Tuesday, October 14, 2008

More prices

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On my way to a strategic planning meeting, I drove by the local gas station. Prices have dropped to $3.46. We are still VERY proud of our gas, Regular was $3.17 at Creswell (this side of Roseburg).



This post modernism looking picture is actually a picture of the great humongous holly tree in our backyard. There are thousands of red berry's on the tree. The foliage is so thick that the grass does not grow much beneath the tree. All righty then, that works for me, cuts back on lawn mowing.

Brief update on the Strategic Planning meeting: The consulting group brought back their design team to show us two possible plans and two sites for the new hospital.

There was a two story and one story desigh both are about 40,000 square feet.

One site was in front of the present hospital, build one, tear down old one for parking.

The second site was to the north of the clinic, which is just down the hill from the current hospital. This would involve developing some steep gully type property, getting a street punched through by the county or city.

After MUCH discussion the group as a whole was leaning toward the two story building to be located north of the present clinic. One advantage would be that the old facility could still be used for some other purpose. One physician mentioned leasing the building to a long term care organization.

Estimated cost 20 million, HUD will finance 18.5 million, hospital supplies the rest.

All I know is that in each of the plans, medical records gets about 500 square feet. That is half of my downstairs at home. Well put that way, we would have plenty of room compared to where we are squashed into right now; a former patient room (150 sq fee) and half of PT across the hall.

2 comments:

Richard's Rants and Raves said...

We went to Sam's Club today and the price of gas there was $3.299. So far, that is the lowest I've seen. Which plan do you favor for the new hospital?
Cathy

Anonymous said...

I like the plan that has the new hospital being built in to the north of the current clinic, that saves parking. I like both single floor and two floor designs. R