A lightly attended meeting of the Sonoma Valley Health Care District board of directors last week ended up approving the hospital’s $809,000 capital budget, among other business.
Hospital CEO Kelly Mather said the Thursday night meeting had just three of five board members present and was over by 7 p.m. But in that one-hour span, besides approving the capital budget for the upcoming fiscal year, the board finalized the new hospital wing project and looked back on the previous fiscal year’s budget, which ended June 30.
“It looks like we will be close to budget due to some prior year adjustments and good financial stewardship (and) expense control by the SVH leaders over the past nine months,” Mather said in an email. She said the hospital “is meeting the majority of the goals set for FY 2014.”
SVH leaders also said the hospital’s new wing, with its fully modern emergency center, was completed under its $43 million budget.
A planned update on the hospital’s troubled Obstetrics Unit was tabled until the board’s next meeting in August.
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