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THE CLIFTON RECORD — BOSQUE COUNTY, U.S.A.
FRIDAY, JUNE 23,2006
Award-Winning Goodall-Witcher
Healthcare Fulfills Medical Needs
CLIFTON—Goodall-Witcher Healthcare Foundation
began in 1939, when Dr. VD. Goodall and Dr. S.L. Witcher
decided that the town needed a hospital. Since that time,
the hospital has grown to incorporate the Clifton Medical
Clinic, the Goodall-Witcher Nursing Facility, the Goodall-
Witcher Home Health Agency, and the hospital.
The hospital provides services to residents in Bosque
County and surrounding counties with an emergency
room, in-patient and out-patient care, and a staff of doc-
tors that covers general practice, internal medicine, ra-
diology, surgery, anesthesiology, and family nurse
practitioners.
The mission of the hospital is to provide access to and
delivery of quality healthcare services through efficient,
comprehensive, and friendly care.
The majority of employees at the facility live in close
proximity to the hospital and the caring patient treat-
ment is still reminiscent of the early days when country
doctors traveled miles to visit patients in need.
State of the art technology is available in many areas
of the hospital, with the most recent addition to the exten-
sive radiology department being a bone density monitor.
The Foundation is presently working toward the goals
set for the fundraising efforts of the several million dollar
QOODALL-WITCHER HOSPITAL.
renovation project of the entire complex. The project will
include construction of a new clinic facility as well as
major renovations to the hospital, extended care nursing
facility, and administrations areas.
Several departments will see expansions, including ra-
diology, nuclear medicine, physical therapy, information
systems and data processing, and others.
The Next Generation In Healthcare’
Goodall-Witcher Building Project’s
$6.5 Million USDA Loan Approved
CLIFTON-USDA Ru-
ral Development State Di-
rector Bryan Daniel
announced earlier this
year that the Goodall-
Witcher Healthcare Foun-
dation was selected to
receive a $6.5 million loan
through the agency’s Com-
munity Facilities Loan Pro-
gram. The effort is part of
USDA Rural
Development’s mission to
help rural areas build and
enhance essential commu-
nity facilities.
“Goodall-Witcher is veiy
pleased to receive this
commitment from USDA
through the Community
Facilities Loan Program,”
said GWHF President/
CEO Clarence Fields, Jr.
“With this loan commit-
ment, we can formally kick-
off our capital campaign,
‘The Next Generation in
Healthcare.’”
USDA Rural Develop-
ment funds will be used for
the construction of a new
physician’s clinic and hos-
pital expansion. The hos-
pital raised more than $1.5
million, and the Health Re-
sources and Services Ad-
ministration has
committed $392,826 to-
ward the project.
“I am pleased that
Goodall-Witcher and the
residents of Bosque
County will receive this im-
portant funding,” said
Congressman Chet
Edwards. “Investing in ru-
ral hospitals is vitally im-
portant to ensuring better
access to quality
healthcare for our rural
communities, and since ru-
ral hospitals like Goodall-
Witcher are often the first
line of defense against ill-
ness or injury for many
people, the federal govern-
ment must do its part to
help them serve the grow-
ing health care needs of the
community.”
The project will expand
Goodall-Witcher’s current
facility to alleviate square
footage deficiencies in sev-
eral departments. The new
construction will encom-
pass approximately 30,000
square feet. Interior reno-
vation will include approxi-
mately 13,000 square feet,
with a focus on the emer-
gency and radiology de-
partments. A major
component of the new con-
struction is a 12-physician
clinic of 21,000 square feet.
The remaining 9,000
square feet will contain the
physical therapy, lab, and
data processing depart-
ments.
In the final 2005 appro-
priations bill passed by
Congress and signed into
law by President Bush,
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GWHF President/CEO Clarence Fields, Jr.
expains the expansion project.
Edwards included $400,000
in the Health Resources
and Services Administra-
tion budget for Goodall-
Witcher Hospital The funds
will help to renovate and
update furnishings in its 40-
bed acute care hospital,
and will add floor space to
the X-Ray laboratory and
the emergency area to ac-
commodate the growth in
outpatient services.
Fields said the original
projected cost of the con-
struction and renovation
was $8.5 million. However,
due to increased costs for
construction materials, the
organization anticipates the
project total to increase as
well.
Hospital Auxiliary
Serves Spaghetti
Supper Each Year
CLIFTON—Members of
the Goodall-Witcher
Healthcare Foundation
Auxiliary host their annual
spaghetti supper each
spring, usually in March, at
the Clifton Civic Center. Pro-
ceeds from the money-mak
ing project are used to
assist Goodall-Witcher
Healthcare Foundation with
needed equipment. In the
past, the Auxiliary has pur-
chased a fetal monitor,
wheelchairs, a stretcher,
training videos, and a video
camera.
One of the strongest elements in keeping the hospital
a growing part of the communnity is a large and active
Hospital Auxiliaiy which strives to help the hospital with
equipment and supplies through various fund-raisers
throughout the year.
Goodall-Witcher Hospital
Awarded Solucient Top 100
Award Once Again
CLIFTON—On Monday, May 1, Goodall-Witcher
Hospital was named by Solucient as a 100 Top Hos-
pital Performance Improvement Leader for 2005,
making it the second time the facility has been
recognized for its quality.
“Goodall-Witcher Hospital is very pleased and
honored to receive this recognition for the second
year in a row,” commented Clarence Fields, Jr..
President/CEO. “Goodall-Witcher Hospital strives
to deliver quality healthcare for Bosque and sur-
rounding counties. This national recognition is a
tribute to our Medical Staff, Board of Trustees, and
employees,” said Fields.
Solucient’s annual list of performance-improve-
ment leaders shows that organizationwide atten-
tion is key to financial and operational gains. The
most-improved designation “recognizes a manage-
ment team and board that are able to instill an
organizationwide culture of performance improve-
ment,” says Jean Chenoweth, a senior vice presi-
dent at Solucient.
To select hospitals for the list of 100 most-im-
proved performers, Solucient analyzed Medicare
cost reports, Medicare Provider Analysis and Re-
view data, and CMS Standard Analytical File Out-
patient Data Set. A total of 2,744 hospitals were
included in the study.
Hospitals on the most-improved list are those
that saw the fastest and most consistent rate of
change in nine measures of financial, operational,
and clinical performance over the five-year period.
Within each category, hospitals then were ranked
on the nine measures of clinical and financial per-
formance.
To select this year’s list of most-improved per-
formers, hospitals were ranked against their peers
within one of five categories, including major teach-
ing hospitals with 400 or more beds and signifi-
cant teaching involvement; teaching hospitals with
200 or more beds; large community hospitals with
250 or more beds; medium-size community hospi-
tals with 100 to 249 beds; and small community
hospitals with 25 to 99 beds.
The Auxiliary has also
provided scholarships for
employees who want to fur-
ther their education in the
healthcare field.
The meal consists of
homemade meat sauce,
spaghetti, green vegetable
salad, French bread, and
dessert, and tickets can be
purchased prior to the
meal from auxiliary mem-
bers or at the hospital front
desk.
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006, newspaper, June 23, 2006; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth790015/m1/56/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.