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Show UTAH PRESS 467 EAST ASSXIATICN 300 SOOTH. SALT LAKE CITY outnem 84111 ma Ual, n tiu something Thursday, May 27, 1982 Volume 51 Number 41 ITT Kanab, Utah 84741 Everyone Single Copy 25c Board Considers Future Of Kane County Hospital Members of the Kane County Hospital Board met May 18 to hear Bill Morton, vice president of Advanced Health Systems propose a new contract and new operating relationship between AHS and Kane County. The board also discussed other possible options open for running the hospital and unanimously rejected the return of former hospital administrator Larry Turpen as a possibility. Morton told the board that if the new contract is adopted, the AHS management program at the hospital would be more in line with the prevailing practice of the industry in which the company and the county would share the risk involved in operating the facility. Under the old contract. AHS assumed full risk for the operation in return for 20 of any profits. The new contract would return most of the actual control of hospital policy to the hospital board with AHS serving only to administer the hospital and clinic. This arrangement would make the local board responsible for such services as payroll, personnel, accounting, accounts payable, data processing and quality of care. The Board would then be able to set price schedules and policy. AHS would administer the hospital for an annual fee of $60,000. Morton felt that the flat rate would eliminate a current community concern over the fact that the contract presently is open ended with no real restrictions over add-ocharges incurred by the company. As part of its annual fee, AHS would handle the recruitment of new doctors, licensing of the facility and its employees, accounting and record keeping for Medicaid and Medicare, and field support and facility development including maintenance and specialized technical services. As an incentive for efficient operation, profits from hospital operation would be split 5050 by the county and AHS. Hospital administrator Kent Aland said that in the last seven months the hospital has realized a profit of $15,000. Under terms of the present contract, AHS should receive 20 of that amount but bepause of an annual loss of $40,000 in the nursing home will not realize that amount. Aland said the losses in the n a local bank to be amortized nursing home are a result of a period of time from over full paycollecting problems ment from Medicaid, but that hospital revenue. This is a a recent lawsuit by the part of the proposed sharing of hospital against the state of risk between the two entities. Utah was settled in the The "buy back" would occur hospitals favor and that if the county should decide to contract with another comshould change the situation somewhat in the future. pany or return the hospital's Aland also said that AHS, operation completely to the through application of proper county. It was explained that AHS is accounting procedures and the improvement of the quality of just now straightening out the care and facilities in the mess it inherited from the former hospital administraKanab hospital has been able tion. When pressure from to increase reimbursements from insurance companies and state Medicare by about and Federal $100,000 per year. Of that government a Grand threatened amount, approximately $22,-00Jury will be paid to AHS as an investigation and possible administrative fee for hand- criminal action as a result of alleged irregularities in adling the Medicare program. This will be subtracted from ministration and accounting at the $60,000 contract fee the hospital. Hospital records were at charged the county, leaving the county with about a that time locked in the county $38,000 annual fee for conjail by the former administratinued AHS administration of tor in an attempt to thwart the the hospital. investigation. Accounting and at The new contract will call audit the procedures for the county to buy back hospital now meet state and from AHS the company's Federal requirements. Some possible options in investment in new equipment, improvements to the building hospital management were and accounts receivable. This discussed by the Board. These would with amount to about included continuing $300,000. AHS proposes that AHS, replacing AHS with the county obtain a note from Samaritan Health Services of 0 Karen Alvey Elected Pres. Of UtahSchool Boards Assn. Karen Alvey, a member of national educational conventhe Kane County Board of tions like the one she recently Education, is serving this year attended in Atlanta, Georgia. as president of the Utah She is the second woman to School Boards Association. hold the honor of serving as Among her duties as president president of the approximately of the association, which is 200 member group. She made up of all the members of served as vice president last all the school boards in the year and automatically asstate, are such things as sumed the presidency in representing the state of Utah January. She explained that at regional and national the presidents chair is rotated meetings. She is the states among the 30 regions of the spokesperson for education in state so all will have an Washington, D.C. and in opportunity from time to time Df g DQQ be represented by a president from its own territory. Even so, she was selected by the members from a field of about 30 candidates. Mrs. Alvey says she is "really thrilled" to have a chance to serve and that it is a great honor for a district as small as Kane County to have a president selected from it. She sees it as an opportunity for Kane County to have some real influence for a time on the course of education in Utah. TOD faSDOnn., Program in Kanab one can count the number of lives ruined by alcoholism. Not only the lives of the alcoholics themselves are shattered, but all too often the lives of their families as A new well. community program trains community volunteers, church leaders, and others in educators alcoholics and their helping families. Called the Cottage Program, it recognizes that nobody really knows why a person becomes an alcoholic. The old assumptions have been disproved. It is not because a person is weak, morally inferior, or a failure in life. The Cottage Program works toward dispelling the absurd stereotypes associated with alcoholism. By doing so it will make it easier for the people w ho need help to seek it without shame. By emphasizing prevention, it Dukes Sets Dressmaking Contest An exciting and challenging There it is! Eric Browns record shattering vault of 14 6 - a new Utah High School Record! Former administrator Larry Turpen was mentioned as a possible administrator if the hospital returns to full county operation. The proposal was unanimously rejected by the board because of the problems associated in the past with Turpens administration of the hospital and reports of a letter and telephone campaign currently being waged by Turpen to return to the hospital. This campaign is allegedly causing problems in the community now by stirring hard feelings over the present state of affairs. According to one board member, hospital "There's simply no way we could possibly accept Larry Turpen's return. In other business, the board set up committees for the annual review of s and the hospital budget. Consideration of the future of the hospital will continue at future board meetings. New Alcoholism No io Arizona or returning the hospital to counts operation. Returning it to county operation could mean obtaining a consulting service to advice and assist, establishing a hospital district or hiring an administrator directly. contest has been announced for young seamstresses between the ages of 15 and 19 by Dukes Clothing Store of Kanab. According to store manager Sam Aiken, the contest presents an opportunity for young women to cash in on their sewing skills with gift certificates offered as prizes. Contest rules call for the participant to purchase at least 80 of the material used in making the dress at Dukes store between May 15 and June 19. Cash register receipts must be included with the entry. Dresses should be made completely by the entrants without assistance. Entries may be turned in at the store between June 17 and June 19. Judging will be done the evening of June 19. A $40 gift certificate is offered as first prize and a $30 certificate will be the second prize. Winning dresses will be displayed at the store. Entry blanks and more details may be obtained at Duke's Gothing Store on Center Street in Kanab. hopes to encourage the most effective deterrent to alcoholism there is the confident, growing individual who relishes life his own, and those of the people around him. - What would YOU think If you found someone dressed like THAT In YOUR front yard? Were not sure just what Carmen Russell of Fredonia was thinking as she helped Mont Griffiths collect a hive of his bees that had swarmed Into one of her trees, but it looked to our photographer like a good place to mind ones own I buzziness. Sales Volume Up By 9.1 In Kane Last Year Business volume, as measured by local sales tax last receipts, rose by 9.1 year, according to a report just completed by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. The study notes that this change does not make allowance for inflation, which was 10.4 in 1981. Gross sales volume in Kane County during 1981 amounted to $21,636,000. This compared however, that in some of the smaller governmental units sales tax on equipment purchases for one or two large projects sometimes can distort the sales volume information for the entire unit. For the state as a whole, business activity in Utah picked up slightly after two slow years of relatively growth. Total sales volume, as measured by local sales tax last receipts, rose by 13.6 year. This was somewhat above the inflation rate of 10.4. When an adjustment is made for the reduced purchasing power of the dollar, the effective gain in sales volume during 1981 was This gain compares with effective sales volume in 1980 and declines of 5.9 0.5 in 1979. The performance of the sales tax last year will allow Utah to fiscal complete the 1981-8without any expenditure year cuts in state appropriations. Because of the slowdown in sales tax and other tax collections during the previous two years, the state was forced to order reductions in state allocations for the 1979-8and the 1980-8fiscal vears. in 1980, with $19,823,000 $11,042,000 in 1975, $5,024,-ooin 1970, and $3,661,000 in 1965. The report cautions. o - Cottage Program instructors will be in Kanab at the Zions Bank Community Room June 3rd, 4th and 5th. Classes will run from 9 to 5 all three days. Attendance at all three meetings is desirable, but for those with limited time, a great deal can be learned by attending any of the sessions. The Cottage Program addresses a serious and growing problem in the Kanab area. It recognizes alcohol as a drug and deals with it as such. Thus, the program has a thrust - toward alcohol and drug dependency. It is a proven program for rebuilding shattered lives. It deserves the support of all. d Water Construction Starts in Mt. Carmel The Utah Water Board committed funds to help pay construction costs for several w'ater projects across the state in its May meeting in Salt Lake City. Among the commitments was $46,440 from the Water and Power Board Revolving Construction Fund to the Mt. Carmel Special Service District to help construct a new culinary water system for Mt. Carmel. Bids for the job have been let and accepted, with Jack Maxwell and Glendale Construction Company getting the job. Work will be starting soon. Latest arrival at the Kant County Hospital was a babv girl, born May 25, 1982, tc LuAnn and James Bryant ol Fredonia. She weighed 7 lbs. 3 ozs. Summer School 3.0. To begin In Fredonia Title I Summer School will get underway in Fredonia on June 14 and run through the 2 23rd. Parents will be notified if their child is eligible to attend. Eligibility is determined by the results of achievement tests given recently. The summer classes will consist of reading and math. 1 In 1881 , Kanab was a sleepy little town of less than 350 Ruby Brown Notes 101 st Birthday inhabitants baking under the Southwestern sun. It was only twelve vears old and it would still be another three years before it would be incorporated. James A. Garfield would and soon be assassinated replaced in office by Chester A. Arthur. Indian wars were still being fought throughout the west. General Custer had lost his scalp at the Little five only years Bighorn earlier. It would be 15 more vears before Utah would be granted statehood. The United Order was still flourishing in Orders ille and John Taylor was serving as the third president of the Mormon Church. John Wesley Powell and Ferdinand V. Hayden still were exploring and mapping this rough and beautiful country. On May 25. 1881, Ruby Lucille Snyder Brown was born in Park City to George J. and Rhoda Snyder. She was the sixth child born to her mother. She is the last living of 37 children born to her father and his five wives. She married William B. Brown of Tooele in 1909 and traveled over much of the west with him as followed work in the mines. He died in 1928. one of their three Only children is still living. One of iier four grandchildren, Mark H. Brown of Kanab. died last vear. She also has 11 great grandchildren and 11 grandchildren. great-grea- d Total sales volume in Utah during the 1981 calendar year amounted to $9,858,650,000. This sum was equal to 78.2 of total personal income for the year, and was up slightly from 77.1 recorded during the preceding year. The Foundation study notes that the proportion of personal income spent on items subject to the sles tax in Utah rose steadily from 71.7 in 1970 to in 1978. This percen84.0 tage, however, declined to 81.3 in 1979 and to 77.1 in 1980. The improved sales tax collections during the past year resulted not only from a continued increase in personal income (up by 12.1 in 1981), but also from a larger proportion of such income being spent on items subject to the sales tax. Foundation analysts emphasize that the reported sales volume figures are not confined to retail sales. In fact, of reported only about 50 sales volume last year was for sales made through regular retail outlets. Other important contributors to sales tax revenues were wholesale, manufacturing, utility, mining, construction, and service establishments. t |