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Bowdle council reviews healthcare center profits, approves staff coverage payment and CT-machine purchase
Summary
The City of Bowdle reviewed January 2025 Healthcare Center finances showing a monthly profit of $43,435.67 and approved a $1,000 payment for short-term staff coverage and acceptance of a low bid to purchase a GE CT machine and related contract upgrades.
The City of Bowdle City Council on March 3 reviewed financial results for the Bowdle Healthcare Center and took several hospital-related actions. Kirby Kleffman presented January 2025 statements showing a facility-wide profit of $43,435.67 for the month and a year-to-date profit of $88,515.29, and said the hospital administration is working with the software vendor to provide more detailed, entity-separated reporting.
After a closed executive session called by Mayor Rick Boschee, the council approved a $1,000 temporary coverage payment to Lindsey Fuller to cover Mary Fischer for one month (motion by Margaret Bobby; second by Mike Gunderson). The council also approved awarding the low bid for a GE CT machine and upgrades to the portable and stationary contracts (motion by Darryn Barnhardt; second by Amber Shaykett). The motions were recorded as carrying by the council following the executive session.
Council then moved to approve hospital payment of claims and February payroll figures. The vendor list included large invoices and insurance payments; notable items on the hospital claims ledger included Wellmark ($84,316.36), Healthcare Services Group ($61,135.93) and McKesson Corporation ($22,572.37). Kleffman also presented a January statistical report showing mixed utilization across service lines (acute up, swing bed down, outpatient visits down, ancillary and rehab services up).
The council appointed Chad Barker, MD, as a Real Radiology provider to the medical staff for a two-year term and reviewed the 2024 total program review along with medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations. The South Dakota Department of Legislative Audit had accepted the audit report, Kleffman told the council.
The council’s next steps for the Healthcare Center include awaiting the software vendor’s updated reporting and proceeding with the CT purchase and related contract upgrades as approved. No specific delivery or contract dates for the CT equipment were specified in the minutes.
