Hospital, Homestead employees to see increase in paid part of health insurance

It wasn’t until the end of Tuesday’s Alva Hospital Authority meeting that Kelly Parker, interim CFO, brought up the possibility of changing the budget to include paying more toward employee health insurance. The item fell under the heading of new business since it came up after the agenda was posted.

Parker said, “When we met with the finance committee today, one of the things we were wanting (was) to see if there would be an opportunity to increase what percent the medical center pays for employee health benefits.” He said they looked at some 20 different scenarios involving frontline staff b...