AMH's CFO seeing progress

AUBURN - After months of uncertainty, and several years of significant losses, the top financial officer at Auburn Memorial Hospital is confident the most troublesome problems are now part of the past.

Skaneateles resident John Baran was born at AMH in 1946. He's now the hospital's chief financial officer, and an official statement of his birth is framed on his office wall. The Baran family has lived in Skaneateles for the past 13 years.

In the past four years, AMH has had $15 million in losses; it filed for bankruptcy in April 2007. But for the year-to-date, there has been an operating gain of close to $500,000.