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Show Hospital Board Holds Annual Meeting Sixty-three Milford area residents, res-idents, representing 48 organizations, organi-zations, attended the annual meeting of the General Board of the Milford Valley Memorial Hospital Association' last Thursday. Thurs-day. Considerable time was taken up discussing the major en-deaver en-deaver of the association, construction con-struction of a new hospital. Attorney Harold Cline explained ex-plained the legal obstacles facing fac-ing the Trustees of Beaver County Service Area No. 2, which area includes Milford and Minersville. Because the Supreme Court of Utah declared de-clared uncoqstitutional the Civic Auditorium and Sports Arena Act, it is possible that a test case concerning the constitutionality con-stitutionality of the Service Area Act will be necessary. The principles enunciated in the recent re-cent decision concerning the Civic Auditorium and Sports Arena Act might or might not be applicable to the Service Area Act. Mrs. Jacqueline Williams, superintendent su-perintendent of the Beaver County Hospital, submitted a financial report and distributed copies of the report to all per: sons present. The report showed that in 1962 the Beaver County Hospital Hos-pital had an average daily patient pa-tient load of 16.18, 11.72 acute and 4.46 nursing home patients. Total patient days were 4270 Continued on Back Page HERE'S MORE ABOUT HOSPITAL Continued from Page One acute, 1625 nursing home. Of the nursing home patient days, 942 were from Milford, 365 from Beaver, and 318 from Minersville. 565 acute patients were admitted ad-mitted during the year, and six new nursing home patients. The hospital cared for 149 major surgical cases and 47 patients were admitted for minor surgery. sur-gery. In the baby department, it was almost an even break, with 20 boys born at the hospital hos-pital during 1962, and 21 girls Average patient stay (for acute patients) was 7.56 days, and average bed occupancy was 907c The auditor's report showed total operating expenses (including (in-cluding $6 in bad checks and $2400 paid on the hospital mortgage) were $102,815.87, a loss of $4237 over income. This is the first year since the hospital hos-pital was purchased that a loss has occurred. The hospital has $24,911.18 in accounts receivable which have not been paid; owes $9326 on the mortgage, has $12,050 in building fund savings account ac-count and $1604.37 in the Ford Fund savings account. There was objection expressed ex-pressed to the Board of Directors Direct-ors having a "nominating committee" com-mittee" to recommend candidates candi-dates to replace retiring board members. It was pointed out that most organizations do have nominating committees, Roberts Rules of Order encourages nominating committees, and in 1961 and 1962 persons named to the board of directors have been three who were suggested by nominating committees and three who were nominated from the floor after nominating nominat-ing committees had recommended recom-mended other candidates. The nominating committee of the board of directors, Alva Kirk Jr., Wanda Holm and Max Mecham, suggested Selma Kirk, Garnet Garfield and Don Elmer of Milford, Max Price and James Mayer of South Milford, and Naomi Packard of Beaver, to replace retiring members who may not, under the bylaws, by-laws, succeed themselves. Additional Ad-ditional nominations made from the floor were Robert Tomsik, Roy Young, Lamar Lund and Lorraine Gillins. The group elected Garnet Garfield, James Mayer and Naomi Packard. |