Health Care Center Board of Trustees

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Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 5:15pm

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REASON FOR MEETING:     Regular

 

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION:

  1. Call to order and certify compliance with the open meeting law
  2. Adopt agenda
  3. Adopt minutes of previous meeting
  4. Public comment
  5. Communication
  6. Election of Officers
    1.  Chair
    2.  Vice-chair
  7. Update on Class and Compensation Study
  8. Home Care Transition Update
  9. Discussion of Assisted Living
  10. Discussion and consideration of  resolutions commending Diane Gade, Michelle Heiser, Rita DelValle, and Rita Lomasney for years of services
  11. Business Office report and voucher review
  12. Administrator’s report
  13. Public comment
  14. Next meeting date and agenda items
  15. Adjournment

 

COPIES TO:

County Clerk       Fish        Higgins      Langer      M Murray      Netzinger     Held     Gramling      T. Dietz       Gochanour     Web Liaison     Schauf      Krueger        

       

 

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Sauk County Health Care Center

1051 Clark Street, Reedsburg, WI

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes, January 8, 2015

 

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

Absent:  Carol Held, Henry Netzinger attended by phone

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 Langer to adopt the agenda.  Motion carried.

 

3.  Motion by Gramling, second by Higgins to approve the minutes of the December 11, 2014 meeting.   Discusion followed.

 

 Motion to amend item 8 to read: Discussion of Assisted Living.  The Board of Trustees will be reviewing information form 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 memebers of the Health Care Center building committee, to work through the possibility and process of building an assisted living facility.  Motion by Fish, second by Gramling to accept the amended minutes.  Motion carried.

 

4.  Public Comment - None

 

5.  Communication – Kim reminded the board of the employee appreciation luncheon on January 13, 2015h.

 

6.  Election of officers of the Board of Trustees

Election of Chair – Chair Murray opened the floor to nomination for chair of the BOT

Motion by Gramling, second by Langer to nominate Mary Ellen Murray for Chair

Second call for nominations – None

Motion by Langer, second by Higgins to close nominations and cast a unanimous vote for Mary Ellen Murray to be Chair.  Motion carried unanimously.

Election of Vice-Chair – Chair Murray opened the floor to nominations for vice-chair of the BOT.

Motion by Higgins, second by Gramling to nominate Joe Fish for vice-chair of the BOT.

Second call for nominations – none

Motion by Langer, second by Higgins to close the nominations and cast a unanimous vote for Joe Fish for vice-chair.  Motion carried unanimously.

 

7. Update on class and compensation study.  Eight positions were appealed. Maintenance, assistant director of nursing and CNA’s won their appeals. Those three appeals affected 68 employees.

 

8.  Discussion of Home Health transition to the Health Care Center.  Kim reported that the Home Care Director has started. Home Care will contract with Achieve Therapy beginning February 1, 2015.  The Home Care Agency is located in the area that was previously the in-service room.

 

9.  Discussion of Assisted Living. The Wipfli report is being updated and should be available for the February meeting.  Chair Murray suggested that a representative from Wipfli should be present at the February meeting.

 

10.Discussion and consideration of resolutions commending: Diane Gade for 21 years of service, Michelle Heiser for 20 years of service, Rita DelValle for 13 years of service, and Rita Lomasney for 33 years of service.

Motion by Gramling, second by Langer to forward the resolutions to the full county board.  Motion carried.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      11.  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 $118,467.41.   Motion carried.

 

12.  Administrator’s report.  Kim indicated that the usual meetings were attended. Kim reported that the annual conference is April 15Th.  Kim has been working with a group on updating county HIPPA policies.

 

13.  Public comment.  none

 

14.  Agenda items for next month:  Update on Assisted Living and an updated Wipfli study, Home Care update, compensation study appeals update, quality assurance indicators presented by Jennifer Vosen Director of Nursing.

 

15.  Next meeting date is Thursday, February 12 at 5:15 p.m.

 

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Motion by Fish, second by Gramling to adjourn.  Motion carried.

 

 

 

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Mary Ellen Murray, Chairperson