Word: batt
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...Farmington, pop. 7,400, where logging and farming provide seasonal work and unemployment is twice the national average, pride runs deep. A handshake binds a contract almost as often as a signature. So when a local writer walked unannounced into the office of Franklin Memorial Hospital president Richard Batt to explain that he could not pay for his son's hospitalization, Batt wanted to help the man meet his obligation honorably. After agreeing to adjust the bill, Batt asked--in an afterthought really--if the writer would help rework the hospital's brochures. "It was a transforming experience," Batt says...
...incident got Batt thinking: How could his small, 70-bed community hospital offer low-income patients a way to pay for the rising cost of health care? Could they trade their skills for medical treatment? After all, barter may have fallen on hard times, but it's an American tradition: for decades people exchanged services for goods, not dollars. A country doctor's fee might be a bushel of potatoes or a freshly baked...
...Batt tried out his idea on colleagues. Many were dubious. But hospital board chairman Darryl Brown, son of a Maine dirt farmer who cut brush on the county road to pay his property taxes, weighed in with his opinion. They would...
Would the program work elsewhere? "It can work anywhere," says Batt, who came to the region from Denver, where he ran a 565-bed hospital. "It's a way to help patients help themselves." O'Leary puts it this way: "It gives you a good feeling that you aren't a charity case...
...same time, Batt charges that EchoHawk's ancestry is providing him with special advantages. "He gets attention because he comes from an unusual background," says Batt, a former Idaho lieutenant governor. "I don't get that kind of free media." Batt also charges that EchoHawk's campaign has received a lot of help from out of state. Actor Dustin Hoffman has reportedly donated...