JCHC CEO Sean McCallister explained what he had learned from Trevor Moon with North Wyoming Insurance.
Moon told the board that the premium with the current insurance provider in 2020 was roughly $32,000 for property and auto, but their quote for 2021 for just property insurance would be nearly $80,000.
After looking at different insurance providers, Travelers Insurance gave a quote of roughly $80,000 for both property and auto, but with a substantial increase in deductible.
McCallister said there was a need to make a decision, but with the idea to continue looking for a better deal for the facility.
No action was needed by the board.
Johnson County Healthcare Center CEO Sean McCallister, during Tuesday’s COVID-19 Emergency Operations Center briefing, said the facility currently has six inpatients in the hospital, none of which have COVID-19.
Two employees of the facility are currently out, one quarantining due to exposure that does not have the virus and the other that is positive.
He reported that as of Monday they have administered the second doses of the vaccine to the Amie Holt Care Center.
They also have begun to administer the second doses of vaccine to employees that opted to get the first doses last month.
The JCHC will be administering second vaccine doses to the residents of Willow Creek Care Center this week, and assisting Agape Manor.
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There are only 2 active COVID-19 cases in Johnson County and the Public Health Department is reporting that as of yesterday morning, 727 vaccinations had been performed.
During a press briefing yesterday, Johnson County Healthcare Center’s Sean McCallister provided a bit of good news concerning the residents of the Amie Holt Care Center…
During the recent hosital board meeting at the Johnson County Healthcare Center, it was reported that the residents at the Amie Holt Care Center in Buffalo were recently isolated again, but not because of COVID-19.
According to Brenda Gorm, director of nursing at the the AHCC, several staff members and a few residents had gastroenteritis, or stomach flu, likely caused by a norovirus.
The care center has taken the isolation precaution and has taken up more in-depth sanitizing routines to stop or at least slow down the spread.
Gorm also said the residents would be getting their second doses of the coronavirus vaccine this week.
The Medicare Cost Reports that have been performed over the last couple of years for the Johnson County Healthcare Center have been a boon to the facility, netting nearly $2 million in under-payments that have come back to them.
Mark Lyons, with Casey Peterson CPAs, which compiled the reports, spoke to the hospital board of trustees at their recent meeting to explain what has happened over the time they have performed the reviews and how that was a benefit to the facility.
Lyons told the board not to expect returns on Medicare cost report reconciliations in the future like they have recently seen.