Hospital District Happenings

There is no single over-arching theme today, but rather a collection of bits and pieces of news, mostly good.

First: the state Healthcare Authority did an audit of our Electronic Health Records payments, and found that they still owe us some $308,856.18. We don’t yet know exactly when and how we are to receive that money, but it should be fairly soon now that they have the data.

When healthcare facilities were essentially required to move to Electronic Health Records, we were given financial incentives that amounted to nearly full coverage of our costs, provided we met specified “meaningful us...