The Board of Trustees at West Tennessee Healthcare passed seven resolutions during their monthly meeting at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, Tuesday.
The Board resolutions included –
1) The filing of plans and updates and other required documentation with the Tennessee Department of Health, and to correct the deficiencies related to a revision of the fire-stopping requirements, at a cost of $1,275,000 of approved budgeted funds.
2) The repair and renovation of real estate located at 270 East Court Square in Selmer.
In February of 2017, this Board of Trustees authorized the acquisition of assets of Prime Care Medical Center, P.C. and entered into a Real Estate Purchase And Sale Agreement with Prime Care Rental Company for acquisition of 270 East Court Square, Selmer, Tennessee Real Property (“Property”); and, at the end of June 2020 and the beginning of July 2020, extreme weather caused flooding in certain areas of western Tennessee, including in Selmer, Tennessee; and the Prime Care Property sustained water damage during this event; and part of the damaged Property is leased to other medical care providers.
Certain repairs were initiated as soon as possible after the flood waters had receded, resulting in a cost of $91,446.47 to date; and the cost of the remainder of the repairs and renovation for the interior of the Property will be $549,525.03.
The cost to replace damaged furniture, fixtures, and equipment, including personal computers, lab equipment, X-ray equipment, and Mammography equipment will be $396,900.00.
Management has relied on appropriate data as to cost of removing the damaged areas, and renovating and restoring the interior and exterior of the Property, including the purchase of furniture, fixtures, and equipment, and determined that $1,037,871.50 is the total cost of this project.
3) Bulk purchase IP phones for Telephone Infrastructure project
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital District is using legacy Nortel phone system across the organization and the District is on the last supported software release for this system; and the current phone system experiences service interruptions due to its age and due to the unavailability of parts for some of the system.
A new platform is needed to upgrade the telephone system that will consolidate the various elements of the system, offering scalability, collaboration services, and secure voice mail over the WAN; and Management recommends that to ensure access to uninterrupted phone service, the purchase of new phones for the entire project in bulk to take advantage of a 2 for 1 sale opportunity, for a total capital cost of $480,870.00. This will also bring a savings of $450,000 to the total project.
4) Ambulatory EMR Conversion Hardware
In order to make certain that the physician clinics can maximize the use to their electronic medical records and to facilitate the efficient and effective sharing of information for healthcare and operational purposes as permitted by law, certain hardware needs to be acquired to address network and computing needs in advance of a planned ambulatory conversion of the electronic medical records.
The purchase and implementation of Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record Conversion Hardware totals $548,600 of budgeted District funds.
5) The sale of the Real Property by the District to 315 E. Tickle, LLC, pursuant to the terms and conditions negotiated in a Real Estate Purchase And Sale Agreement, approved by the General Counsel, for a price of Two Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($225,000.00), in an “AS IS” condition, without representations and warranties as to the conditions, and containing certain restrictions on future use of the property.
6) The approval of the Laundry Renovation Project and authorizes the President of the District and the CEO of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital to expend District current year capital budgeted funds for the Laundry Renovation Project in the amount of $1,357,841.
7) The President and the CFO are hereby are authorized, empowered and directed by the Board, in the name and on behalf of the District and the District affiliates, to effectuate the necessary capital purchases in order to respond to the needs generated by the pandemic, and to take the actions as may be necessary or appropriate to consummate the transactions contemplated by this resolution, including the approval of capital expenditures that might exceed $250,000, as long as the total expenditures for this purpose do not exceed an additional $5,000,000 necessary documents and agreements.
