Commissioners prepare to make annual appointments

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October 13, 2011

Frank Denzler Rushville Republican The Rushville Republican Thu Oct 13, 2011, 10:49 AM EDT

RUSHVILLE — Rush County Commissioners met Tuesday and announced that in the coming weeks they will be making their annual appointments to various boards and other entities. The length of terms vary from appointment to appointment. After nearly 65 years in the medical field, one of the largest appointments will be to refill Dr. Davis EllisÕ position as county health officer.

The trio of county leaders will also announce appointments to the alcoholic beverage board, area plan commission, county attorney and county board of review, custodial service, E-911 board, Eastern Indiana Regional Wage Board, ECDC board, employee health insurance committee, fiber optic board, three positions on the county health board, homeland security coordinator, highway superintendent, two hospital board members, I.C.A.P. and the county veteran service officer.

In other unrelated business, Daylanne Sheehan attended the meeting on behalf of the Rush County Master Gardeners. The volunteer organization has put together plans to do landscape work on the courthouse lawn property. Sheehan requested the signature on a $10,000 Rush County Community Foundation Grant application to complete the project. Initial pans call for concrete work on the west sidewalk approaching the courthouse, planting additional trees and other updates to the property. If awarded the grant, members hope to begin work this year with a June 2012 completion date. According to Sheehan, roughly 75 percent of the grant monies will be used to replace the west entrance side walk.

Voting unanimously, the commissioners approved SheehanÕs request.

"We applaud your efforts and wholeheartedly approve of the initial plans," commissioner Tom Barnes said.

In a final matter, Verlin Custer, representing the Raleigh Fire Department and Raleigh Ambulance service, asked if any headway had been reached in a September meeting regarding standardizing medical protocols for all county ambulance service providers.

According to Barnes, one meeting has been held to address the issue. "There has been a lot of misinformation thrown about regarding this issue. In regards to cutting funding for this ambulance service or that one unless the patients are transported to Rush Memorial Hospital. That is not the case and will not happen," Barnes said.

Currently Anderson Township volunteers and Rush EMS Ambulance service work under the same medical protocols and the same medical director, Dr. Daugherty. Volunteer medical personnel in Carthage and Raleigh currently use Dr. Richard Boersma as their medical director. Although very similar in nature, some variations are evident in the medical protocols used by the department. RMH Ambulance and Anderson Township operate advanced life service (ALS) operations while Carthage and Raleigh operate as basic life services (BLS).

According to county leaders, both medical directors will establish protocols then meetings will be held with each of the emergency response services.

"The state says that we do not have to have common protocols and I feel things have worked well for years and we should leave it alone," Custer said.

The commissioners concurred that they are not the best suited to make or set protocols and will leave that to the doctors to do. They reiterated that once that step is completed, they will meet with all county ambulatory departments and seek approval for the recommended protocols.

Contact: frank.denzler@rushvillerepublican.com or (765) 932-2222 ext. 106.

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