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Show State to Receive Hospital Data investigation into the hospital situation. Murray presented the commission com-mission with a rough draft of a history of the hospital's situation and four alternative plans of action as determined by them. "We wanted to run this bv you to see if we're proceeding in the right direction. We'd like you to tell us if we're not proceeding proceed-ing the way you'd like and gain some more direction," explained Murray to commissioners. The commission was generally gen-erally pleased with Murray's results but asked him to dig up revenue sources and "get ahead of us on this." Murray's alternatives included inclu-ded renegotiating the AHS contract, converting the facility fac-ility to a clinic, hiring a new managment company or closing clos-ing the hospital altogether. Murray is slated to present a more complete proposal with possible financial options op-tions during next Tuesday's commission meeting. izeth-Kusiak to hand-carry the plans to the state health department on Wednesday. Kusiak indicated he had already tried to contact state officials explaining the plans would be delivered a day late. In related , hospital news, Overthrust Industrial Association Assoc-iation (OIA) consultant Jim Murray gave the commission an update on their separate by Record correspondent Anne Burnett Summit County commissioners commis-sioners have hired an auditor and sent three preliminary hospital remodeling plans to the state health department in response to approaching deadlines set by the state and Advanced Health Systems. Sys-tems. The firm of Andrews of Humas, Salt Lake City has been hired to audit the Summit County hospital's books to determine the value of current assets in preparation prepara-tion of payment of a settlement to AHS upon termination of the group's current hospital management manage-ment contract. AHS has told the county they are terminating their contract as of August 1 at which time they are to be reimbursed for hospital expenses ex-penses amounting to about $900,000. The county commission has hired the auditor to verify that figure and come up with an exact amount prior to negotiating the settlement. in addition, the state health department had set a June 1 deadline to see plans for remodeling the north end of the hospital currently in violation of state hospital health regulations." Park City architect Stanley Johnson worked over the weekend to come up with two remodeling remodel-ing plans that did not include expansion outside existing walls. ,He and hospital administrator, Greg Kusiak, told the commission Tuesday they didn't want to proceed with a third plan involving the outside expansion until they "got a reaction from state officials on the first two." Johnson stressed both plans were preliminary ones but would generally meet the changes requested by the ' state.' Scheme one, as Johnson explained it would cost about $137,000 and scheme two would run about $151,000. Both plans would involve relocating the nurses station, completion of a planned air conditioning and heating system and a change in the admitting and x-ray areas. The first plan would retain 13 of the current 14-bed allotment allot-ment at the hospital, while the second plan would leave 9 beds. The commission, meeting as a hospital board, author- |