Gainesville —
North Texas Medical Center board members briefly discussed hospital insurance renewal during Monday’s meeting.
The district’s liability and property insurance renewal is set for Sept. 13, with related proposals scheduled for an August board meeting. HealthSure consulting firm vice-president Brant Couch told the board his firm would prequalify bidding insurance companies to make sure they were financially stable.
He added his firm has saved the district $90,000 during the four years they have been contracted.
“Our job is to make sure that we are going out into the insurance marketplace and finding insurance companies that would appropriately cover the hospital and do their job,” he said.
Couch added the liabilities and potential exposures to legal danger have grown more complex for the average hospital. This includes categories such as kidnap and ransom insurance in the event of an infant abduction. The complexity, he said, makes insurance company selection tougher to navigate.
“We wish healthcare would get easier, but it’s not,” he said. “It’s getting more complicated.”
• Other meeting highlights:
• During the community input section, Rod Tyler criticized district administrators for outsourcing many of its hospital services, including some of its doctors, nurses, emergency room staff, pharmacy, attorneys and campus landscaping crews. He noted the irony in the district’s apparent outsourcing in light of its recent “Get It Done In Gainesville” advertising campaign.
• The board approved capital expenditures of a pneumatic tourniquet, priced at $8,000; a Stryker saw system, priced at $34,907.90; a cafeteria steam table, valued at $7,181.29; and an air cooler and steam table plates, valued at $9,648.22.
• The board approved purchase and investments of two certificates of deposit — one valued at $1,000,000 and invested for a year at Muenster State Bank and one valued at $1,000,000 and invested for two years at First State Bank.
• The board approved medical staff initial appointments for one year of Antonio Asis, MD; Subhas Bose, MD; Chuong Chau, MD; Robin Dobson, MD; Sophia McFadden, MD; Charles Owen, MD; John McDonnold, DO; Meeta Patel, DO; Heather Walsh, MD; Nathan Walsh, MD; Nathan Wright, DO; Muhammad Zulqarnain, MD; the reappointments with status change for two years of Mark Klein, DO; the initial appointment for one year of Allied Health professional Jacob Baker, CRNA and Andrea Damron, CRNA and Allied Health Professional reappointments for two years of Susan Metzler, PT; and Alan Trammell, PT; the terminations of Ambrose Yvonne, MD; Sheila Ross, NP; John Roland, MD; Martin Thorton, DO; and the resignations of John Lewis, MD; Brett McFadden, MD; and Donald Worzburg, MD.
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