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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, February 9. 2000 - Page 5 Health Care spends six weeks out of headlines! It took a Dr. Penn after two San Juan Out On A Limb by Bill Boyle We did it! While health care has been the focus of wide- spread coverage in the San Juan Record for several years, it has been six weeks since it was mentioned in these pages. I was told by a member of the health care community recently that the biggest problem in the San Juan Health Care District is the coverage of health care in the local media. Although that may be oversimplifying things, I understand the sentiment. While it is naive to think that health care difficulties will go away if the local media would go away, I sec that the negative publicity may have caused problems with Naany indication. vajo Nation judge eight months to rule on a motion to grant immediate relief at the clinic. Since January 1, Utah Navajo Health Systems has as- Nathaniel years of practicing in Monticello. Penn, physicians assistant Michele Lyman, and local resident Helen Valdez have threatened a lawsuit of the sumed management against the district. Attorneys Montezuma Creek Clinic, with reportedly may seek class action status for the lawsuit. Singer as manager. New OBGYN Steven The legal flames were fanned even hotter this past summer, was granted tempoof culminating in the departure rary hospital privilege at the Mac-Arth- ur one-ye- ar stone will begin seeing patients at the San Juan Hospital beginning February 21. No news is not necessarily bad news for the proposed private hospiral to be built by Blue Mountain Medical in Blanding. The company ers in the health care community have continued to work hard to provide top quality health care. All of this work has been completed in an environment that would be difficult for anyone. It appears as if the health care district has replaced the school district as the focus of lawsuits. In fact, attorneys may have better job security than anyone else. The $18 million lawsuit filed by Donna Singer and two Montezuma Creek Clinic is moving at a snail's pace. The case could drag on for years if the previous ten months are mid-Decemb- Dr. Mena in Monticello, physicians assistant Blen Free- employee morale. It is clear that local work- other employees at the Hospital, but he did not show up for a February 2 Medical Staff meeting that was set to address the extension of more formal privileges. As a result, MacArthurs privileges have been lifted. Dr. Robert Mena withdrew an application to renew his hospital privilege in The provisional privilege had expired in November. As a result, at the current time there are only three physicians in the county with full hospital privilege: Dr. Val Jones, Dr. James Redd, and Dr. Manfred Nelson. In addition to the practice of an- ticipated having funding sources finalized by January 1. In th2 four years since a pri- vate hospital was first pro- posed in Blanding, the various This weather is great, if you can ignore the storms looming on the horizon. 251 N. MAIN MONTICELLO NEEDLES OUTPOST 587-275- 2 GENERAL STORE organizations behind it have failed to meet most of their deadlines. I Iowever, they continue in their relentless pursuit to obtain funding. The Ute Tribal Council in Towaoc, Colorado recently approved the use of a grant to help fund the facility, contingent upon the tribe holding controlling interest in the project. There is still no official word from the USDA on debt funding for the project. 0PEN 24 H0URS (continued from page 1) ijohnsondo.sanjaun.kl2.ut.us or Debbi (Avery) Bayles, at or send email to 435-678-210- 6, debdo.sanjuan.kl2.ut.us. The Alumni Banquet 2000" will be held on July 3, 2000 at San Juan High School. For the past four years, the Monticello High School Alumni Association has been organizing and planning the Buckaroo Roundup. The first Roundup was help in 1997 with over 350 Buckaroos attending. Only the classes from 1929 to 1960 were formally invited, however a few Buckaroos from later years got the word and attended the Roundup on Blue Mountain. Every graduating class from the first one, 1929 to the most recent one this year, the Class of 2000, is invited to attend. Ail MHS graduates are invited along with anyone who ever attended MHS. Glenice Lewis Mantz, MHS Alumni Secretary said, We feel close to all of our classmates, whether they actually graduated with us or not, so we are inviting everyone who ever went to high school with us to be part of this Roundup. Each of the 71 classes has an official Class Representative who is responsible for keeping their respective tally sheet" up to date. Anyone who wants to know their Class Representative can call the San Juan Record. WILLIAM L. SCHULTZ Attorney At Law Open Year Round DAILY SPECIALS Class reunions 317 S. 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