Hospital getting new equipment, surveys okay

Members of the Wrangell Medical Center Board of Directors met for a brief monthly meeting Feb. 17.

There were no action items on the agenda, only staff reports.

Hospital CEO Robert Rang reported the Borough Assembly approved the purchase of new laboratory equipment last month. An equipment chemical analyzer and a coagulation analyzer will together be purchased outright for $135,000. The hospital board had initially approved leasing the machines, but Assembly members preferred to front them the money using an emergency fund it set aside last summer, saving the hospital about $20,000 in interest...