Health Care Center Committee

DATE: March 2, 2006

PRESENT: Arthur Carlson, Linda Borleske, Larry Volz, Tom Bychinski, Paul Endres, Jeanne Leeck, Administrator; Katie Pope, Personnel Manager; Lisa Buttonow, Business Office Manager.

1. Called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Art Carlson. The open meeting law requirements were met.
2. Motion by Bychinski, second by Borleske to adopt the agenda.
   Motion carried.
3. Motion by Endres, second by Borleske to approve the minutes of the previous meeting.
   Motion carried.
4. Communications. Memo from Kathy Schauf was read regarding employees calling county board members. Employees need to be referred to their particular grievance procedure depending on the position. Also received a thank you from Reedsburg Senior Life Center for the thank you gift. John Petersen, LPN, received a thank you from a family he wanted to pass along to the board.
5. Public Comment. None.
6. Discussion and consideration of purchasing an autoscrubber. Ron explained the need for the machine and discussed bids.

   Motion by Borleske, second by Endres to approve the bid for purchase of the autoscrubber. Motion Carried

7. Discussion and consideration of purchasing hi low beds. Ron explained the bids for the beds.

   Motion by Endres, second by Volz to approve the bid to purchase hi low beds.
   Motion carried.

8. Jeanne reviewed the donations for the month.

   Motion by Carlson, second by Borleske to approve the donations for the month in the amount of $901.76.
   Motion carried.

9. Administrator's Report. Jeanne discussed the Annual Reports for the Nursing Home as well as the FDD Unit and Farm with the board. The report is a summary of current budget goals and how each department has met the goals. Because of our Quality Assurance meetings our departments have very specific, measurable goals which are applied to this report. Also discussed the Department Updates form which are short term goals for each department. The major change in coming months will be the FDD Unit restructuring as the census continues to drop. We have assimilated every resident we could into the nursing home. Have begun the 2007 budget process with Form 1 information. This has to be completed by April 4 with meetings to follow later in the month. Volunteer Luncheon is scheduled for April 26th at 1:30. Board will be informed as plans are finalized.
10. Personnel Department Report. Katie reviewed the status of job vacancies and employee recruitment activities that have occurred over the past month. Union negotiations are going quite well. Next negotiation dates are March 9 & 10 and 14 & 15.
11. Business Office Report. Lisa reviewed the financial information highlighting items of interest. The financial report change is going to be helpful for this committee. Last month there were some difficulties with numbers, but the format was good. This month the report is better. Things are going well for the department. AR and aging numbers are looking good. We will be under budget for 2005. Thanked the committee for all the hard work put in to the Continuum of Care Committee and the positive outcome. Vouchers were not completed at the time of this meeting.

    Motion by Endres, second by Borleske to approve the vouchers in an amount not to exceed $130,000.00.
    Motion carried.

12. Future of Sauk County Health Care Center. Endres indicated that the timetable for the new committee is tight. Mr. Wenzel is working on setting the new committee. We can feel good about the 21 - 9 vote on the resolution, however there still is a lot of work to do.
13. Next meetings: April 6, May 10, and June 7, all at 8:30 a.m.
14. Motion by Volz, second by Borleske to adjourn.
    Motion carried.

Submitted: Linda Borleske, Secretary