Hospital gets $112,000 gift

Hospital trustees recognized a gift of $112,500 at their meeting Tuesday night. The initial gift was for $100,000 from Emerson Lynn, Jr. of which half is to help purchase equipment for the new hospital, and the other $50,000 to go toward the hospital’s endowment. The second portion received a 25 percent match from a grant from the Kansas Health Institute, augmenting it by $12,500.
In recognition of the gift, a large meeting room in the new hospital will be named the Lynn Family Conference Room.
To date, the hospital has received a total of $1,790,987 in gifts and pledges. The goal is to raise $3.2 million to purchase equipment for the new hospital, and $1 million for an endowment, said Susan Michael, executive director of the Allen County Community Foundation which manages the gifts.

TRUSTEES paid the architectural firm Health Facilities Group $44,301.33 and $2,085 for consultation from Diagnostic Technology regarding radiology technology.
Signage out front of the hospital was discussed. A current design is a monument style going 10 feet high, two feet higher than allowed by Iola codes.
An alternative to the monument style sign, which sits on a broad base, is a sign placed high atop poles. Those signs must be at least 15 feet off the ground but not higher than 30 feet, said Carl Slaugh, Iola city administrator.
Trustees agreed to wait until graphics artists with Reactor Design of Kansas City, secured earlier this month, have come up with a design for the new hospital’s logo before they pursue the issue further.
“Let’s wait until we have a good idea of the artists’ conceptions to decide how a sign will accommodate it,” said Sean McReynolds, a trustee on the hospital board.
“You don’t want the size and shape of the sign to limit what the future design of the logo might be,” added Dr. Brian Wolfe, an ex-officio member of the board.
Placing a very large sign along U.S. 169 was also discussed to alert travelers of a nearby hospital, but its expected high cost caused trustees to shy away from any significant discussion.

FOR MORE information regarding gifts to the hospital, contact Michael at 620-228-4521.