Name: Rural Health Center Board publishes its planning history and community-input rationale in 2003
Start: 1999
End: 2003-04
Location: Beaver Island

Locator map: Beaver Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Took place at Beaver IslandLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Event

Dates: 1999 – 2003-04
Kind: Publication
Where: Beaver Island
Carried out by: Beaver Island Rural Health Center
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcaregovernancecommunicationcommunitypublication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The BIRHC Board’s April 2003 account traced its planning process from a 1999 task force and community forum through parent and aging focus groups, a 2000 survey, a 2001 assessment, a 2002 sizing study and donated land, design revisions, and the November final plan. It invited residents to attend monthly meetings and review the documented planning record.

Evidence limits

This is the Board’s retrospective account of its own process and should be read as an attributed institutional explanation, not as an independent audit of participation or decisions.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 2003, “The new BIRH Center.”
Summarizes the 1999 task force, community forum, surveys, 2001 assessment, 2002 sizing study and land gift, design changes, November final plan, and the Board’s invitation to attend monthly meetings. 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 2003, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the April 2003 report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Rural Health Center Board publishes its planning history and community-input rationale in 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-rural-health-center-planning-process-response-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2003, “The new BIRH Center.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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