This document outlines a proposal for Bethany County Medical Center to integrate with Community General Hospital over a 4 year period. Key points include Community General constructing a new parking lot for overflow, expanding ER and patient areas, redistributing staff duties between the hospitals, offering buyouts for retiring Community General employees, and balancing costs through increased revenue from more patients. The integration aims to benefit both hospitals through shared resources, maintained employment, and continued service to their communities.

1. WELCOME
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2. Bethany County Medical Center
Proposal to integrate Community General 4 year plan

3. Community General Facts

4. Community General New Construction to be completed
ETA : 6-2013

7. Where Do We Come in?
Bethany Unifies with Community General

8. Joining Forces

9. Challenge of bringing two Hospitals together as one
COMBINING WORKFORCES

10. • Bringing Community GH
to Bethany Medical
On 9/2009

11. Side by Side Comparison
Bethany Medical Community General
Center Hospital
• Serves 100,000 • Serves 50,000
• 800 Employees • 400 Employees

12. Questions?
Parking
Work &
Who
Patient
Pay’s?
Area
Who’s
in Work
Charge Duties
?
Work
Schedule

13. Solutions
• Parking
 Community General Has gone into contract for purchase of a
dilapidated building adjacent to Bethany Medical. The building will
be destroyed and removed in order to construct parking lot that will
accommodate all Community general staff and overflow of patients
from Community General’s community.
 This parking Lot will be gifted to Bethany Medical Center after
Community General Vacates to their New facility in four years.

14. Work & Patient Areas
 The Emergency room currently has an ascendant corridor that has been blocked off. This will be
revamped in order to provide for 15 more bays for patients and two more rooms for physicians and
staff personnel. The waiting room is being redesigned to provide for fifty more chairs.
 All Nursing Areas will add two more bays
 The old Mental Health Unit will be opened to accommodate inpatient overflow.
 All specialty units will have three waiting areas, one of which will be redone into patient bay that will
hold five beds.

15. Work Share Duties
Schedule & Duties Addressed
• Bethany MC • Community GH
 Clinical Nurse Managers assign  Supervisors provide master list to
Duties to all CGH support unit staff BMC Clinical Nurse Managers.
& nurses.  CGH Staff up for retirement in next
 CGH supervisors will report to BMC 5 years have been given buyout by
Unit Clinical Nurse Mangers to CGH.
coordinate staff supervision of their  Administrators will continue to
staff and joint duties. oversee their staff.
 Per-diem staff will be restricted in  All employees will sign a flextime
an effort to accommodate CGH waiver-based on need.
staff.

16. Who Will Pay?
Community General’s Transition to Bethany will balance out cost. More
patients will produce more revenue to cover payroll. Change provides for a
speculative loss of 100 patients daily and early retirement buyout of
CGH employees.

17. Win Win For All
Bethany MC Community GH
 New Parking Lot  Keep employees working
 More Revenue  Less unemployment
 Community Unity  Professional feedback
 Professional Comradely  Broaden work experience
 Tax write-off for losses  Still maintain employees
 Lessen workloads  Still serve & maintain
 Less overtime paid out patients