PMC board approves budget, plans discussion with architect

The Petersburg Medical Center board passed its annual capital and operating budget last Thursday, May 26.

The $406,207 capital project list includes a new emergency room information system, a replacement chiller, a cardiac stress test/treadmill along with other equipment and infrastructure. $100,000 of that budget is directed toward facility improvement, a kind of contingency fund.

PMC department heads come up with a list of projects and prioritize them with administration and the PMC board.

PMC CFO Doran Hammett said around $117,000 of the capital project budget is funded through external sou...