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Clinic director warns of payroll overages, emergency-room losses and seeks grant relief
Summary
Director Wahl told the Dahl Memorial Clinic Finance Committee that salary and locum costs are exceeding budget targets, that the clinic is losing roughly $4,200 a day in the emergency room under current billing rules, and that staff have applied for transformation and trust grants to mitigate the shortfall.
Director Wahl, the clinic director, told the Dahl Memorial Clinic Finance Committee on March 17 that the clinic’s salary and locum-provider expenditure lines are higher than planned and require further investigation. She said the city’s monthly sales-tax transfer — the clinic’s operating subsidy — is about $400,000, the HRSA 330 grant arrives quarterly at $297,745, and the clinic is carrying about $1.4 million in grant proposals that are not yet awarded and therefore not counted as firm revenue.
Wahl said billing constraints for emergency-room services are a major driver of losses. "We're all aware we can't bill for much of the services…
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