July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Hospital buys medical center (4/29/04)
Vormohr sells to JCH
The Jay County Hospital Board voted Wednesday to purchase the Vormohr Medical Center building and property, located at 1758 West 100 South, Portland, for $650,000.
In making this purchase, JCH will form a limited liability company with Cardinal Health Systems. The hospital will have a 65 percent part in the LLC.
According to board chairman Bill Davis, CHS wants JCH to form the LLC with the intent to “invest in the future of primary health care in the community.”
JCH chief executive officer Joe Johnston said nothing will change at the medical center after the purchase is made. All of the current tenants will remain in the building.
The hospital board also approved the purchase of a $25,970 AMSCO orthopedic extension table, which could improve the quality of work on repairs of hip and femur fractures.
Before the board made its decision, Dr. Dragos Macelaru of Jay County Orthopedics told members the table is transparent, which will allow the surgeon to see every possible angle. The table the hospital currently uses is not transparent and limits the positions patients can be in during operations.
The new table also contains everything needed for the operation, which allows easier movement of the table through the operating rooms. The table the hospital currently owns is in two segments.
“I worked with a table like this in Winchester, and it worked very well,” said Macelaru. “The table has a lot of options, and it may improve the quality of the surgeries.”
Macelaru also cited the increasing number of elderly residents in the local communities as a reason for purchasing the table. He said he has repaired eight hip fractures since he began working for Jay County Hospital in late 2002, and believes the number will soon increase.
Davis said the hospital received three quotes on the orthopedic extension table, and the board accepted the lowest quote.
Johnston said the hospital has already completed brochures to distribute to patients and local residents, in hopes people from other communities would come to JCH for surgeries because of the new table.
Also Wednesday, board members approved the purchase of a Grass Electroencephalogram machine for $19,000, which could be in place in the sleep lab and ready to use within two to four weeks. Johnston said the hospital decided it needed a new EEG machine because the old one was no longer going to be serviced by the manufacturing company. Also, the paper products needed for the machine are no longer available.
The new unit will perform all of the same functions as the one the hospital currently uses. It comes with a one-year service agreement.
In other news, board member Debbie Kummer said the JCH Foundation awarded $20,000 in scholarships to 13 students, employees and community members planning to go into the medical profession. The scholarship winners will be announced at Honors Night at Jay County High School on Monday, May 10. Three of the students are from Fort Recovery High School, and the rest of the students attend JCHS. This is the first year that students from Fort Recovery have won scholarships.
Kummer said the purpose of giving the scholarships is to encourage people to come back and serve the community by working at JCH.
Also Wednesday, board members:
•Heard chief financial officer Don Michael report that the hospital had a net income of $245,353 in March, which is 8.1 percent above a budgeted figure of $226,873. Hospital admissions in March totaled 116. This figure is down 1 percent from the budgeted number of 117.
•Learned from Johnston that the first radio broadcast for TeenAware had a good response from the community, and the web site is getting hundreds of hits per day. The web site is www.teenaware.com, and the radio program can be heard on WPGW 100.9 FM on Sundays from 8 to 9 p.m.
•Heard that 69 hospital auxiliary volunteers worked 1,323 hours in March.[[In-content Ad]]
In making this purchase, JCH will form a limited liability company with Cardinal Health Systems. The hospital will have a 65 percent part in the LLC.
According to board chairman Bill Davis, CHS wants JCH to form the LLC with the intent to “invest in the future of primary health care in the community.”
JCH chief executive officer Joe Johnston said nothing will change at the medical center after the purchase is made. All of the current tenants will remain in the building.
The hospital board also approved the purchase of a $25,970 AMSCO orthopedic extension table, which could improve the quality of work on repairs of hip and femur fractures.
Before the board made its decision, Dr. Dragos Macelaru of Jay County Orthopedics told members the table is transparent, which will allow the surgeon to see every possible angle. The table the hospital currently uses is not transparent and limits the positions patients can be in during operations.
The new table also contains everything needed for the operation, which allows easier movement of the table through the operating rooms. The table the hospital currently owns is in two segments.
“I worked with a table like this in Winchester, and it worked very well,” said Macelaru. “The table has a lot of options, and it may improve the quality of the surgeries.”
Macelaru also cited the increasing number of elderly residents in the local communities as a reason for purchasing the table. He said he has repaired eight hip fractures since he began working for Jay County Hospital in late 2002, and believes the number will soon increase.
Davis said the hospital received three quotes on the orthopedic extension table, and the board accepted the lowest quote.
Johnston said the hospital has already completed brochures to distribute to patients and local residents, in hopes people from other communities would come to JCH for surgeries because of the new table.
Also Wednesday, board members approved the purchase of a Grass Electroencephalogram machine for $19,000, which could be in place in the sleep lab and ready to use within two to four weeks. Johnston said the hospital decided it needed a new EEG machine because the old one was no longer going to be serviced by the manufacturing company. Also, the paper products needed for the machine are no longer available.
The new unit will perform all of the same functions as the one the hospital currently uses. It comes with a one-year service agreement.
In other news, board member Debbie Kummer said the JCH Foundation awarded $20,000 in scholarships to 13 students, employees and community members planning to go into the medical profession. The scholarship winners will be announced at Honors Night at Jay County High School on Monday, May 10. Three of the students are from Fort Recovery High School, and the rest of the students attend JCHS. This is the first year that students from Fort Recovery have won scholarships.
Kummer said the purpose of giving the scholarships is to encourage people to come back and serve the community by working at JCH.
Also Wednesday, board members:
•Heard chief financial officer Don Michael report that the hospital had a net income of $245,353 in March, which is 8.1 percent above a budgeted figure of $226,873. Hospital admissions in March totaled 116. This figure is down 1 percent from the budgeted number of 117.
•Learned from Johnston that the first radio broadcast for TeenAware had a good response from the community, and the web site is getting hundreds of hits per day. The web site is www.teenaware.com, and the radio program can be heard on WPGW 100.9 FM on Sundays from 8 to 9 p.m.
•Heard that 69 hospital auxiliary volunteers worked 1,323 hours in March.[[In-content Ad]]
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