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Comm meeting "mild," budget meeting "exciting"
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an investigation, is witholding a decision until the county's
whole financial picture is evaluated.
Obviously, then, this financial news about the condition of
the hospital comes as a big, though perhaps temporary, relief
for all concerned.
Ruma submitted to the commissioners, accounts payable
invoices totaling about $124,000 that had been approved for
payment by the Taxation Board. At the end of April the
hospital' s bank account had a positive balance of about $281,000.
The Rural Hospital Project has collected accounts receivable of
over $565,500 since April 10, 1997.
Improvements in business systems at the hospital have been
such things as installing three time clocks for employees,
instead of relying on handwritten time sheets handled in a
slipshod manner; the business office working on a 4/10 sched-
ule of 4 days per week, 10 hours per day allowing for more
flexibility in scheduling and eliminating absenteeism; and
developing a criteria based job description and evaluation
system that judges employees based on the actual job they do
rather than a subjective evaluation. The Project is also investi-
gating a drug and alcohol testing program for employees,
although Ruma states that, to his knowledge, there has not been
an employee substance abuse problem.
Another positive move has been the resubmission of over
$1.19 in hospital billings to Medicaid that have been turned
down previously.
"If we get 50 percent of them paid, then that's good," Ruma
said.
Ruma said that, additionally, the Project is going to look
closely into how expenses are handled by reviewing all con-
tracts and salary expenses• A carefully controlled, numbered
purchase order system has been instituted.
Ruma was hired to perform an evaluation and improve
methods at the hospital for a 90-day period.
"I think that the changes (being made at the hospital) are
very, very good." Revert said. "They're collecting some old
debts. People just haven't been paying their debts. And there
have been some billing problems. They're now going after
them."
Brent Mathewson contributed to this story.
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