Medical Society of South Carolina Meeting Minutes: 1985

              1)	The hospital census has remained extremely high and as of this date is averaging over 300 patients per day. The census in January was the highest it has been in over two years and has remained the highest in February as of this date. Overall hospital operations continue to show a Surplus.
2)	The Audit of hospital operations for the fiscal year 1983/1984 by the firm of Coopers & Lybrand was accepted by the Board at its February meeting.
3)	At the annual meeting of the Board of Commissioners the hospital Administrative staff was reappointed for the year 1985.

Doctor Thomas A. Kirkland, Jr., was elected Secretary of the Board, replacing Dr. Julian T. Buxton, Jr., whose term on the Board expired.

The previous Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs of Services were reappointed for the year 1985, with a change in the Departments of Medicine and Obstetrics-Gynecology. Dr. Charles C. Geer was appointed Chief of the Department of Medicine and Dr. George A. Malanos was appointed Assistant Chief of the Department. Dr. Dahlmon L. Smoak was appointed Chief of the Department of the Ob-Gyn, and Dr. Victor J. Weinstein was appointed Assistant Chief of the Department.

4)	Upon the recommendation of the Department of Medicine and with the approval of the Executive Committee, the Board approved the establishment of a Division of Gastroenterology
5)	Ruscon Construction Company is scheduled to begin work on the replacement of the Parapet Wall of the new South Wing on March 1, 1985. This is in accordance with their $129,000 contract. The contract calls for completion of the work in 100 consecutive calendar days.
6)	A contract has been signed with Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern for the design of the 600-car parking garage. It is anticipated that bids for this job will be received by July 1985, and that construction will begin in August. At the appropriate time we will have to obtain a Certificate of Need.
7)	At a recent meeting of the P-LHSA the application for Roper’s establishment of a home Health Services program, and the purchase of a linear Accelerator was approved. It has since been determined that all interested parties for the Home Health Services Project were not notified and another meeting will have to be held with P-LHSA. The purchase of the Linear Accelerator has recently been approved by the Board of Directors of the P-LHSA for submission to the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) in Columbia.
8)	We have now received notice from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals(JDAH) that Roper’s accreditation survey will be conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 5/6 1985. The Survey Team will consist of the following three members: 1) Milton F-or, M. D., 2) Dexton Whitley, ADM. 3) Josephine Tuzzolo, RN. 
 

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