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Show Hospital Budget for 1970 Approved Here Monday At the County budget hearing hear-ing Tuesday mcniing, J. Kay Hawks, administrator at the Allen Memorial Hospital, presented his operating budget bud-get for the forthcoming year. The only objection raised was to the question cf room rates. This objection was outvoted and the budget was approved as follows: Under the general heading of patient care come nursing nurs-ing salaries, which raised only slightly over what is expected ex-pected for this year; surgical surgi-cal salaries, which show a slight decrease from what was budgeted last year, from $5,130 in 1959 to $5,000 in 1910; a one thousand dollar increase was noten in C.S.S. Salaries; Lab and X-ray salaries also showed an increase in-crease of $1,000. Anesthesia salaries reflected an increase of. about $2,000; Medical Records Re-cords salrie were increased by. $100; nursing supplies showed a decrease from a budgeted $1,520 last year to l$r,0CD budgeted for next year. There was also a decrease de-crease of $2.C00 in the proposed pro-posed cost of medical and surgical supplies. - Living Costs Increase .Nursery supply costs remained re-mained constant at $330; a general increase in cost is relected in the $1400 raise ire the cost of operating room supplies. It was estimated by Mr. Hawks that there had been an 18 per cent increase in-crease in the cost of drugs" in the past year. Delivery room supplies, however, remained re-mained the same. There was a $500 decrease in the amount am-ount budgeted for supplies for the emergency room. . C. S. Supplies increased from a budgeled $1,500 in 1969 to a budgeted $5,000 for 197D. It was noted, however, that the $1,500 had not been adequate for 1969. X-ray services and supplies dropped drop-ped almost $5,000 from a 1969 amount of $15,000 to a 1970 amount of $10,500. In 1969, there was a need for only $10,200 worth of supplies sup-plies and this is the reason for lowering that amount. The cost for blood allocations alloca-tions was raised from $700 nr 1969 to $1,200 in 1970. There was about a $200 drop in EKG service and supply with a rise in Lab service and supply ir the amCunt of $400. Fharmacy service rose from $16,500 to $20,000 for next year. This too, reflects re-flects the rise in drag prices. pric-es. Drop Sn Anesthesia Anesthesia service and supply dropped by $5,000, from $6,500 allocated last year to $1,500 for the next. Only $1,400 was used from this fund this year. Medical iRecord supply decreased toy $150 from $250. Oxygen supplies rose from $1,600 to $3,000 for the coming year. Miscellaneous patient charges char-ges were increased from $1,000 to $2,300. Once again the cost of living liv-ing increase was reflected as the Dietary Department at. the hospital announced am increase of about $2,000 for the coming year. Mr. Hawks stated that food prices pric-es had raised about 12 per cent in. the last year and that raise required the increase. in-crease. ' Roof Repairs Plant operations expenses dropped from $40,000 to $33,-6G0; $33,-6G0; This, decrease is not as great as it seems since an outlay of $13,000 was used for repairing the roof. This expense will not be incurred next year. Housekeeping and Laundry Laun-dry reflected a slight decrease de-crease from $28, 1C0 allocated allocat-ed in 1969 to $25,400 in 1970. The hospital actually used only $25,500 for 1069 and this is the reason for the decrease. de-crease. Administration of the hospital hos-pital required an increase of just over' $l,0CO for next year for salaries. For office supplies the rale raised only $400. Postage charges raised rais-ed from $S50 to $900 for the coming year. Telephone expenses ex-penses raised from $1,200 to $1,700. This is not ar. increase in actual expenditures expendi-tures for the current year. however, which went over budget estimates. Memberships, Member-ships, dues and subscriptions subscrip-tions were lowered $100 to $350 with collection expenses expens-es remaining the same. Slight Insurance Drop A drop in liability insurance insur-ance lowers that figure to $2,500 from the $3,Ct:0 that was allowed during the current cur-rent year. Fire insurance will again cost $2,000 with payroll taxes claiming r.ri additional $17,000 up from $14,530 this past 'year. The state insurance fund will require re-quire an added S"."9 from the $450 listed last year. Hospital health insurance has rflised $2,700. Operating Deficit ..Total operating expenses for the year will be $300,900 which is an increase from the $339,050- of this year. Revenue Re-venue will bring in about $351,000 and this will mean that even with l8ie room rate increase, a $0,000 deficit def-icit is expected. Income fur the next year is based on a 16.5 person average per (lav. This year, the average is just under 16 beds filled per day. To raise money for re painting of rooms, the h'?-pital h'?-pital plans to conduct a fund raising drive near the end of January. |