Hospital District receives $1 million grant from USDA

POMEROY–The Garfield County Hospital District Board of Commissioners (GCHD) received a $1 million grant from the United State Department of Agriculture. In other business, approved a blanket warmer purchase; a recruitment scholarship policy; and bylaw revision.

The USDA grant for $1,000,000 will be used for infrastructure and moratorium upgrades, with any leftover money used for prioritized additional projects.

The board approved the purchase of a blanket warmer for hospital residents, at the request of the HUGS program. The warmer will cost $6,014.12.

The board passed a recruitment scholarship policy that offers to pay half of tuition up to a certain point in return for two to four years of work at the Garfield County Memorial Hospital. The board also passed a change to their holidays policy to include Juneteenth and two unpaid religious holidays. Also passed at the meeting was a revision to the bylaws including a board training addition.

The employee appreciation council’s “Flamingo” fundraiser has begun to ‘flock’ employees with plastic Pink flamingos. The ‘flocked’ employee can pay to have them removed, to ‘flock’ another employee, and to receive insurance against being ‘re-flocked’.