PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (September 17th)

From time to time Club members hear me reminding officers to attend monthly Board Meetings. It dawns on me that there might be some curiosity among others about what happens at such meetings. For those of you that are dying to know (and even those that aren’t), let me give you a glimpse of a typical meeting. We meet once a month on the second Tuesday. During our meeting of September 11, we took action and/or considered the following issues:

Arrangements for upcoming Inter-Club meeting on October 8th

Attendance at quarterly Zone meetings

Correspondence from Iowa Kid Sight Co-coordinator

Recap of annual scholarship winners / awards

Youth camping funding request

Leader Dog funding request

Cedar Falls Public Art Committee funding request

Correspondence from Iowa Lions Foundation

Requests (2) for vision-impaired individuals and financial assistance

I’m pleased to report that the Club is in sound financial health and that our Membership Chair is beginning to plan another major push to recruit new members.

We Serve ……… John Page

TODAY’S MEETING (September 17th)

Shane Schellhorn will speak to the club about the Drive Safe Cedar Valley initiative.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

September 24 … Roger Bublitz District Gov. NE IA District will speak to the Club.

October 1 … Robert Smith will speak to the club about UNI-CUE.

October 8 … Cedar Falls Interclub meeting. Jeff Kurtz, Director, Cedar Falls Historical Society, and Campaign Chair, Don Redfern, will speak to the club about the, "Keeping our Heritage Alive Campaign."

October 15 … Bennie Spain, Director, BH County Veterans Commission will speak to the Club

BIRTHDAYS ANNIVERSARIES

Tim Weaver – Sept. 17th None

ANNOUNCEMENTS

None

LAST MEETING (September 10th)

Sherri Greenwood, Covenant-Sartori Hospital Administrator, provided the board with an overview of recent improvements to their health care system. Since 2002, the following services and units have been established: 2002 - Senior Behavioral Unit, 2003 - Surgical Weight Loss Unit, 2004 - Midwest Institute of Advance Laparoscopic Surgery, 2005 & 2006 - Orthopedic Vascular Surgery, 2007 - Arrowhead Medical and Emergency Services building. Currently, the hospital and Arrowhead employs 387 people.

Challenges for the hospital include encouraging the state legislature to increase Medicaid funding to take advantage of the 2 for 1 match from the federal government. This is vital because currently Covenant-Sartori only receives 80 cents for every dollar of Medicaid service provided and 88 cents for every dollar of Medicare service provided. Currently, 50% of their revenue is from Medicare and Medicaid patients. Covenant Sartori also provides charity care for individuals who do not have health insurance at all and are in the appropriate low-income class level.

DID YOU KNOW

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IT'S GREAT TO BE A LION!