Sauk County Health Care Center Board Of Trustees

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Sauk County Health Care Center

1051 Clark Street, Reedsburg, WI

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, December 11, 2014

Members present:  Henry Netzinger, Tut Gramling, Bill Higgins, Terri Langer, Mary Ellen Murray, Joe Fish, and Carol Held

Others present: Kim Gochanour, Theresa Dietz, Dennis Murray   

1.  Meeting was called to order at 5:15 p.m. by Chair Murray and certified compliance with the open meeting law.

2.  Motion by Fish, second by Higgins to adopt the agenda.  Motion carried.

3.  Motion by Langer, second by Held to approve the minutes of the November 13, 2014 meeting.   Motion carried.

Motion by Gramling, second by Held to adopt the minutes from the December 4, 2014 special meeting.  Discussion followed.  Motion to amend item 6 to read: The Visioning Process.  Mary Ellen Murray asked each person attending to list three things that they would see when they walked into assisted living facility.  Much discussion followed regarding structural requirements, amenities, and services that would be provided.  Motion by Langer, second by Fish to accept the amended minutes.  Motion carried.

4.  Public Comment - None

5.  Communication – Kim announced that there will be a blood drive at the Health Care Center on Friday December 19^th.

6.  Discussion of Resolution Commending LaVerne Jones for 26 years of faithful service to the people of Sauk County.  Motion by Gramling second by Held to forward the resolution to the full County Board.  Motion Carried.

7.  Discussion of Home Care transition to the Health Care Center.  Kim shared information on Home Care including the hiring of the Home Care Director, training on Allscripts, space set up, and therapy changes and expansion.

8.  Discussion of Assisted Living. The Board of Trustees will be reviewing information from an updated Wipfli report.  If the report shows that it is feasible to build an assisted living facility, Mary Ellen Murray presented the idea of forming a committee, which could be made up of some of the members of the Health Care Center building committee, to work through the possibility and process of building an assisted living facility.

9.  Business Office report.   Theresa presented the vouchers and highlighted items of interest.  Operations statement and aging were also discussed.

Motion by Langer, second by Higgins to approve the vouchers for the month in the amount of $109,116.94.   Motion carried.

10.  Administrator’s report.  Kim indicated that the usual meetings were attended. Kim reported on the Focus Convention, anticipated retirements, and streamlining admissions.  She also reported that employee appreciation will be on January 13^th, 2014 and that the Health Care Center Foundation is buying food for the employees who will be working on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

11.  Public comment.  None

12.  Agenda items for next month:  Update on Assisted Living and an updated Wipfli study.

13.  Next meeting date is Thursday, January 8 at 5:15 p.m.

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Motion by Netzinger, second by Higgins to adjourn.  Motion carried.

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Mary Ellen Murray, Chairperson