MADISON COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL HOSPITAL MISSION: "To enhance the quality of life by continuously improving the health of the people of our community." THE FOLLOWING ARE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MCMH DURING 2007 REPORT CARD TO THE COMMUNITY MONEY S (Through the efforts of Madison County Community Bank) Received a $450,000 loan from the Florida Office of Trade Tourism and Economic Development earmarked for debt re-structure and a computer server upgrade. Restructured operations resulting in Medicare reimbursing the hospital $233,000, and increasing annual payments by another $233,000. Reduced $252,000 in annual operating expense. S Received $186,000 ingrant money usedfor capital improvements including the technology upgrades listed below: TECHNOLOGY S* A $60,000 digital imaging system purchased with grant money. * A $30,000 mammography processor purchased with grant money. * A $40,000 computer-controlled pharmacy system purchased with grant money. A new $47,000 telephone system, awaiting installation. $36,000 of which was funded with grant money. A $7,000 special bed scale purchased with grant money. A $2,000 medial diagnosis software purchased with grant money. A $79,000 laboratory coagulation analyze uded tough..atalease A i6- slice CT machine funded with operating funds. A $11,000 projectto renovate 10 patient rooms fundedwith grant money. S Contracted for the use of computer-aided-detection services to detect breast nodes too small for the human eye to see. PEOPLE Three new Board Members appointed by the governor Reverend Oliver Biadley, Howard Phillips, Jim Sale Employee salaries have been made more competitive by aligning them to the 2007 Florida Hospital Associations Annual Salary Sur vey. New managers for the departments of: Admissions, Business Office, Dietary, Finance, Maintenance, Nursing. A Board-certified family practice physician has been recruited and employed to work with a well-credentialed physician assistant, at the Four Freedoms Health Center. Vicki Howerton, a community relations coordinator employed to improve communications between the hospital and the families it .,serves. SERVICES Weekly hours of Physical Therapy increased from about 20 per week to about 80 per week. A physician was employed and assigned to the needs of the Nursing Restoration Program (swing-bed) and its patients. Working with a neurology group in Tallahassee to implement a Stroke Prevention program that should decrease the time from stroke to neurological intervention by about one hour. OTHER * Partnered with Big Bend Hospice to designate a room, renovated by BBH, to be reserved for their hospice patients. Land has been procured for a new hospital construction site. I_ www.greenepublishing.com The Madison Enterprise-Recorder 7A Friday,January 18, 2008