BUSH DIARY JULY 1997:
7-1: Only fall out from "rogue" ASNA meeting was that Dr. M handed all of the JACHO documentation and files to Monica for HER to do it. I think she will be able to handle it without much effort.
7-13: Received official email notice of change of positions at the hospital. One of the ASNA people is coming over to be assistant hospital administrator. Tom "resigned". Dr. M is still on board as he signed a three year contract. Drat!
Patrick is back, he was not job hunting just having fun. He also took Monica's truck in for servicing in the amount of 700 bucks, some of that was for four heaters to be installed and replaced all fluids with synthetics.
Charles and Leslie have decided the baby's name will be Anthony Scott Dougherty. That is a nice sturdy name for a boy child.
Charles also reports that Grandma LaVann is not doing well. She is in the hospital and the doc's wanted to put her in long term care and she refused. Went back to the ranch and she has someone there taking care of her and she is apparently on oxygen. I have many fond memories of one of the strongest willed women I have ever known. I shall send flowers at the appropriate time.
7-14; Two weird dreams: One was where I was in a very tall place such as the Space Needle. Also took a tour of an SPCA stable for horses. I felt so sorry for them, they had no lower legs and were lying in lots of straw. Poor things.
Thrift plan: Reviewed the goings on with that thing, it is doing well and I will leave it all alone and let it continue to make money. Yay.
Travel dream: I was packing my bag getting ready to leave the hotel. One of the hotel people asked me if I was going to show my ticket to get on the plane. Apparently the hotel people were check in agents for the airline. That is so handy I am surprised the Sheraton has not already thought of doing that. Although they do have an Alaska desk in the lobby it has limited people and limited hours.
Monica's truck gets put on the barge on the 29th and then she will be committed to staying in Barrow for a couple of years. She is flying to Anchorage to make a deposition on behalf of John Morrow.
7-17-97: Happy Birthday to Anthony Scott Dougherty. Delivered via c-section at Community Hospital(Sutter) in Santa Rose, California. Everyone is doing well. Must get grandma stuff.
7-18: Local vet called to tell us that Bradford's T4 came back and he is once again hyperthyroid. He is on Tapazole and Bradford has discovered that there are pills hidden in the cream cheese and has begun chewing very carefully. Tim has taken to manually inserting his meds manually and checking that he has swallowed. The med is to remind the thyroid to get to work.
7-20: Sad news from California. Grandma LaVann passed away about 9 pm on the 19th. Services will be in Santa Rosa. She will be buried next to her first husband in Colma, California, a town south of San Francisco well known for the funeral industry. Sent flowers to Uncle Phil.
7-22: Today a former medical record clerk delivered a baby boy. She decided to adopt the baby out. The adoptive mom is a former medical record receptionist. It is quite common for babies to be adopted by relatives or friends up here. It's a cultural thing.
7-26: Mock JCAHO survey. Two people came and surveyed the hospital. Results is that they found about 20 type I recommendations. Our major ones were Safety, Human Resources (we recruit too much but there are reasons for that) and Leadership (there IS none at present). We can probably clean up two thirds of those by November.
Latest nonsense at work. Dr. Bob took it upon himself to hire a rad tech, named Ellen. She took the job, took a week off from Providence to do all the moving stuff and showed up here. Yesterday Dr. Bob brought around a new employee and introduced her as the new x-ray manager and it was not Ellen. ??? Dr. Bob completely skipped the ASNA HR people and things are a mess. I smell another law suit. Dr. Bob and family are leaving for Guam soon. Banging head on desk. And the new lady has to take a three month school for ultrasound.
Summer building boom is nuts. The Cultural Center is going up very quickly. It is a huge building and will be handy for many of the events held in town.
There is a new hotel across the street from Alaska Airlines.
Still no expansion at Alaska Airlines, their itty bitty terminal is very crowded. People stand around the baggage area and someone in the crowd yells, hey that is my bag, pass it back, so someone in front grabs that bag and hands it overhead to the back.
Mary Jo Santos got the keys to move into her new house. She got her keys one evening and then promptly lost them while visiting on the Canadian ice cutter. The crew found the keys and returned them to her the next day.
The Martha Black is moored just off shore. They are in town to discuss Salmon Treaty stuff. They had an open house and tons of people went out. Monica went to lunch with the captain. Woot!
Another big build is the gigantic multi-million gallon water tank going up just behind the hospital.
Taking the red eye this coming Saturday, one drink and its lights out.
Update on JACHO survey. For some damn reason it has been scheduled for September. Oh bother.
July is almost over, it is very noisy here in the summer. I keep my fan going in the window for ambient noise. Ah, sleep.
G'night folks.
7-1: Only fall out from "rogue" ASNA meeting was that Dr. M handed all of the JACHO documentation and files to Monica for HER to do it. I think she will be able to handle it without much effort.
7-13: Received official email notice of change of positions at the hospital. One of the ASNA people is coming over to be assistant hospital administrator. Tom "resigned". Dr. M is still on board as he signed a three year contract. Drat!
Patrick is back, he was not job hunting just having fun. He also took Monica's truck in for servicing in the amount of 700 bucks, some of that was for four heaters to be installed and replaced all fluids with synthetics.
Charles and Leslie have decided the baby's name will be Anthony Scott Dougherty. That is a nice sturdy name for a boy child.
Charles also reports that Grandma LaVann is not doing well. She is in the hospital and the doc's wanted to put her in long term care and she refused. Went back to the ranch and she has someone there taking care of her and she is apparently on oxygen. I have many fond memories of one of the strongest willed women I have ever known. I shall send flowers at the appropriate time.
7-14; Two weird dreams: One was where I was in a very tall place such as the Space Needle. Also took a tour of an SPCA stable for horses. I felt so sorry for them, they had no lower legs and were lying in lots of straw. Poor things.
Thrift plan: Reviewed the goings on with that thing, it is doing well and I will leave it all alone and let it continue to make money. Yay.
Travel dream: I was packing my bag getting ready to leave the hotel. One of the hotel people asked me if I was going to show my ticket to get on the plane. Apparently the hotel people were check in agents for the airline. That is so handy I am surprised the Sheraton has not already thought of doing that. Although they do have an Alaska desk in the lobby it has limited people and limited hours.
Monica's truck gets put on the barge on the 29th and then she will be committed to staying in Barrow for a couple of years. She is flying to Anchorage to make a deposition on behalf of John Morrow.
7-17-97: Happy Birthday to Anthony Scott Dougherty. Delivered via c-section at Community Hospital(Sutter) in Santa Rose, California. Everyone is doing well. Must get grandma stuff.
7-18: Local vet called to tell us that Bradford's T4 came back and he is once again hyperthyroid. He is on Tapazole and Bradford has discovered that there are pills hidden in the cream cheese and has begun chewing very carefully. Tim has taken to manually inserting his meds manually and checking that he has swallowed. The med is to remind the thyroid to get to work.
7-20: Sad news from California. Grandma LaVann passed away about 9 pm on the 19th. Services will be in Santa Rosa. She will be buried next to her first husband in Colma, California, a town south of San Francisco well known for the funeral industry. Sent flowers to Uncle Phil.
7-22: Today a former medical record clerk delivered a baby boy. She decided to adopt the baby out. The adoptive mom is a former medical record receptionist. It is quite common for babies to be adopted by relatives or friends up here. It's a cultural thing.
7-26: Mock JCAHO survey. Two people came and surveyed the hospital. Results is that they found about 20 type I recommendations. Our major ones were Safety, Human Resources (we recruit too much but there are reasons for that) and Leadership (there IS none at present). We can probably clean up two thirds of those by November.
Latest nonsense at work. Dr. Bob took it upon himself to hire a rad tech, named Ellen. She took the job, took a week off from Providence to do all the moving stuff and showed up here. Yesterday Dr. Bob brought around a new employee and introduced her as the new x-ray manager and it was not Ellen. ??? Dr. Bob completely skipped the ASNA HR people and things are a mess. I smell another law suit. Dr. Bob and family are leaving for Guam soon. Banging head on desk. And the new lady has to take a three month school for ultrasound.
Summer building boom is nuts. The Cultural Center is going up very quickly. It is a huge building and will be handy for many of the events held in town.
There is a new hotel across the street from Alaska Airlines.
Still no expansion at Alaska Airlines, their itty bitty terminal is very crowded. People stand around the baggage area and someone in the crowd yells, hey that is my bag, pass it back, so someone in front grabs that bag and hands it overhead to the back.
Mary Jo Santos got the keys to move into her new house. She got her keys one evening and then promptly lost them while visiting on the Canadian ice cutter. The crew found the keys and returned them to her the next day.
The Martha Black is moored just off shore. They are in town to discuss Salmon Treaty stuff. They had an open house and tons of people went out. Monica went to lunch with the captain. Woot!
Another big build is the gigantic multi-million gallon water tank going up just behind the hospital.
Taking the red eye this coming Saturday, one drink and its lights out.
Update on JACHO survey. For some damn reason it has been scheduled for September. Oh bother.
July is almost over, it is very noisy here in the summer. I keep my fan going in the window for ambient noise. Ah, sleep.
G'night folks.
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