4/29/24 Rotary Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Catti, Adam, Chris, Dave Martin, Trevor, Lynn, Deb, Katie, Ron, Rich, Bob F., Aaron K., Hubert, Ann, Aaron J.
Birthdays/Brag Bucks:
- Doc Martin – Celebrated birthday on 4/28
- Ron – Granddaughter ran in a 50K in South Korea
Money Requests:
- Bandshell
- Merchant’s Park
** We are going to set up programs for each of these requests before we determine how much money to donate to each cause
Speakers: Allen Anderson (President and CEO) and Eric Salmonson (Vice President and CFO), St. Anthony Regional Hospital
- Critical access – approval has been granted by the board; this will help with more reimbursement from Federal on services.
- Currently operating as a 25-bed hospital.
- Medical costs continue to rise.
- Medicaid directed payments – hasn’t increased payment reimbursement in decades.
- Federal government is matching funds that hospitals are paying, and state isn’t matching.
- Physician recruitment:
- Dr. Dirkx – ortho (supplementing Dr. Goding)
- Dr. Johnson (OBGYN)
- Hiring another OBGYN to replace Dr. Svensson (retiring)
- Internal medicine doctor – starting in 2025
- Psych doctors – contracts
- Family practice
- Same day appointments available at the “walk-in” clinic to be seen by the APRN.
- New CT machine is up and running as of 4/29/24.
- Old machine had 1.4 million scans completed on it.
- AHS building (St. Anthony Office Building): will house 60-70 employees once all have been moved; home health, hospice, prior authorization department, IT and IT analysts and the business, accounting, and health information offices will all move eventually which will open a lot of real estate on the 1st floor of the hospital allowing for some renovations to the ER that are much needed.
6 Pillars of Focus for future:
- Financial
- Equality
- Service (Patient Experience)
- Work Force (People)
- Growth
- Community
- Community of health needs assessment focus on chronic care, mental care, maternal care
Next meeting is on Monday, May 6th with CHS Top 10 Seniors as our guests.