Rural Health Care Board Meeting
The Sublette County Rural Health Care Board voted to approve the Memorandum of Understanding with the Sublette Center at their Special Meeting on Thursday, March 26, 2020. The motion passed unanimously.
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Motion for loan for new CAH
Board member Bill Johnson read the motion to apply for the $23 million USDA loan for the new Critical Access Hospital. The motion passed unanimously.
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Sublette County Rural Health Care District Board votes to apply for $23 million loan for Critical Access Hospital
Approves MOU with Sublette Center
by Pinedale Online!
March 27, 2020
On Thursday, March 26th, the Sublette County Rural Health Care District held a Special Board Meeting in the County Commissioners Room of the Sublette County Courthouse in Pinedale. Due to social distancing restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was live streamed on the Sublette County Rural Health Care District Facebook page. Topics on the agenda were the Sublette Center MOU and the SCRHCD HSA Policy.
The Board made two significant decisions:
- The first motion was to approve the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sublette Center. That motion passed unanimously.
- The second motion was to apply for a $23 million USDA loan for construction on a new hospital for Sublette County, with the loan application paperwork sent in by no later than their self-imposed deadline of April 3, 2020. That motion passed unanimously.
The board said that they had assurances that if voters approve a new Hospital District in November, the loan could be signed over to the new HD. The board hopes that now that these two decisions have been made, donors will start to come in to help towards the costs of building the new Critical Access Hospital. Also, the loan application will need to show that the Board has some working arrangement with another medical facility to help manage the new hospital. The details of that arrangement are still to be worked out as the Board solicits Requests of Interest from area medical service providers.
The meeting was broadcast on Facebook Live and the recording can be found on this Facebook page (under Vicky Marshall’s post). The meeting was short and sweet, lasting just a little over 11 minutes.
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