Hospital Board Continues to Mull Plan for $5.5 Million Levy

DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System Board of Directors agreed last week at their monthly meeting that they need to move forward with a decision on how to spend the $5.5 million hospital levy approved by voters last fall.

“One way or another, we need to make a decision tonight or by the next meeting on how we’re going to move forward,” said Ted Patterson, board president. “We promised the community we were going to do something with this money and we need to do it.”

In February the board hired Stroudwater Associates, a national firm whose consultants design solutions for healthcare, to e...