October 2004 Newsletter
The
hospital’s construction project is still on schedule and at budget. Steel is
about to be installed and concrete poured at the new canopy entrance, and gravel
is being installed and graded in preparation for the pouring of the main slab
under the new building area.
The Board of Directors of the Washington County Memorial
Hospital Foundation met again Tuesday, October 12th.
The Foundation has now been officially established as a
Missouri
non-profit corporation. At the
meeting October 12th, the Board determined that Ronald Pierce is the
President and Charlotte Boyer is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Foundation’s
Board. Other board members of the initial board are Susan Huff, Jon Turner, and
Carl Shellabarger. The bylaws call for a board of not less that five (5) nor
more than fifteen (15) members.
The hospital’s Radiographic & Flouroscopic room
renovation is expected to be completed by October 26 so the installation of the
new equipment can begin on schedule.
The new exterior entrance and connecting corridor at
Healthway Primary Care is nearing completion. Completion is expected by the end
of the month.
Dr. John Listerman will no longer be able to come to
Potosi
to work at Austin Plaza Primary Care on a regular basis after
October 22, 2004
. He has provided good care and
continuity for the practice and we will miss him.
We will continue to consider options for temporary coverage with our goal
still being to establish another physician full-time at Austin Plaza Primary
Care.
Washington
County
Memorial
Hospital
was featured on the cover of the current issue of the Missouri Hospital
Association’s “Inside Connection” magazine.
Photographs of the hospital’s construction project and groundbreaking
ceremony were published as well as excerpts from comments by the Administrator
about the hospital’s project. The
featured article was about Critical Access Hospitals.
A national shortage of flu vaccine has occurred this year,
with tremendous related publicity.
Washington
County
Memorial
Hospital
did receive its entire order, and most organizations and offices did not.
The hospital has received many inquiries for vaccine or for flu shots,
and we have had to be cautious with our supply, limiting it to hospital
employees, established clinic patients, and certain legitimate high-risk
patients.
A new electrosurgical unit with argon plasma coagulation to
give the most advanced clinical capabilities to enhance our gastrointestinal
procedure services has been added at
Washington
County
Memorial
Hospital
Washington County Memorial Hospital Director of Nursing,
Cyndi Basler hosted a meeting of the
DON's from the South East district of Missouri meeting at the hospital.
Ms. Basler is the president of the SEMO district.
