Health Care Center Committee Meeting Minutes

PRESENT: Arthur Carlson, Linda Borleske, Larry Volz, Tom Bychinski, Paul Endres, Jeanne Leeck, Administrator; Lisa Buttonow, Business Office Manager, and Katie Pope, Personnel Manager. Bill McClary, Chief Engineer; and Liz Miller, Volunteer Coordinator were present for a portion of the meeting.

1. Called to order at 8:30 a.m. by Art Carlson. The open meeting law requirements were met.
2. Motion by Bychinski , second by Endres to adopt the agenda. Motion carried.
3. Motion by Borleske, second by Volz to approve the minutes of the previous meeting.
   Motion carried.
4. Communications. Linda received information from a local landowner regarding possible trespassing on his land as well as HCC land. Bill and Jeanne will check into. Linda will also follow up. This item will be included on the agenda for next month's meeting. We also received a letter from former Administrator, Amy Yamriska regarding the information provided to the Continuum of Care Committee.
5. Public Comment. None
6. Liz updated the board on her marketing activities over the past month. Attended the UW-Baraboo Community AT Fair and received some applications. Also had an informational booth at the Reedsburg United Fund kickoff event. We are still included in the Commission on Aging Newsletter. Over $2,000 was raised for the Alzheimer's Walk last weekend. Currently working on getting volunteers to our holiday events. A flyer was sent out to families indicating all of the upcoming AT events scheduled for this fall. HCC retirees were here for lunch yesterday.
7. Bill discussed the progress with parking lot replacement. The Highway Committee felt that the work should be put off until a decision is made regarding the HCC, however this committee gave Bill permission to get bids for some absolutely necessary upgrades yet this fall to improve safety.

   Motion by Volz, second by Borleske to proceed with bids for seal coating two walkway areas and installing a grate at the ambulance entrance not to exceed the carryover amount.
   Motion carried.

8. Jeanne reviewed the donations for August and September.

   Motion by Bychinski, second by Endres to approve the donations for August and September.
   Motion carried.

9. Jeanne has rewritten some Business Office Policies. The state surveyors are currently here. The approximate value of the beds we donated to Sharing Resources Worldwide was $850. The software evaluation team decided to postpone the possible replacement of the Melyx system since Lisa felt the system is now working. Further investigating of the functionality of the system will continue and Lisa will update MIS on any concerns that come up. We are hosting a Lift-Training Symposium today with approximately 20 people including Human Services and Home Health.
10. Personnel Department Report. Katie had to leave the meeting temporarily so Jeanne reviewed the status of job vacancies and employee recruitment activities that have occurred over the past month. We have a CNA class beginning on October 10. Will start looking at the Union negotiation process next month.
11. Business Office Report. Lisa reviewed the vouchers and financial statements highlighting items of interest.

    Motion by Borleske, second by Volz to approve the vouchers in the amount of $162,757.32.
    Motion carried.

12. Future of Sauk County Health Care Center. Paul indicated that the services chart was completed and has been submitted to Department Heads. Will be sent to the committee before the next meeting along with the Columbia/Sauk nursing home comparison. Even though our situations are different some of their suggestions/ideas are very good. Issue is not whether or not we are going to stay in the business, but what other services we are going to provide. With the information from Art regarding nursing homes that have closed in the last 6 years, information on the number of new nursing homes opened up would be valuable. Has the private sector moved in to provide services when facilities close?
13. Next meeting - November 3 at 8:30 and December 8 and January 5 at 9:00 a.m.
14. Motion by Bychinski, second by Volz to adjourn.
    Motion carried.

Meeting was adjourned at 10:15

Respectfullly Submitted: Linda Borleske, Secretary