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Still Free! More than just an advertisement Inside Inside PCHS alumni weekend July 4th events Pages 14-15 INNformer Page 11 Publication of The Wells Inn Volume 3, No. 11 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 June 24, 2016 SGH, WVU Medical negotiations continue By Charles Winslow this arrangement but the local hospital does not. The business model of Sistersville General Hos- pital is from the 1980s and is outdated. Currently, In the often legally complicated world of health SISTERSVILLE – Negotiations continue be- care, under the federal anti-kickback statute and Sistersville is a critical access hospital with an tween Sistersville General Hospital and WVU other laws, Sistersville is prohibited from receiv- Medicine for the take over of Sistersville’s exist- emergency department and 11 in-patient beds, as ing any compensation or referral fees from the ing hospital operations, with the proposed goal of well as out-patient clinics. hospitals that accept their patients. While Sistersville’s emergency room remains WVU providing a new and smaller facility to Sistersville General also has had a harder time ab- serve the health-care needs of Sistersville and the busy with more than 7,000 visits last year, most surrounding area. of the patients who had to be admitted were trans- sorbing the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act and the reduction in Medicare and Med- ferred to larger and better-equipped hospitals, icaid payments. “The economy of scale is just not leaving Sistersville’s own in-patient beds largely “Part of the negotiation is about the level of care there,” May said, adding that health care at a rural empty and a drain on the hospital’s finances. that would be available,” said John May, Sis- Continued on page 7 tersville General’s CEO. The receiving hospitals benefit financially from Frontier phone lines Man killed in tie up Shirley VFD ATV accident By Charles Winslow The Kinneys, along with other A Tyler County man was killed members of their busy rural June 17 on Elk Fork Road. ALMA – It may not be how most couples would choose to volunteer fire department, According to a statement issued were dispatched to Indian celebrate their first wedding by the Tyler County Sheriff’s Of- Creek because some time be- anniversary but Ryan and fice, John A. Fiber, 53, of Elk fore the 7 a.m. call went out a Megan Kinney, members of Fork Road in Middlebourne died the Shirley Volunteer Fire De- large truck traveling down the Friday, June 17, as a result of an road apparently snagged and partment, got to spend nearly ATV accident on the Lone Tree got entangled in Frontier nine hours Monday, June 13, section of Elk Fork Road. doing traffic control on Indian Communications telephone lines, snapping a pole about Fiber was northbound when he at- Creek Road off of Route 18. three-quarters of the way tempted to pass a truck and lost down. The pole was later “It wasn’t how I expected to control, according to the sheriff’s found to have been cut by a spend the day,” Megan said, office. The ATV traveled over the chainsaw, presumably to free adding that her husband, who road bank and struck a tree. He is the vice president of the de- the vehicle, and the remains of was pronounced dead at the scene. partment, was supposed to fill the pole and attached wires their swimming pool. Continued on page 19 The report stated the accident re- mains “under investigation, but INDEX NM Museum curator 5 Fireworks safety 10 Classified ads 16 it is believed that speed and alco- hol were contributing factors.” Editorial: Why we Sistersville council 8 July 4th events 11 Extension cords 17 Assisting were Middlebourne celebrate July 4th 2 EMS, Middlebourne VFD, Sis- Familiar Face: Social hosting law 8 Events 11-15 Oil & gas briefs 18-19 tersville VFD and the West Vir- Andrew Gianopoulos, Jenkins Auto Parts 9 PC class of ’86 15 Fireflies 20 ginia Medical Examiner’s Office.
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