November 30, 2015
A decision on whether the South Burnett Regional Council will take over running the South Burnett Private Hospital has been postponed until January after a potential new operator emerged last week.
Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said he was advised of an interested party a few days ago, and met with the operators in Brisbane on Friday.
He has accepted their offer to visit Kingaroy and tour the hospital facility in the near future.
Because of this eleventh-hour development, the Council will not make a decision on the hospital’s future until further discussions have been held with the operators about their interest in running the hospital.
“It is certainly Council’s preferred option to have a major player in the health field to run the South Burnett Private Hospital,” the Mayor said.
“Over the last six months I have been working to find a company to take over the management of the hospital.
“I refuse to give up, and while there is some interest I will continue to do everything I can to see it come to fruition.”
A due diligence report on the hospital from consultants Ernst & Young has also been received, and has been distributed to Councillors and senior staff for their perusal and input.
A vote on the report and the future of the facility had been expected at next Wednesday’s Council meeting.
A decision is now likely to occur at the Council’s first new year meeting on January 13.
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Tonight Mayor Wayne Kratzmann confirmed to southburnett.com.au that the operator was not one he had previously approached.
The mayor also confirmed Ernst & Young’s report has suggested the hospital would be profitable if it could achieve an average 50 per cent bed occupancy rate.
The hospital had achieved a rate of up to 70 per cent average occupancy for many years, but in recent years this had dwindled to 25 per cent.
The Ernst and Young report will be part of an information kit supplied to the potential new operator when discussions take place.
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The Honorable thing to do, is for a referendum by the people:
Easily done when electing the next group of councilors.
But then again this council is not noted for being Honorable to the people,
as is this site that only prints what is favorable to the council, as they are not be upset.
Prove me wrong by allowing people to see this:
Denis-Peter, I take your challenge to prove you wrong by publishing your comment.
1. Have you not declared that the South Burnett Regional Council … is an unlawful entity with no authority under the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901?
ref. http://public-notice-online.org/author/denis-peter-of-the-family-rawlinson/
2. That you do not recognise the authority of the South Burnett Regional Council over you?
ref. “THAT I, Denis-Peter: of the family Rawlinson also known and written as Denis-Peter: Rawlinson, proving the Living Human Being, am the sole and absolute owner of myself, my body, and my estate, and possess unconditional, allodial, sovereign title thereto, and that I abjure, renounce, forsake, and disavow utterly and absolutely now and forever all presumptions of power, authority, or right by any governmental agency, its Principals, over the rights, life, liberty, freedom or property of this Affiant from whatever source presumed or derived.”
ref. http://public-notice-online.org/2013/12/denis-peter-of-the-family-rawlinson-affidavit-of-truth/
3. That you are seeking compensation from named individuals at the SBRC? “My claim for compensation would be Five Hundred Australian 99.9% Pure Silver Dollars ($500.00*), 99.9%* Pure silver, per incident, per Calendar Day. Silver has been selected as-under the:- Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 Chapter 12 section 115. “A State shall not coin money, nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in Payment of debts”
If I interpret your affidavit correctly, you are seeking this compensation because you have been issued rates notices in a name that you claim is fictional.
ref. http://public-notice-online.org/2013/12/denis-peter-of-the-family-rawlinson-affidavit-of-truth/
So …. I am surprised that you would not recognise that in Australia a referendum is the mechanism used to amend the Constitution. What you are seeking is a plebiscite.
And governments, which you don’t apparently recognise anyway, are not bound by the results of a plebiscite.
Anne Miller
Editor, South Burnett Online
This would be a good decision, not only for Council, residents of the South Burnett, but also for all the visiting specialists. They have been a godsend for all types of people, especially ones who have to rely on family or other means to take them so far from home for these visits. It is hard on some people who have bad problems, but the constant driving for hours on end as well as waiting and then having to pay for parking the car, so if the hospital can once again open its doors to patients as well as all the visiting doctors attending more regularly, it is a win-win situation
Why was the Due Dilligence process Outsourced?