred to another facility.
The next Board Meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 7, 2010 in the Heller Community Room.
