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At the Fort Lupton High School homecoming celebration, some of the alumni from 1981 came to bring back some memories, have PHOTO BY BELEN WARD some chili and tour the school with Principal John Biner.
Utah-based health care group merging with SCL health Platte Valley, Lutheran Medical Center joining Intermountain health BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
SCL Health, which runs Platte Valley and Lutheran medical centers, and Utah-based Intermountain Health announced their intent to merge on Sept. 16. When complete — perhaps early next year — the combined nonprofit system will employ more than 58,000 caregivers and operate 33 hospitals, and it will operate 385 clinics across six states, according to a press statement. Linda Jumonville, president and CEO of SCL Health, and Dr. Marc Harrison, CEO of Intermountain
Health, based in Salt Lake City, said the merger wouldn’t mean layoffs or changes in available products/ services. “This merger wasn’t done with a need to cut costs,” Jumonville said. “We operate efficiently because there is no geographic overlap. I expect very little change, other than to accelerate innovative approaches faster.” “Day to day, we’re going to work to get better with the tools we bring to bear,” Harrison said. SCL Health is a a faith-based organization affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Intermountain Healthcare has been
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The word on potential mandatory workplace vaccines for coronavirus came down from the Biden administration two weeks ago. The impact of that order in Fort Lupton City Hall came down during a Sept. 14 study session. Human Resources Director Laura Howe said the rules don’t apply, even though Fort Lupton employs more than 100 full-and part-time employees, plus seasonal ones. The reason is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is in charge of enforcing the order. “OSHA has no status on us,” she told council. “I spent a long time looking at the requirements. As soon as I found out it didn’t apply, I stopped.” The City and County of Denver and the federal government require vaccines for employees. Howe said the city of Pueblo is paying $500 to vaccinated workers. The city of Fort Lupton has 165 total employees. A bit more than half, 90 to 95 of them, are on full time. Howe told council employees in the public safety and public works departments have higher non-vaccination rates than other segments of city employees. Library news In other business, council has a copy of a memorandum of understanding between it and the Fort SEE VACCINE, P6
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