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Show Basis, aoji, MMIm Miners ville candidates to represent Minersville, and any two other candidates at large. Those chosen to serve a four year term on the board were Pam Mc Mullin, Minersville, and Enoch Swain and Pat Davis, at large. k Maxey listed a number of major purchases over the year totaling $33,000. Included In-cluded were a centrifuge, typewriter, duplicator, digital digi-tal blood pressure machine, emergency sign, dishwasher, dishwash-er, patient lift, ice machine, Reporting an $11,279 loss at Milford Valley Memorial Hospital Saturday night, Administrator Ad-ministrator John Maxey and Ted Stagg, auditor, Indicated Indicat-ed it was not a matter for worry. Stagg said the hospital was financially strong and well managed. The Board doesn't intend to make a profit, and so ideally will off set a profit prof-it one year with a loss the next year. The losses were attributed attribut-ed to 700 less patient days in the nursing home wing of the hospital. Maxey reported report-ed that the medical ward revenues were ( about the the hospital. Maxey reported report-ed that the medical ward revenues were about the same as the previous year. Zeke Hickman called the meeting of delegates together togeth-er and thanked them for their prompt attendance. He thanked the members who were going off the board and proceeded with the election of new members. Nominated Nominat-ed to replace Nick Leko, Scott Pearson and Florence Wood, were Pam McMullln, Dorothy Carter, Enoch Swain, Pat Davis, Joe Puffer, Puf-fer, Jerry Mayer and Elroy Nelson. The delegates were advised to select one of the resurfacing parking lot, and carpeting halls. Items were also purchased for the ambulance ambu-lance and EMT's. He expressed appreciation for the service provided by the EMT's and said the addition ad-dition of pagers had cut the response time to three minutes. min-utes. Jackie Williams, head of the nursing staff introduced new and retiring members of the Gray Ladies. She said the hospital had been blessed with volunteer services serv-ices of the organization for 25 years. Starting with 16 members, the organization now numbers 33. There are , still six of the original members mem-bers active. She presented retiring members Nora Wright, Leola Dunham and Mina Leppink with a rose. New members receiving special awards were Zeral-da Zeral-da Fernley, Sara Myers, Bobbie James, Irene Carter, Car-ter, Phyllis Mayer and Pat Davis. Maxey said that when the new hospital was built, Hill -Burton funds had been used. They were notified in 1979 that the hospital would have to pay back these funds through providing free or reduced rates to needy (Continued on Page 2) here's more about ANNUAL MEETING patients, at a rate of up to 10 per year. This accounted account-ed for some of the loss during 1980. Dr. Symond addressedthe group saying that while he was disturbed that the government gov-ernment waited until now to decide that Hill -Burton funds should be repaid, he said the hospital had a tradition of taking care of the needy. "I'm proud, and the community com-munity should be proud to do this, and it's not necessary neces-sary that the federal government govern-ment tell us how much and when." The described development develop-ment of MX, oil and other growth as future shock, which we will take care of If and when it happens. He said that there is the prospect that the number of doctors will double in Beaver County In 1981. He said, Dr. Mike Symond will join his practice prac-tice in Milford, and that both Dr. Henrie and Dr. Robinson Robin-son In Beaver are expected to have new young doctors join their practices. He said that he had that day talked to a young dentist den-tist that was considering setting set-ting up a full time practice In Milford. Business being concluded and the new members elected, elect-ed, Hickman adjourned the meeting shortly after 9:00 p.m. The annual meeting was well represented by delegates dele-gates of the various organizations organi-zations within the hospital district. |
