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Show HOSPITAL BOARD MAPS CALL FOR BOND ELECTION IN NOVEMBER By Mrs. Virginia Davis The Beaver County Service Area No. 2 (Western Beaver County Hospital Service Area) was established by the county commissioners on Aug. 5. In general, the area includes all property in West Beaver County west of the Minersville Reservoir. Minersville Town area and farming area were added at the August 5 commissioners' commis-sioners' meeting. Tax notices now in the hands of property owners in the area include a four mill levy for the hospital area. The law establishing service areas permits county commissioners to levy up to 5 mills for service serv-ice area purposes. The Beaver County Commissioners and service area trustees chose to levy only 4 mills of the permissible per-missible 5. A 4-mill levy will add $4 to the tax bill for each $1000 assessed valuation of the property. As a general rule the assessed value of property in Beaver County Is about 15 to 20 of the real value of the property. The money realized in this manner can either be accumulated accumu-lated for a period of time (not to exceed 20 years) to meet the needs of the area or it can be pledged via a bond election for the purposes of the service area. Trustees of Beaver County Service Area No. 2 propose to hold a bond election later this year asking the voters' authority author-ity to sell bonds in the amount of $160,000, to be repaid in 20 years from the 4-mill tax levy. Proceeds from the bond election elec-tion would be matched with Federal Hill-Burton money to construct a new hospital building build-ing for the service area. Location Loca-tion of the new building, if the bond issue is successful, would be on the east edge of the Milford Fairground area, about midway between the Grant Mellor home at the north end of Main Street and the new Utah Highway Commission Com-mission material storage shed on the Delta highway. Trustees are John Grimshaw, J. C. Smith, Howard Pryor and Russel Mayer. A proposal to buy the bonds was made by Continental Bank and Lincoln Ure & Co. of Salt Lake City, for a net effective interest rate of 4.1997. The levy on property in the service area this year has been increased for school purposes pur-poses as well as hospital purposes. pur-poses. In some cases the assessed as-sessed valuation has been changed from previous years. A continuing program of reassessment re-assessment is now in progress. Trustees of the Hospital Service Ser-vice Area feel the need for a new building is critical. The present hospital building was constructed about 35 years ago with the upstairs designated for hospital use and the first floor as living quarters for the doctor. During the past year, making space for patients needing care has been extremely ex-tremely difficult. The 19-bed hospital had an average patient load of 16.2 patients during the month of September. Many times patients are released early to their homes, to make room for a person more critically criti-cally ill. The hospital exists for . the sole purpose of caring for the sick and injured of the area. It is owned and operated by the citizens of the community as a non-profit public service. The trustees feel a responsibility responsi-bility to provide an adequate building to serve the needs of the community. Can we afford to be without adequate hospital facilities? Too many times we take hospitals hos-pitals for granted, by thinking one will always be available. Only when confronted with an emergency do we realize how important our hospitals are and what they mean to our daily lives. Today, one out of every eight persons will require re-quire hospitalization this year. In 1960, 481 persons with acute illnesses were admitted to the Beaver County Hospital (more than one a day) and 18 nursing home patients were cared for there. The acutely ill had an average stay of 6.89 days and the' nursing home patients had an average stay of 62 days. Truly our hospital was used by the people of the area. |