The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

State surveyors, Federal updates, summer job opportunities and staff reports topped agenda items in a short, less than an hour-long meeting of the Haxtun Health Board of Directors at the end of February.

The Monday night, Feb. 27 meeting opened with the financial report, given by Chief Executive Officer Dewane Pace in the absence of Chief Financial Officer Joleen Stroyek.

Pace said the average daily census for the acute care unit, or the hospital side, was .9, which is 26 percent over budget for the month. Numbers in the CFO report represent the period ending Jan. 31. Pace also noted that the...