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The Wrangell Borough Assembly met for a public hearing and open session on Tuesday, Dec. 13 to discuss a number of issues related to voting, property issues, budgetary appropriations and contracts, and to consider recommendations on what type of roof will grace the new Wrangell Medical Center. Before the open session portion of the meeting the assembly took up a public hearing and second reading on a proposed ordinance amending the borough code to allow absentee voting by fax. Later, in open...
The Wrangell Medical Center renovation project team made a triumphant return to Wrangell this week as the new hospital came inches closer to becoming a reality in the borough. The team is composed of architect Julia Covington of David E. Johnson Architects in Nashville, Tenn., and staff from American Health Facilities Development, Layton Construction and Sanderling Healthcare. The modular buildings to be used in the new hospital are to be provided by Sanderling, a Nashville-based firm that...
The Wrangell Medical Center replacement project took another step toward becoming a reality this week after the Borough Assembly voted to reinstate language in an agreement between the borough, hospital CEO Noel Selle-Rea and Pennsylvania-based InnoVative Capital. The agreement between the three parties would end a lawsuit filed by the borough against Selle-Rea and InnoVative on Oct. 4 that seeks to have the borough severed from any legal or financial implications arising from an arbitration...
The Wrangell Borough Assembly met in two open sessions last week to address a number of items of new business and to certify the most recent special election vote for Proposition 1. During a special session on Monday, Nov. 21, the vote was certified 425-172 in favor of the proposition to provide both the land and buildings comprising the new Wrangell Medical Center as collateral on a $24.7 million USDA loan. The second session, a regularly scheduled meeting, was held on Tuesday, Nov. 22 and...
The Wrangell Medical Center Board of Directors voted unanimously on Wednesday, Nov. 16 to extend Emergency Room and hospital privileges to 7 physicians and one CRNA, while denying those same privileges to Dr. Greg Salard of the Tideline Clinic. Salard attended the open portion of the meeting and spoke up with a request after he was informed that his name was once again up for review. “Would it be possible for me to be there while your discussing my credentials?” Salard asked the board and Sel...
The Wrangell Medical Center Board of Directors held a special executive session meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 9 to discuss issues related to a possible course of action on a contract between WMC and InnoVative Capital. The contract, signed by WMC CEO Noel Selle-Rea on Aug. 8, 2009, hired the investment and banking firm based in Pennsylvania to find possible funding mechanisms and project team members for the nearly $30 million hospital replacement project. After meeting in executive session, the...
The Wrangell Medical Center has added a new weapon to its cutting edge arsenal of tools to help fight disease and promote good health. That tool, a CT scanner, is currently housed in a trailer specially designed for the unit at the west end of the hospital – but will be moved into the new WMC building once construction is completed. The scanner is capable of generating a three-dimensional image of the interior of an object with a series of X-ray images shot around a rotational axis. The scan t...
Brian Smith, left, and Jake Harris encourage Wrangellites to vote “yes” in this week’s special election. After a preliminary count by election officials on Tuesday night, Wrangell citizens voted 351-143 in favor of pledging land and the hospital construction as a lien for a $24.7 million USDA loan. Election officials will review 93 absentee and 10 questionable ballots this week....
The Wrangell Borough Assembly met in a special executive session on Wednesday, Nov. 2 to discuss an arbitration action between InnoVative Capital and the Wrangell Medical Center over a contract signed by Noel Rea, the CEO of WMC, and InnoVative. After a closed-door session, the assembly voted 4-3 to let stand a complaint filed by the Borough in Wrangell’s First Judicial District seeking declaratory relief from a contract signed by Noel Rea and InnoVative in August 2009. Assembly members Mike S...
To the Editor: The Wrangell Chamber of Commerce’s (WCOC) main mission is to support economic development for our members. The WCOC board of directors fully supports the new Wrangell Medical Center (WMC), but only if it is a stick built project. The benefits to the WCOC members will be substantially more with traditional on site construction, than if the project is built with modular construction. We ask that the City & Borough of Wrangell (CBW) and WMC work to do what is needed to make the project be built on site, not down south and barged t...
Attorneys for Alaska Island Community Services are asking the Borough of Wrangell to look into possible conflict of interest issues and delays in physician privileging by the Wrangell Medical Center board. In a letter to Mayor Jeremy Maxand, dated Sept. 26, Danielle Ryman, an attorney for AICS, alleged that the board could be acting improperly after failing to adhere to their bylaws. The board, according to the letter, is not acting on a request by Dr. Greg Salard for emergency room privileges...
The Borough Assembly met in open session on Tuesday, Oct 25 to hammer out a unified message with the Wrangell Medical Center Board – and to look to the citizens of Wrangell to vote in the Nov. 15 special election. That election will put before the voters a proposed ordinance that would authorize the borough to pledge 29 acres of property at the site of the new hospital. The buildings to be raised there would also be pledged as collateral on a $24.7 million U.S.D.A. loan. The preliminary text o...
By Noel Selle-Rea The Wrangell Medical Center board and staff have chosen an approach of keeping communication between the City and Borough of Wrangell (CBW) and Wrangell Medical Center (WMC) direct and out of the media. After the article in last week’s paper I felt it important that we provide some facts about the project. As many of you know, WMC staff, WMC board and myself have all personally poured our heart and soul into this building project for the past several years. It is my hope and belief that we will get past the politics that a p...
A strongly worded letter to Wrangell Medical Center CEO Noel Selle-Rea from Borough Manager Tim Rooney could be a sign of things to come between the borough and the beleaguered hospital replacement project. The letter from Rooney’s office, dated Sept. 28, laid the groundwork for an Oct. 4 filing in the First Judicial District court seeking declaratory relief to sever the borough from a contract entered into by Selle-Rea and InnoVative Capital. Innovative, a banking and financial advisory f...
