Name: BIRHC Board reviews finances, operations, and Health Center systems, March 20, 2004
Start: 2004-03-20
End: 2004-03-20
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-03-20
Kind: Meeting
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcaregovernancecommunitytechnologycommunicationconstruction
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The BIRHC Board met on March 20, 2004, to review the Health Center’s financial runway, billing systems, staffing, patient volume, surveys, defibrillator needs, propane costs, and a construction omission affecting Dr. White’s lines.

Operations

The Beacon reported that remaining construction-grant money could support operations for roughly another year and a half, while projected expenses were expected to exceed income. The Board discussed Medisoft, outsourced billing, monthly financial reports, and the changing mix of resident, visitor, and seasonal patients.

Evidence limits

The newspaper’s account is not an audited financial statement or the Board’s minutes. Patient statistics and financial projections remain reported figures from the article.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 2004, "Health Center Board Meeting."
Reports the BIRHC Board's financial outlook, billing and collections, Medisoft software, outsourced billing, patient loads, surveys, defibrillator grants, propane use, staffing, and a construction line omission. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, April 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the published health-center report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “BIRHC Board reviews finances, operations, and Health Center systems, March 20, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-birhc-board-meeting-march-20-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2004, "Health Center Board Meeting." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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