Governing Beaufort County | Eastern NC Now
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The WDN asked me to match up the county's calendar year debt service obligation with the annual lease payment amount that I wrote into the recent lease.
Published: Thursday, December 16th, 2010 @ 12:10 am
By: For Public Consumption
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As most people in Beaufort County realize, the Hospital Board is considering several proposals related to the Hospital. Two of those proposals involve the real estate.
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Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage started a discussion at Monday's board meeting that may end in providing some relief for county property-tax payers.
Published: Friday, December 10th, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
By: BCN
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The health care market in Dare County is split, but controlled by UHS but UHS was not willing to use locally generated profit to support the system serving the entire county.
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Richardson's motion proposed: Commissioner McRoy and Commissioner Klemm exclude themselves from voting on future items regarding Beaufort County Hospital due to their conflicts of interest.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 @ 2:54 pm
By: BCN
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The winning candidates for commissioner, all incumbents, were sworn in by Beaufort County Clerk of Court Marty Paramore, who administered the Oath of Office.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2010 @ 9:07 pm
By: BCN
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, December 6, 2010.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 @ 10:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has been reported that some employees of the system contacted the N. C. Department of Labor and the board was advised that the Labor Department had ruled that such action was illegal.
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Beaufort Regional Health System Chief Financial Officer Dick Reif submitted to the hospital board an Interim Financial Statement for the fiscal-year ending Sept. 30, 2010, at a special-called meeting.
Published: Saturday, November 20th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
By: BCN
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The Beaufort Regional Health System has begun negotiations with outside organizations that have submitted proposals to take over the Heath System (Hospital) totally or to take over the management.
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Community Health Systems is once again a potential affiliation partner for Beaufort Regional Health Systems and will be active in the negotiation process, which could begin Nov. 8.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
By: BCN
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The reason the Health System is in its current predicament is because of poor management and a board that has been unwilling to make the hard decisions to cut expenses.
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But only 22 spoke and most of those said the same thing: Merge with University Health System (UHS) and the sooner the better.
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According to the experts hired by the board to assist it, those negotiations are expected to be "intense." The board is seeking comments on what should be negotiated and the priorities the boa
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The Beaufort Regional Health System hospital board will be seeking input from BRHS medical staff and the general public regarding the contents of five bids for affiliation.
Published: Saturday, October 16th, 2010 @ 3:27 pm
By: BCN
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With those who were on the fast-track to lease or sell the local hospital down from power, the new Beaufort Regional Health System hospital board will be changing its endgame.
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 @ 12:21 pm
By: BCN
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, October 4, 2010.
Published: Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As full-time CEO, Gerard will relinquish the post of medical practice administrator.
Published: Thursday, September 16th, 2010 @ 5:21 pm
By: BCN
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Riggs' resignation came just three months after the ex-BRHS Chief Executive Officer Bill Bedsole resigned his post.
Published: Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 @ 10:17 pm
By: BCN
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All members of the BRHS Authority Board of Commissioners seem to agree that the primary reason for the income shortfall in 2010 was the loss in patient volume.
Published: Friday, September 10th, 2010 @ 2:31 pm
By: BCN
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners applied quite a bit of muscle to firmly center Beaufort Regional Health System on the dual track to recovery, at its general meeting on Tuesday.
Published: Thursday, September 9th, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
By: BCN
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Deatherage was the only commissioner to vote against the resolution on the grounds that spending $250,000 to scientifically prove the obvious would be wasteful.
Published: Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 @ 9:57 pm
By: BCN
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If Beaufort Regional Health Systems is going to merge, it now officially knows its options.
Published: Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 @ 1:26 am
By: BCN
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All six BRHS employees who spoke were vehemently in favor of merging the small community hospital with another larger institution.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 @ 6:46 pm
By: BCN
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In four days, Beaufort Regional Health System will know, for sure, which of the 14 institutions that expressed interest in leasing the hospital are actually potential future partners.
Published: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 @ 5:10 pm
By: BCN
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Press Release for immediate release concerning the management of the Beaufort County Medical Center.
Published: Friday, August 27th, 2010 @ 3:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This distinction is especially notable, in that only 12 of North Carolina’s 100 counties managed to earn an ‘A’ in government growth for the first decade of the 21st Century.
Published: Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 @ 4:16 pm
By: BCN
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Concerns regarding methods for transitioning revenue into cash led to a confusing exchange between Cost/Containment Committee members and BRHS Chief Financial Officer Chris Riggs.
Published: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 @ 8:08 pm
By: BCN
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The BCMC Board of Trustees made a leap of faith at its meeting Tuesday toward bringing in a company to help the hospital implement a Clinical Documentation Improvement Program.
Published: Friday, July 30th, 2010 @ 11:30 am
By: BCN
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, August 2, 2010.
Published: Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The hospital and the county shook hands today on a deal that will provide the hospital with the means to pay its debt service to the county and have operating capital.
Published: Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 @ 10:40 pm
By: BCN
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For the moment, Beaufort Regional Health System seems to be making some real progress down the much-debated dual-track approach to saving the Washington-based hospital.
Published: Sunday, July 25th, 2010 @ 5:21 pm
By: BCN
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The Beaufort County Board of Education, meeting in a special "workshop" session Friday (7-23-10) focused its discussion on next year's (FY11) capital outlay budget
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Second in a series on the Hospital and the Beaufort Health System
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