Bradley County Medical Center held its monthly board meeting on Thursday, February 29. The meeting was opened with a motion to approve the minutes from the previous month’s meeting. All were in favor.
The financial report was then presented. The hospital’s acute patient days went from 66 previously to 157 as of this month. There was a total gross patient revenue of $4.6 million dollars, a net operating revenue of $2 million dollars, and a net income of $387,000.00 dollars for the month. The hospital’s accounts receivable increase to $1 million dollars for the month. The hospital also added $118,000.00 dollars to their sales tax fund.
Leslie Huitt told the board that because the hospital is now using Meditech, revenue is being captured quicker than before.
“Because it is electronic, there is no more lag time between the paper chart being completed and it going to medical records to be scanned,” Huitt said. “It goes directly into the system when a physician documents it.”
Jamie Wolfe reported that hospital is starting to work through a program with UAMS called TeleSANE. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner or SANE programs play a critical role in supporting sexual assault victims. SANE programs train registered nurses to provide comprehensive health care to survivors of sexual assault.
“This will strengthen us to where we have twenty-four seven coverage in the emergency room,” Wolfe said.
Wolfe reported that even though the emergency room does not experience a high volume of sexual assault cases, it is important to have someone on staff that is trained for and can handle the cases that do come in.
Starting on Tuesday, March 12, the hospital will host a series of educational classes. The first will be a series on diabetes education and will be held at the Brunson Complex from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Leeanna Williams reported that the community connect event that was held by BCMC had a positive impact. The hospital will host another connect event on Tuesday, April 16.
The board then went into executive session.
The next meeting will be on Thursday, March 28.
