Show Ogden Holy Cross By VICKI Standard J BARKER s!af WASHINGTON TERRACE — St Benedict's bigger brother from Indiana — Holy Cross system — is taking the smaller health company to the hospital to recuperate from financial upheaval of the past few years And Dan Wolterman the new executive vice president of St Benedict’s Health System expects complications — like a proposal to tax hospitals and how to shut down various nonmedical operations within the system without hurting people But Wolterman is excited about the prognosis He believes that within 18 months “St Benedict’s can be a very healthy organization" Wolterman said his confidence stems from observation that St Benedict's Hospital has a sturdy foundation and plenty of community support — great hopes to tom revitalise St building blocks to start with “We think St Benedict’s developed its reputation and is standing because of its hospital" Wolterman said “We have a reputation for patient care and that’s what we want to emphasize — a facility physicians want to practice in and a place patients would want to come to know i g they’ll be taken care of in a friendly Christian atmosphere" Keeping the main medical facility on its feet is Wolterman’s assignment making him the darling of the hospital But that charge may ultimately brand him the ogre among other operations whose fate he is to determine “My emphasis" said Wolterman “is on downsizing activities like the financial services and ACT (alcohol and chemical treatment centers)” Healthcare Financial Services and have shown net ACT centers profit and are sure value he said But want to be primarily a hospital" Wolterman said divesting the company of subsidiary businesses w ill be a complicated process that will likely take a year to 8 months He hopes that kind of time will allow the company to extend its caring attitude to workers who may lose jobs “We want to treat employees with dignity and social justice in keeping with Catholic values" he said “We are concerned about the employees in this" Describing his experience the Cincinnati Ohio native reveals a gift for financial wizardry combined with solid “people" values He got into the medical field by happenstance he said having earned accounting and business finance degrees But while attending the University of Ohio he began working in the trauma unit at the Children’s Medical Center in “we Cincinnati "There I become intrigued with health care because I was dealing day in and day out with people — not shuffling papers at a desk — and that’s what motivates me" he said As he moved through school he also moved up to management at the center So he enrolled at Xavier University earning a second master’s degree in health care administration which prepared him to head support services departments at St Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa Fla About two years later he was recruited by the Holy Cross system to South Bend to become vice president of medical staff and ambulatory services and after three years head of a new office that analyzed health care trends He became an expert early on about “manage care plans" a generic term he uses for health maintenance and pre ferred provider organizations which swept the nation and now dictate which hospitals survive Holy Cross belie' es its new affiliate has potential to compete successfully for what it sees to be a growing business community that will subscribe to HMOs and PPOs Wolterman said there has been only moderate enrollment in manage care plans in Ogden “As we move down the road more companies and insurance carriers will be moving this way” The tricky part is sealing a deal with a company that accepts religious-basestandards he said Ethical directives by the sponsoring nuns compel Catholic health facilities to pass by disreputable firms or those with incompatible philosophies he explained For instance sterilizations cannot be performed “We can't forget our mission" Nurs$ brings care to her volunteering Local DJ shakes to record By GORDON Classified Obituaries Utah Standcrd-Exarrine- r Saturday Oct 4 1985 By AMY JOI BRYSON Standard Examiner staff LAYTON — Imagine it is your first time in the hospital Think of how scared you may WEEKS staff You gotta give radio announcer Mike Butz a hand He probably wouldn’t take it though be Butz palmed his way through 16615 hands Friday to raise money for the United Way campaign in northern Utah Continental Bank donated $101 to the campaign for every hand shaken by the program announcer of KDAB putting the total contribution for his day’s work at $1678115 Butz met his goal to shake 15000 hands in six hours The record was 12386 hands shaken at the Eastern States Exposition in Massachusetts in 1977 Butz’ first stop during his shake was Weber State College where he grasped 1139 hands during a sprint across the campus His morning announcing partner Charlene Meyer kept count A helicopter then deposited the two at the Ogden Service Center of the Internal Revenue Butz fired as he raced through the crowds in the criminal returns and account-in- g sections “This is the closest I’ve even got to my money!” "This guy’s out to get me — he’s a bone cruncher!” Thirty minutes and 988 grasps later Butz’ right hand was swollen and scarlet “It’s red but it’s still here" he said as he waited to board the helicopter that flew him to Defense Depot Ogden Butz also made appearances at Utah Power and Light Continental Bank Primary Children’s Medical Center and McKay-De- e experiHospital His hands-oence ended in the parking lot of the University of Utah football DJ Mike Butz isn’t stadium And then think about how the nurse makes you feel — how she touches your hand takes your blood pressure and makes everything seem like it would turn out right We Salute Anne RaupSfandard Examiner sure he wants to shake a hand smeared with ink at the IRS office Now think of Carol Bryant a former nurse who applies that same kind of compassion to her volunteer work Bryant a native of North Dakota came to Layton from Colorado two years ago and has been volunteering ever since Her community service includes working for the St Anne’s Center in Ogden where she sorts and distributes clothes She also coordinates a shut-iprogram that schedules visits to people or hospital patients said that during her Bryant medical career she always wanted to go beyond her normal duties as a nurse “The whole thing was having the time to do it While worked I didn’t have the time I needed” Although she has decided to step out of the work force Bryant said her volunteering days still keep her running “I've really grown into the community grown to learn the needs and the culture of the people here” She said that when she first came to Utah it was snowing and she thought of the homeless people — and wanted to help That led her to St Anne’s shelter “Time is a gift and depending on how we use it how we organize it you can get a lot accomplished And the rewards are ‘Time is a gift and depending on how we use it how we organize it you can get a lot accomplished’ — Carol Bryant outstanding” Bryant maintains a goal of being as compassionate as she can She found that while most of the center’s customers come in for food shelter and clothing many just wanted a smile a ray of hope "When I’m hanging up clothes I watch them come in out of the cold weather Sometimes they just need someone to talk to — just like we all do” She admits her work can be frustrating but says she has a philosophy on which she relics “I think it’s on a sign at St Benedict’s Hospital something about caring for you as if they were caring for Jesus Himself After all when Jesus was here He wasn’t at the cocktail parties He was with the people in need with the poor" Time commitment key issue in race for attorney By MARK PETERSON Standard Examiner staff Reed Richards a longtime Weber County public defender said he felt “a twinge of conscience” and decided to run for county prosecutor to make that office more effective Donald Hughes the current Weber County attorney said criminal law leads lawyers to cither be prosecutors or defense atand Richards has torneys directed his career into defense Hughes disagrees that his office hasn’t been effective The two arc in one of the most visible Weber County races in the 1986 general election — lots of signs newspaper advertising and plenty of public speeches Hughes said he is spending somewhere in the neighborhood of $10000 but that includes a primary campaign that Richards did not have to face Richards said he plans to on the camspend who would make the better Weber County attorney Richards said he thinks the job requires involvement in trial work and preparation Hughes counters that administration is the essential element for the office “The main issue has been Don Hughes' performance or lack of I think he’s been involved in other work and not involved in the cases I’ve been there and he hasn’t" Richards said Hughes who personally has tried fewer than a dozen cases in r his tenure said he handles more cases than most county in counties the size of attorneys paign Weber He added that adminisBoth Republican Hughes 37 work and trative investigative 38 Democrat and Richards have work take up most of his hours been piactieing law in the Ogden “If the county attorney doesn’t area for more than 10 years dodo the administrative work ing a combination of criminal ouTI luxe to go out and hire an and civil work Richards also worked for about three years in administrator" Hughes said "The office doesn’t need another Los Angeles supers ising an office deputy (county attorney to handle that concentrated on tax woik Naturally the two disagree over cases) it needs an administrator" Donald Hughes Hughes also said the county attorney’s office is designated as a job although he has lobbied the county commission — without success — to make the job a position w ith a pay level equivalent to a district court judge And in his 1982 campaign Hughes pledged to become a county attorney The job pays $41000 a year District Court judges by comparison earn $54000 annually Richards also has contended Reed Richards there were political motivations behind Hughes’ setting of two capita homicide trials near the end of October — just before the election "The prosecution is not politically motivated but by assigning himself the case it was made political" Richards said “Most of the murder cases are handled by (Chief Criminal Prosecutor William) Daincs" Richards said “Hughes is the one who decided to prosecute these as capital ho micide cases and assigned himself the cases" “The accusation is ludicrous" Hughes responded “Death penalty cases are so unique that I ’won’t delegate the responsibility for the cases to another attorney" He also said both trials were delayed at the insistence of defense He asserted that a attorneys move by Richards’ law partner John Caine to move one of the homicide trials to November after the election was politically motivated “To do it after makes sense" answered Richards who added he did not know if Caine had a political motivation for moving the trial "You have a prosecutor who is focused on the case not on the election" Richards said that as long as the job is part time the county attorney’s first priority should be to the county and if his private practice has to be curtailed heaviso be it ly or cut altogether Richards said Hughes has spent a disproportionate amount of time in his private practice Noting several acquittals in trials and a lack of verdicts in seven capital homicide caves during the past four years Richards also said the county attorney’s office has not been as effective in prosecuting criminal cases as it should be Hughes countered that conviction rates easily can be taken to 100 percent by the county attorney’s office by only filing criminal cases when the attorney believes “beyond a reasonable doubt" that there can be a resulting conviction "I have worked with police departments and promised them that we would try and lock up people who they believed ought to be locked up We arc working on a ’probable cause’ basis — the same basis as police work on in making an arrest that and a reasonable likelihood of conviction" Hughes said While both men took swipes at the other during interviews both said they wanted to run a positive campaign about their own accomplishments and abilities Hughes is running on his record which he said he is proud of and getting the word out with from campaign contributions “friends" Richards said most of his contributions came unsolicited from other attorncjs in town and he is running on his backgiound in criminal law and administration 1 O |