| Gunnison Valley Hospital Special Service District | |
| Location: | 64 East 100 NorthPO Box 759Gunnison, UT 84634 |
| State: | Utah |
| Country: | USA |
| Beds: | 24 |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Website: | http://gvhospital.org/ |
Gunnison Valley Hospital, located in Gunnison, Utah is a rural facility with 25 private beds, 3 Labor/Delivery Rooms, state-of-the-art Operating and Recovery Rooms, Radiology Unit, Labs, Home Health and Hospice and a Cancer Treatment Center in addition to being a Critical Access Hospital (CAH).[1]
The history of the Gunnison Valley Hospital Special Service District dates back to 1932 when the founding doctor, G. Stanford Rees, opened up his doctor's office in Gunnison and began practicing Family Medicine. From that small office in 1932, the practice grew and Rees expanded and built a hospital in Gunnison in the 1940s. That hospital was the first hospital in the entire county of Sanpete.[2] In 1970 the hospital moved to a new building and new location, which is the location where the hospital still resides.
The hospital experienced financial difficulties in the late 1980s to the early 1990s.[3] In 1994 the citizens of the area voted to support and back the hospital with tax payer funds by making the hospital a public entity in the form of a Special Service District formed under Utah's laws.Currently, the hospital features 25 private patient rooms, three family friendly delivery suites, two operating suites, a full-service laboratory, and imaging services featuring not only X-ray, but CT scanning, fluoroscopy studies, digital mammography, ultrasound and MRIs; all linked with a picture archival computer system (PACS).
The Gunnison Valley Hospital Special Service District is governed by a Board of Directors and an executive team.
The board members for the 2017 year include: (1) Jeanette Andersen; (2) Steve Anderson; (3) LaMar B. Bartholomew; (4) Shawn Crane; (5) Nancy Jensen; (6) Cary Judy (Medical Staff Board Member); (7) Brian Murray (Chief Financial Officer of the hospital); and (8) Kim R. .Picket.[4]
The 2017 executive leadership for the Gunnison Valley Hospital includes:
| Mark Dalley | Administrator and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) | 2011[5] | |
| Brian Murray | Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | 1997[6] | |
| Brenda Bartholomew | Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) | unknown |
The Gunnison Valley Hospital Special Service District was named a "top 100 Critical Access Hospital" by Analytics.[7] The hospital sponsors a scholarship award for the community high schoolers.
The reported annual budget for the Gunnison Valley Hospital per the Utah Transparency Website includes the following:
| 2013 | $16,772,443.24 | $17,721,450.13 | $6,304,826.23 | $2,588,000.90 | |
| 2014 | $15,907,021.61 | $17,269,493.49 | $5,508,591.44 | $2,364,636.38 | |
| 2015 | $21,683,349.55 | $23,313,914.58 | $5,561,016.13 | $2,251,078.60 | |
| 2016 | $22,705,536.66 | $25,204,307.57 | $6,044,933.76 | $2,617,525.55 | |
| 2017 | $27,699,104.83 | $28,493,719.12 | $6,917,597.98 | $3,002,648.49 | |
| 2018 | $34,423,291.49 | $36,806,451.51 | $6,612,312.11 | $2,841,857.33[8] |
"When the hospital experienced financial difficulties in the late 1980s, early 1990s, it was realized that there needed to be some capital improvements to the facility to continue on. The hospital was organized as an inter-local agreement which was an agreement of the towns and cities in the Gunnison Valley to own and operate the hospital. They found that it was impossible to get funding from the normal sources for the capital improvements. They went to the Community Impact Board for funding and found that they would need to change their organization to a Special Service District. In 1994 they became a Special Service District and were able to apply for the loan and did receive the loan through the CIB for the capital improvements that were necessary for the hospital.
"One of the reasons the CIB agreed to give the loan on the hospital was because the citizens of Gunnison Valley voted to form the Special Service District for the hospital and they could be taxed as collateral on the loan."
