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Citizens for Alternative Solutions

It’s about healthcare
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Agenda
Presentation to the Board of Directors

1. Objectives
• Short-term • Long-term

2. Savings through reorganization (Ruud Roeleveld)

3. Sustainability (William Patchett)

• Revenue generation • Investments in fund raising

4. Open to questions

5. Summary
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CAS goals:

• More with less, not less with less

• More community involvement in our hospital

• More ideas and alternative solutions

• More money—from savings & revenue

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Not opposed to:

• CAS accepts the target of balanced budget

• CAS not against iLTC and ALC beds outside the hospital

• CAS not against moving diabetes to equivalent alternative

facility

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For:

• CAS wants to retain needed services for our aging

community
• Out-Patient Rehabilitation

• Create enough savings to reinstate the Out-Patient Rehab.

• Develop new ways of increasing revenues to answer long-

term revenue short falls (all hospitals facing this reality)

• Develop new ideas—“Think outside the box” vs. accept

the “cards we have been dealt”

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• “Mixed feelings”

• Short-term objective:

More feet around the beds, fewer under the desks

Ruud Roeleveld

• Long-term objective:

Maintaining our great hospital and healthcare

William Patchett
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In summary
Four questions for the Board and our community:

1. Can we not do more with less, not less with less?

2. Do we want more community involvement in our

hospital?

3. Can we not have more ideas and alternative solutions

versus the status quo in operating our hospital?

4. Can we not find new ways to increase both savings and

revenues?
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• Question period—open to the floor