By PETER HUSSMANN
The Skiff Medical Center Board of Trustees will again meet behind closed doors to discuss the findings of the recently completed operational assessment.
The board has scheduled a 3 p.m. meeting today to discuss the report.
Last week, the board deferred action on the adoption of an operational budget for the next fiscal year - which begins Wednesday - in order to continue to study the suggestions made in the report by consulting firm B.E. Smith.
At the meeting, the board was presented two budget scenarios, one including the consultant's recommendations and one without. Though limited in detail, the two scenarios projected vastly different financial outcomes (net financial losses of $3.6 million under current operations versus a $742,000 loss with the consultant's recommendations in effect) for the city-owned hospital through the end of the next fiscal year.
The operational assessment was undertaken upon the advice of a Des Moines consultant who gave a scathing review of the hospital's operations after a cursory look following the resignation of Skiff's former administrator. Since that time the hospital's chief financial officer and human resources director have also resigned - and are suing a local doctor for defamation over their resignations - and the chief medical officer has left to take other employment.
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