2012 PRESS RELEASES

01/20/2012: Governing Boards of Klickitat County Public Hospital Districts #1 and #2 Meet in Joint Session
 
Governing Boards of Klickitat County Public Hospital District #1, Klickitat Valley Health, Goldendale and Klickitat County Public Hospital District #2, Skyline Hospital, White Salmon, will meet in a Joint Special session at 6pm, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at Skyline Hospital in White Salmon. This joint meeting follows two informal meetings between the districts to discuss issues of common interest and collaboration.

Skyline Hospital’s Board President, Don Schaack, will chair the joint meeting which will also include Chief Executive Officers from the two districts, Mike Madden (Skyline) and John White (Klickitat Valley Health). White said “I’m excited to take our collaborative activities and work together with Skyline to the next level. We share many common interests and I believe, in order for both organizations to succeed, we each need to find efficiencies and economies of scope and scale that are not available to us individually.

The meeting agenda includes a status report from each district on major initiatives and priorities, an update on current collaboration, and will conclude with an action planning discussion to identify future collaborative priorities.

The meeting is open to the public as are all meetings of every public hospital district commission in Washington State. Chief Executives from both Mid-Columbia Medical Center and Providence Hood River, peer hospitals in the Columbia Gorge, were invited to join the meeting.

Klickitat Valley Health (KVH) is a rural 25-bed critical access care hospital located in the town of Goldendale, just above the Columbia River Gorge in south central Washington State. As a public hospital district, KVH is owned by the community and governed by an elected board of five commissioners. The hospital opened in 1949 and cares for residents and visitors of Klickitat County. KVH offers continuum of care through its Klickitat Valley Hospital, Family Practice Clinic, KVH Home Health and Hospice, KVH Ambulance Service, and its assisting living center Golden View Terrace. Patients and their families enjoy patient-centered care in a comforting environment of high technology medicine combined with hometown compassion and kindness.

For More Information Contact:
John R. White, Chief Executive Officer & Superintendent
Klickitat County Public Hospital District #1
310 S. Roosevelt
Goldendale, Washington 98620
Office Number: (509) 773-1008
mjackson@kvhealth.net
 

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