Al Vogt

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  Published on: 4/22/2007    Last Visited: 4/22/2007  

  "We are seeing a greater and greater degree of this," said Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt.
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  Vogt didn't know the annual cost to his facility.The more Cook gives away, the less it is able to pay its own bills, he said.

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  Published on: 8/27/2009    Last Visited: 9/9/2009  

  "People have enough stress on their budgets," said Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt in recommending the 2010 levy amount.
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  "The ambulance piece is critical," said Vogt.
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  Administrator Vogt expects the cuts to cost the Cook Hospital $100,000 or more.
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  At the same time, Vogt said nursing home reimbursement rates will be frozen at the current levels for the next four years.

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  Published on: 6/8/2002    Last Visited: 6/8/2002  

  According to Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt, the hospital stands to receive $124,000 under the pharmacy grant proposal submitted along with the other hospitals in the region.
  
  "These are the kinds of things that just wouldn't be available to us without these grants," said Vogt.
  
  Other projects that will likely be affected by the freeze include an effort by the Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC), in Duluth, to diagnose Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in northeastern Minnesota and to work with parents and professionals on more effective ways of dealing with those affected by the brain disorder.According to ARC's Lynn Frigaard, the group was supposed to receive $158,000 in state funding for the effort, but the future of the program is now in doubt.Victims of FAS are far more likely than others to engage in criminal activity, according to Frigaard, and the group has been working to improve understanding of that link as well as to develop better ways to treat such individuals.
  
  We've been working for nine years to get this on the agenda, now we don't know what will happen," she said.

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  Published on: 2/14/2002    Last Visited: 2/14/2002  

  According to Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt, the hospital stands to receive $124,000 under the pharmacy grant proposal submitted along with the other hospitals in the region.
  
  "These are the kinds of things that just wouldn't be available to us without these grants," said Vogt.
  
  Other projects that will likely be affected by the freeze include an effort by the Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC), in Duluth, to diagnose Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in northeastern Minnesota and to work with parents and professionals on more effective ways of dealing with those affected by the brain disorder.According to ARC's Lynn Frigaard, the group was supposed to receive $158,000 in state funding for the effort, but the future of the program is now in doubt.Victims of FAS are far more likely than others to engage in criminal activity, according to Frigaard, and the group has been working to improve understanding of that link as well as to develop better ways to treat such individuals.
  
  We've been working for nine years to get this on the agenda, now we don't know what will happen," she said.

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  Published on: 6/25/2009    Last Visited: 6/25/2009  

  Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt said job losses could be significant and cited the governor's cuts to GAMC as an example.

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  Published on: 5/14/2009    Last Visited: 5/14/2009  

  Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt said the hospital anticipates seeing patients by the second week in June.
  
  "We're thrilled to be a part of the veterans outreach clinic," said Vogt, who added that the agreement will benefit both the hospital and area veterans.
  
  "It's new business for us that was not anticipated in our budget," he said. "And it brings health care closer to some of the region's veterans."
  
  The Hibbing VA Clinic treats veterans from across northeast Minnesota, stretching from International Falls to Virginia and from Ely to Aurora. Vogt said the Hibbing clinic had been experiencing a number of cancellations because of the travel distance coupled with the rising cost of gasoline.
  
  "They needed an outreach clinic and contacted us about serving as that site," said Vogt, who said Cook was centrally located for the mix of patients using services at Hibbing.
  
  The Veterans Administration Clinic at Hibbing and the Cook Hospital have been negotiating the establishment of an outreach clinic for about nine months, Vogt said.
  
  He said services will begin one day a week at the Cook Hospital, but are expected to grow.
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  The Hibbing VA Clinic will purchase lab and imaging services from Cook, Vogt said, but will use its own staff for providing primary care services at Cook.

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  Published on: 3/3/2009    Last Visited: 3/3/2009  

  Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt said recruitment of local physicians "has been a highest priority."
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  Vogt said locums will remain part of the mix at Cook Hospital even with the addition of other doctors.
  
  "We'll still be using locums, especially in emergency room services," said Vogt.

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  Published on: 12/12/2008    Last Visited: 12/12/2008  

  In a phone interview on Wednesday, Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt said he understood the budget pressures facing the city, but expressed disappointment with the council's decision. He outlined his concerns about maintaining a police presence in a letter to the city earlier this year.
  
  "We have to provide emergency services 24 hours per day and with the increasing prevalence of unprovoked violence, mental health issues and drug seekers, our exposure to events needing law enforcement is greatly heightened," Vogt wrote. "This leaves the staff (for the most part female) alone in the emergency room with patients that may place my staff in harm's way if individuals are seeking control drugs. We do everything internally that we can to safeguard our staff but we rely heavily upon the presence of a police force in Cook to be a part of that system."
  
  Both Olson and Vogt serve on the Police Commission, which they said was not consulted on the decision to disband the Police Department.

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  Published on: 2/7/2008    Last Visited: 2/7/2008  

  Cook Hospital Administrator Al Vogt also expressed his support for keeping the police force intact.
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  In his letter, Vogt noted that he was especially concerned about problems occurring after hours at the hospital.
  
  "We have to provide emergency services 24 hours per day and with the increasing prevalence of unprovoked violence, mental health issues and drug seekers, our exposure to events needing law enforcement is greatly heightened," he wrote.

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  www.timberjay.com/current.php?article=5140 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/3/2009    Last Visited: 3/3/2009  

  I am an employee at the Cook Hospital and would like to give my opinion and observations regarding Administrator Al Vogt's pay raise. Let me first state that I am not representing my union or any other employees' views, these are my own views.
  
  I, too, was at first dismayed when I'd heard of the raise. After all, 15 percent for one employee for one year did seem out of order especially in these difficult economic times. So, I sought out any information that would help explain this. I spoke with our assistant administrator, I read the articles in the Timberjay and elsewhere and I attended a labor/management meeting where Al was present and open to any and all questions. And I listened to views of other employees.
  
  I feel that Al Vogt deserves this raise. Yes, the timing is bad. People are hurting financially, jobs have been lost, there is uncertainty in many aspects of our lives. But, according to the information I've read, the Hospital Board has been trying to bring his salary up to market comparison for some time now and Al has refused to take pay raises in the past. As far as the argument of his raise versus the hospital cuts, I feel that they are two separate issues. The layoffs of the nursing home staff was inevitable and had been discussed at open forums that Al has held for employees over the past year or more. We were told that staff will have to be reduced when the nursing home residents are decreased from 41 to 28. I am very sorry that this had to happen but I don't see that there was any other way around it. I realize my job could be next as I am the lowest in seniority in our department. I don't feel that Al's raise would affect this one way or another.
  
  I have worked at other large facilities and have never had the personable contact with an administrator as I've had working at the Cook Hospital. This is a big plus in my eyes. Al has shown to me that he cares about this facility, its employees, residents, and patients. He has been a progressive thinker and has kept the Cook Hospital up to date and looking ahead. I'm not sure the CEO's on Wall Street have cared as much about their businesses mainly because they really don't have any stake in it except their own personal income. That's the difference with Al. He has lived and worked in this community for over forty years and he has not once tried to profit off anyone else's losses. I think we should all thank him for his years of service and not make him out as the bad guy, as people like to do to higher ups when times are tough (me included).
  
  I like to think of Al as "one of us".

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