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' Mr. Todd Gerhardt,
Assistant City Manager
Chanhassen City Hall
' 690 Coulter Drive
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Dear Mr. Gerhardt:
' As a follow -up to my telephone conversation with both you and Mayor
Chmiel, a representative from St. Francis Regional Medical Center
will make a brief visitor presentation at the November 23rd city
council meeting. Barbara Hamilton, Vice President of Patient
Services, at St. Francis, will be prepared to give a ten (10)
minute presentation on "Social Accountability ", or the community
benefits provided to the community by the hospital during 1992.
Barbara will be there at 7:30 P.M., and will be using a few
overheads in her presentation.
' At St. Francis, patient care remains at the center of what we do.
But, we do a whole lot more. Enclosed please find an insert that
' describes the services that the hospital provides at no charge to
those in need and to the broader community we serve. As the insert
highlights, St. Francis provided a total of $1.6 million of
services for the communities we serve during 1992.
Please contact me at 496 -7585, if you should have any questions.
We appreciate your cooperation in offering St. Francis the
opportunity to communicate the hospital's contributions and public
service to the community.
' Warm Regards,
Theresa Johnson,
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
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1 325 West Fifth Avenue, Shakopee, Minnesota 55379 (612) 445 -2322 CITY r -� ;, �a � <.
Affirmative Action Employer. A member of the Benedictine Health System.
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SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
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As a member of the Benedictine physician referral service, was the winner of the 1991 Minnesota
Health System and in the Hospital Associations' Community Service Award of Merit.
tradition of our founders, St. Francis provided approximately $1 million in communitl
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St. Francis continues to provide, program benefits to the Minnesota Valley communities,
to the extent that we are able, 5625 : reaching 72,000 people in 1992. I
medical care and community MT* Through the Social Accountability budgeting process, we
resources for those who are report to our community the full scope of the charity care we
unable to afford these services. are providing, including programs which go beyond what is
1992 was the first year of the traditionally reported in financial statements. '
implementation of the Catholic
Health Association's Social 51.668 ttrt thousands/
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Accountability budgeting Quantifiable Community Benefits Research rch
process at St. Francis. This */ \ ,‘
is a process which identifies Public Programs/ Unpaid Cost
and quantifies services to those in need and to the broader
Medicaid $459 Medicare
communities which the hospital serves. In fiscal year 1992, ',°five
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St. Francis provided a total of $1.6 million of services for the rgin
benefit of the communities we serve. Nonbilled
/ Benedictine Care Services
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St. Francis provided $625,000 in total service to the needy in other Benefits C� y ,n-qnd �,,�, munitill
1992. Included in this amount was the cost of care made s P°°` /"° � ' Donation "^°
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available for those who could not afford services and the sbz;anthousands) S1.043 on thausandst
unpaid costs of public programs like Medicaid. Also included Total Services To The Needy Total Services To The Broader Commu1
in benefits for those in need are donations made by the
hospital for needy families, school projects, Toys for Tots and 1
Food Shelf donations. St. Francis reached approximately . Nationally, Medicare Payment Increases Are Not Keeping Up With The Cost of Care Increases
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3,000 individuals in need with these efforts. 3 ` "m"'
1 30%
In addition to being the traditional provider of care, St. Francis I 14.9%
provides a number of community health resources. Unpaid s5 %" Gap
costs of Medicare and services like the hospice program, ` 20% ' Cumu 19.7
chaplain services, speakers bureau and health screenings are ' 15% • �
part of the benefits to the community. Through their skills i • •,•• .
and expertise, our employees serve as healthcare resources t0% • • •'' I
in low profit programs such as health education, ambulance 5 %. ..... • - — • " •
service, Lifeline, Meals on Wheels, pre -term birth prevention o % .
and 445 -CARE. The backbone of St. Francis' community out- 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991
reach efforts, 445 -CARE, a 24 -hour health information and , Cost OfCare Increase Medicare Payment Increase
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RECEIVED
To: City Council Members 2 3 1992
From: Thomas & Darleen Turcotte NOV
6430 City West Parkway #5314 CITY OFHHNHAS'
' Eden Prairie, MN 55344
(612) 946 -1217
PID 25- 0101520
' Date: November 17, 1992
Since we have not been directly contacted by the City Engineer or
' any City Planner, I am obligated to write to each of you to express
our concerns regarding the Preliminary Assessment Roll Revisions
for City Project 92 -5, File 39308.
1. We were required to pay the Lake Ann Interceptor assessment as
a portion of our building permit. Our permit was issued on
1 September 1, 1992 and we were assessed $850.00. We can not
directly or indirectly utilize this service.
2. We are in the final phase of completion of a state -of- the -art
mound /septic system at a cost of $6000. You are proposing to
assess us $659 (initial conditions) for City Sewer Service that we
cannot connect to and as per the City Engineer, will not have to
connect to until our mound system completely fails. Per the
diagrams dated September 1992, you are planning to locate the
Forced Main on our property line, which will conceivably interfere
' with the placement of our completed well.
3. We completed the installation of a new well on our property at
a cost of $4000. This was completed approximately September 30,
' 1992. You are proposing to assess us $1275 (initial conditions)
for City Water Service which we will be unable to use and which we
have no desire to use. The Water Main Assessment Area was altered
from the October 9, 1992 plan to now include our parcel for no
apparent purpose other than to increase or expand the assessment
roll.
Why are new rural residents of Chanhassen obligated to install
high -grade mound /septic systems and individual -use wells and then
be unfairly forced to pay assessments for services that are
' unusable. Would it not be more equitable to have these taxpayers
pay this assessment when they will directly and immediately benefit
from such service.
We are not against rural development, yet we chose to acquire the
5 acre parcel and establish our household in the peace and serenity
of a small community. If we wanted city services, we would have
' built in an area where these services were provided.
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To summarize our concerns, we have spent to date roughly $10,000 on
a new well and on a mound /septic system, neither of which have been
used. We have already paid an assessment of $850 and are now
facing an additional $1934 (initial conditions) assessment for
projects that will not serve us as homeowners, at least not into
the foreseeable future.
' Assess us when we connect to these utilities, not when the city
believes it should assess us to pay for the project. You are
making it unduly burdensome for us as we make our transition from
city dwellers to rural homeowners with these persistent assessments
and continuing miscommunication.
Please regard this letter as a written objection to the unfair
' assessment and as such let this letter serve as part of the written
record.
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