March 18, 2024

Inpatient services director hired at Skiff

Jan Myers was announced as the new inpatient services director at Skiff Medical Center, one of two new hires for the hospital, at the board meeting Thursday. Zack McNew was also named environmental services supervisor to the hospital.

“(Myers) has wanted to work at Skiff for a long time and this is really wonderful timing because her previous position was in a director roll at Mercy,” CEO Brett Altman said. “Jan will help provide us a link into expertise as well as some human capital in being able to tap into resources. Also, just having an understanding of some of the policies and processes that Mercy uses that ultimately we’ll be adopting as well.”

Myers will be in charge of medical surgery, obstetrics, the special care unit and swing beds. For the past eight to nine years she has been in a management roll as a director in her previous place of work, Altman said.

Three projects came before the board as capital expenses, two repairs and one new purchase. The first is a new crystal for the nuclear medicine machine. The machine performs scans and although it is still in good working condition, a new crystal was suggested at this time.

The second is repairing the chiller loop, which is an emergency repair. The chiller loop provides cooling through out the building and to adequately perform its function the aging pumps will need to be replaced with two new pumps.

“It does effect the OR which is a place that you want to monitor the temperature at all times. With summer coming up, we want to make sure we have it,” CAO Laurie Conner said.

The purchase is a radio frequency ablation machine to help with pain management in the OR. Several machines had been tried for four to six weeks and then chose from there a machine they would like purchased. The purchase for the ablation machine is covered by the foundation and auxiliary but still noted for approval by the board.

In other business:

• Gross revenue for the hospital was down in the month of January but the overall budget still sits at a positive $14,700 for the year.

• Genevieve Langmaid received the Daisy award.

• More than $1,500 was raised through the Pink Nose, Blue Toes 5K held Jan. 24.

Contact Jamee A. Pierson at 641-792-3121 ext. 6534 or jpierson@newtondailynews.com