The Bradley County Medical Center board met on February 1, 2024, to discuss various items. The meeting was opened with the minutes from December. A motion was made to accept December’s minutes, and all were in favor.
For January the hospital’s volume was up 55 percent compared to December including the senior care department, which was up over 100 percent compared to last year. There was a total gross revenue of $3.8 million, a net operating revenue of $1.8 million, and a net loss of $208,000.00.
Hospital CEO, Leslie Huitt reported that December was a very good month for the hospital in terms of how much had been collected financially. It was reported that the hospital collected $2 million in cash which may be the highest for collections that Huitt has seen since starting at the hospital. The hospital’s cash also increased by $300,000.00 as a result.
The hospital has officially gone live using Meditech and they reported that things are going well in that department.
“There are still considerable things that we are working on but overall, I’d call it a success,” Huitt said.
Huitt also reported that there had been some damage done to the doors at the entrance to the emergency department due to storms that came through a few weeks ago. El Dorado Glass has made a visit to work on the doors, but the time frame to get the doors completely fixed looks to be about 14 weeks and will cost the hospital around $13,000.
It was reported that the hospital had an increase in flu and RSV patients, but those numbers are starting to decrease.
On February 12, the hospital will be hosting a community connect event which had to be rescheduled from January to February due to bad weather. The event is part of the DRCHSD grant and will try to get the community to come together to work on some of the issues that the hospital is seeing.
The board then went into executive session.
The next meeting will be on February 22 at noon.
