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By Richard Dumas
forsyth@mymcr.net
move will go into effect in
August.
The newest member of
the Hospital Authority, Dr.
Stan Hickman, attended
his first board meeting on
Tuesday, July 23. Hickman
replaced longtime member
Kate Cotton, who stepped
down from the board at the
beginning of the month.
Monroe County Hospital
staffers saw 34 patients on
the first day that the freshly
renovated emergency room
re-opened on Friday, July
19, according to MCH
patient care services direc-
tor Casey Fleckenstein.
MCH interim director of
ancillary services Megan
Randall said the hospital's
total ER renovation is pro-
jected to be completed by
mid-October.
In other Hospital Board
notes:
New Hospital Author-
ity of Monroe County
chairman Mac Brown an-
nounced on Tuesday, July
23 that the hospital board
will move its monthly
meetings from 6 p.m. on
the fourth Tuesday of each
month to 7:30 a.m. on the
fourth Tuesday of each
month. Brown said the
Monroe County
Hospital had another slow
financial month in June,
reporting a $188,000 total
loss.
MCH chief financial
officer Judy Ware said on
Tuesday, July 23 the hos-
pital earned $1.6 million
in gross revenue in June,
representing an average
daily patient census of 9.3
with 733 ER visits. Ware
said June is traditionally a
difficult financial month
for hospitals nationwide.
On the positive side,
Ware said MCH has
experienced a 5 percent
MCH's renovated emergency room iincludes a brand-new
hallway with glistening floors. ' i,
growth in emergency room
volume in 2019 compared
with 2018.
Ware said, "We're headed
in theright direction down
there (in the ER), and I'm
confident that when all the
renovations are complete
and we have all of our
beds open and in service
that we're going to see that
in-patient census go up as
well:
For the first nine months
of the fiscal 2019 year,
Ware said MCH has
incurred a total loss of
$171,000
This
new ER
patient
room was
on dis-
play one
day prior
to 34
patients
visiting
MCH
on the
debut of
the first
stage of
its large-
scale
renova -
tion.
(Photos/
Richard
Dumas)
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