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... ..The Summerville News, Thursday, June 16, 1988
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Purchase Offer Mulled By
Members Of CCH Panel
Management Contract Proposed For $7,000 Monthly
The Chattooga Coux;:{
Hospital Authori:g' this w
is continuing to study a firm
proposal by an Atlanta com
.pany to manage and then Bur
chase the hoofiital and Oak
View N“t‘ififi ome.
Ken Williams and Dale
Mulder of Ken Williams and
Associates, Atlanta, made the
presentation to the panel at a
called meeting last week. The
firm said it would manage the
facilit‘g‘r for $7,000 per month
and the purchase price would
be determined after inspecting
the facilities, inventory, ac
counts payable and accounts
receivable.
PURCHASE
His firm isn’t interested in
managing the hospital without
a commitment from the
Authority to sell the hospital
nursing home complex,
Williams said. He also express
ed reservations about the
wisdom of incurring a
$1.47-million debt to expand
Oak Viewtelg' 63 beds.
He noted that the Farmers
Home Administration, which
has committed funds for mak
ing a loan for the project, will
require that accounts for both
facilities be separated on July
1. That apparently prevents
grofits from the nursin% home
om being used to subsidize
hos&ital operations.
illiams asked the
Authority to reconsider its
commitment to building the
addition and incurring the ad
ditional debt. However, Sherri'
Bishofi,ea member of the panel,
said the project had srogress
ed too far to reconsider.
Even with that problem,
Williams said his firm was still
interested in managing and
then buying the hospital.
COMMITMENT
The Authority must be
committed to a lonfiterm solu
tion for the hospital, Williams
o v Judiment day is at
hand for your hospital.”
The communi?' must also
be made aware of the advan
tages of hospitalization in
Chattooga, rather than in
Rome or Fort Oglethorpe, he
said.
City and county officials
also must be committed to a
short-term solution before a
longterm plan will work, he
noted.
Local financial institutions
must also be committed to pro
viding interim funds im;
mediately to make some im
provements at the hospital,
said Williams.
The Authority must also be
committed to efficiency, the
hospital consultant said. For
example, if his firm finds that
the hospital and nursing home
are overstaffed, it must%e will
ing to make adjustments prior
to purchase and during the
period of time that Wx;fiiams
and Associates is in charge of
its management, he continued.
“ELATED”
The hospital has communi
ty support, Williams said, in
noting a turnout of almost 500
people at a mass meeting at the
courthouse on May 24. A con
census was expressed at the
meeting that the hospital
should remain open. “I was
elated at the town meeting,”
Williams said.
Mulder, who inspected the
hoslfiital’s records, staff and
facilities for Williams, praised
the “fine staff’’ at the hospital
and Oak View. Although the
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BY ALABAMA AND U. S. DEPTS. OF AGRICULTURE
June 14, 1988
RECEIPTS THIS WEEK — 1,276
RECEIPTS LAST WEEK — 1,168
RECEIPTS YEAR AGO — 979
FEEDER CLASSES
BULLS & STEERS (GOOD & CHOICE):
200-300 pounds — 98.00-120.00
300-400 pounds — 87.00-112.00
400-500 pounds — 81.00-95.00
500-600 pounds — 72.00-83.00
STEERS:
600-800 pounds — 62.00-71.00
HEIFERS (GOOD & CHOICE):
200-300 pounds — 86.00-100.00
300-400 pourids — 78.00-88.00
400-500 pounds — 74.00-81.50
500-600 pounds — 70.00-76.00
600-700 pounds — 63.50-68.00
y ' SLAUGHTER CLASSES:
CALVES (GOOD & CHOICE):
68.00-74.00
Utilty — 47.00
tility — 47.00 Down
Cutter — 43.00 Down BULLS
Canner & Culls — 41,00 Down Heavy — 54.00 Down
There will be No Sale on July 5,
manual stysr.em of ker?ing
track of financial records is
“‘very archaic,”” Mulder said,
“it works' and is ‘‘well done”
by the hospital staff. The ex
ecutive, who is chief operating
officer for Williams, cited the
commitment of the medical
center's experienced staff.
Chattooga has ‘“‘a very
vibrant community” and it
needs “a vibrant hospital,”
Mulder said. Williams and
Associates can deliver on mak
ing the hospital efficient and
keepin% it open, he said, “‘but
it won't be easy.”
MORE DOCTORS
A key need is to bring more
doctors into the community,
Williams said, and a public
relations campaign directed
toward encouraging supporters
of the hospital to use it when
they need to be hospitalized.
While a feeling of supgort for
the hospital exists in the coun
ty, Williams continued, it must
be translated into action.
Mrs. Bishop expressed con
cern about having the hos(f)ital
bought and then closed down
in a few months by the
purchaser.
“It won't happen,’”’
Williams said. His is a refiative—
ly young company and its
reputation is its most impor
tant asset, he added.
PAYMENTS
If the Authority agrees to
a management pm}filosal with
an option to b:ly. the pur
chase funds wouldn't be paid at
one time, Williams continued.
A down payment would be
handed over to the Authorit
when the contracts are signec{
and that money — by law —
woulgego into a trust fund to
be used to pay indigent care
costs.
The contract proposal also
says that the company
wouldn’t pay any more money
into the trust fund for two
years while it worked to make
the hospital profitable, to im
proge its physical flaciliti%. and
to bring more physicians to
Summerville.
It could be around seven
years before sufficient monies
would be paid into the trust
fund before it becomes large
enough to produce enough in
terest income or revenue to
take care of all indigent care
costs, Williams indicated. Dur
ing that time, local cities and
counties must take care of
those indigent care costs, he
indicated.
ER PACT
The Authority should also
“stronglfl reconsider’’ its con
tract with Spectrum Emer}gen
% Care Inc., Tampa, Fla.,
illiams said. It provides
24-hour, seven-day emergency
room service at the hospital at
a cost of some $37 per hour.
Williams suggested that
the hospital hire its own physi
cians to handle the emergency
room service after consulting
with local doctors.
Called Meet
Chattooga County’s Board
of Education will hold a called
meeting at 8 p.m. Monday. The
meeting will be at the school
board’'s offices on Bolling
Road.
Tentative approval of a
budget for next year is the
main item of the agenda. The
board will also discuss teacher
resignations and hiring
recommendations.
Most Authority members
agpeared to look with favor on
the Proposal after Williams and
Mulder left the meeting.
Katherine Cami. chairman
of the panel, said that the two
proposed contracts, one for
management and the other a
purchase agreement, would be
referred to attorneys Carlton
Vines and A. A. Farrar Jr. for
study before the Authority ar
Oak View Project
Begins This Week
Contract Signed Tuesday Evening
from front page
February.
BANK
The First National Bank of
Chatboo%a County is providing
the construction financing for
the massive project and the
federal Farmers Home Ad
ministration has committed
$1.47-million in permanent
financing for the addition.
Present for the signing
Tuesday were Mrs. Bishop,
Mrs. Camp, Fones; Rita Nave,
corporate secretary of Tri-City;
Authority attorney Carlton
Vines, Rome architect M. G.
Turner and Bobby H%good,
an Authority member. Eugene
McGinnis and Ira Pollarg dJr.
were the only Authority
members not present.
SPECS
When completed, the
14,808-square-foot building will
contain 30 two-bed rooms,
three private rooms, two nurs
ing stations, employee lounge,
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Leadership Chattooga Graduates
The charter class of Leadership Chat
tooga held their graduation Friday even
ing at Riegeldai Tavern. The group
received plaques for their participation in
the program which is sponsored by the
Chattooga County Chamber of Com
merce. Pictured are front row, left to
right, Eula Amos, Sue Spivey and Pam
Purcell. Second row, left to right, Ronnie
Winters, Spankey Finley, Teg Clark and
Fire Station Isn’t
In Prison Contract
A fire station promised for the Hays
Correctional Institution at Pennville is not
contained in the current contract with
Carlson Southeast Corp.
John Siler, %Jblic information director
for the Georfiila epartment of Corrections,
confirmed this week that the fire station
was deleted from the Carlson contract
because the low bid was some SBOO,OOO
over the $23,000,000 that had been
allocated for the project.
However, Siler said, the fire station con
struction contract will be awarded after the
Georfia General Assembly is asked for
supplemental funds for the prison project
in early 1989.
Tha fire station remains in the ‘‘master
rives at a decision. Members of
the Authority, who also were
presented with copies of both
contracts, also will consider the
proposal, she said.
COMPANIES
If approved, the manage
ment agreement would be bet
ween the Authority and
Brookwill Medical Corp., a
wholly owned subsidiary of
kitchen and dining area and
treatment room. It will be built
on the north and west sides of
the existing Oak View
buildingl.
Architect Turner said Tues
day that only two trees will
have to be removed and one of
those is already dead. Efforts
will be made to relocate the
small Christmas tree in front of
the current Oak View entrance,
the architect added.
FOUR YEARS
Planning for the addition
began four years aio but the
possibility that the dream
might become reality came
sharper into focus in the fall,
1986, when SHPA issued a
one-Eyear certificate of need.
fforts to obtain financing
for the project weren't im
mediately successful and the
Authority successfully sought
a six-month extension to
March of this year. When it
became clear that all the
FmHA paperwork on the pro
Eddy Ellenburg. Third row, left to right,
Stan Burrage, Marty Brown, Bill Gilbert,
Terry Adams, Herb Skelton and Bill Tut
ton. Back row, left to right, Jim Parker,
Gene Es;(?', Walt Denero of the J. W. Fan
mné Leadership group at the University
of Georgia, Dan Logan, Russ Jennings
and Dicil Tanner. Graduates not shown
are Sam Freeman, Butch Eleam, Barbara
Reece and David Daniel.
plan” for the 750-bed prison, Siler said, and
it will be open when the prison is completed
in February, 1990.
The public information official also said
the DO% could allow more than one con
‘tractor on the prison site at one time.
Previous reports had indicated that only
+“one contractor could be on the site at a
time.
“It’s a necessity,’’ Siler said of the fire
station, which would be manned by state
trusties, and would serve the Pennville
community.
The timetable and logistics for the fire
station are being worked out by the state,
Siler said.
Williams and Associates,
Williams said. A purchase
agreement would be between
the Authority and Williams. If
bouTht, another corporation
would then be established to
own the Chattooga Hospital
and Oak View Nursing Home,
Williams said.
There was no indication
when the Authority would
make a decision.
ject couldn’t be completed by
that date, the panel o%tained a
90-day extension to June 19.
Several problems with ob
taining approval from various
state agencies for the plans and
completing last-minute FmHA
requirements seemed to %lace
the project in danger. Each
time, however, a solution
reached and bids were opened
on May 26.
EXHAUSTED
Signing of the contract
Tuesday evening appeared
almost anti-climactic to Mrs.
Camp and Mrs. Bishop. They
said they had been under so
much tension during the past
several months that bringing
the project to the construction
stage had left them exhausted
emotionally.
And both Mrs. Bishop and
Mrs. Camp revealed that they
were burdened with unspoken
doubts that the addition might
never be built.
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Three motorists were injured in a three
vehicle accident on Lyerly Highway at
South Penn Street and Highway 100 on
June 8, said Summerville pol{ce Sgt.
Larry Bennett (left writing report). Chief
Arlen Thomas and members of the Chat
Summerville Bypass Meet
from front page
the multi-lane widening of
U. S. 27 would occur along the
highway all the way into gum
merville. A hearing on the pro
ject was held at gummerville
Ci:]y Hall and maps along the
wall showed the rights-ogway
that the DOT would require
from each property owner.
CHANGE
However, Moreland retired
and when Hal Rives became
DOT commissioner, he said in
Summerville that the DOT had
never planned to widen the
highway to four or five lanes in
to Summerville. Instead,
because of earth slides along
the current roadway on
Taylors Ridge, the DOT had
o¥ted for a bypass from the top
of the ridge to just north of
Trion, he said. The DOT would
widen U. S. 27 to three lanes
from the west foot of Taylors
Ridge into Summerville and
widen the bridge over the Chat
tooga River, Ee said.
Most Summerville officials
expressed disappointment at
that time with Rives’ decision.
EXTENSION
The DOT is currently ob
taining rights-of-way from the
current end of the five-lane at
Russell Airi)lort in Floyd Coun
ty to Highway 156 at Ar
muchee. But construction on
that phase of the project isn’t
expected to begin until late
summer, 1989. The stretch
from Highway 156 to Taylors
Ridge is still in the concept and
design stage and the state isn’t:
expected to start obtaining
rights-of-way until sometime in
1990 at the earliest.
BYPASS?
The DOT apparently plans
to build bypasses around
towns on U. g 27 before widen
ing the main stretches of road
way between the towns. Con
struction of a l:;i'pass east of
LaFayette is already under
way.
Rives has said an increase
in the state motor fuel tax will
be required to con;f)lete the
DOT's developmental highway
system.
viayor Cash said he and
Grady McCalmon, city
manager, plan to attend the
hearing next week. He said
Hug%ins and Crawford would
also be asked to participate in
the meeting on the b fpass.
Other interested local ofy icials
are also welcome to attend, he
indicated.
“POSITIVE”
Although Cash indicated
frustration with Crawford,
Huggins and Rives, he main
tained that ‘‘something
positive” might come out of
next Tuesday’s meeting. It was
unclear from Danchetz’ letter
how much public comment or
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input would be accepted next
week, the mayor said.
He also noted that the city
didn't receive a letter of
notification about the session
until Tuesday, only a week
before the hearing.
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tooga County Emergency Medical Service
are shown in the same photo removinfi
one injured person from a vehicle. A
three were taken to Chattooga County
Hospital for treatment. (Stafg Photos).
not widening U. S. 27 all the
way into Summerville as was
first planned, Cash said,
Crawford and Huggins should
have been working to get the
Chattooga River bridge widen
ed and the roadway from
Tahylors Ridfe into S{xmmer
ville widened to three lanes.
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