Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community As midsummer is suddenly behind us, I hope most of you have experienced or soon to experience that long awaited summer vacation. It’s hard to believe that fall semester football practices will soon be teasing our young folks with heat stroke and body aches. But there still is time for another lake or beach trip, so book it if you can. We’ll certainly remember this as a green summer of never-ending lawn mowing. Coming here from Te

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community America 250…Quite the ring to it, huh? We must stay proud of it so that its preservation is secure for the next two and a half centuries! Its stature as the best country in the world is undeniable to most of us in the States, but its vulnerability still feels quite real. The next ten years will reveal a lot…let’s aspire for and work towards nothing changing the great things about our Country!! (Forgive me – it just feels like the r

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community So…you will find two two-week periods of activity below…and I thank you for the extended vacation that caused this carry over. The numbers reflect a softening summer spell, but not too bad of a dip. Any pay period with a Holiday included will result in a prorated volume of budgeted outpatient activity. Therefore, we are not too alarmed by the higher percentage of red values. The good news is that there are looming grant dollars (

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community This year is suddenly creeping towards its midpoint. And as such I can truly attest to it being the most interesting of times: 1.) AI is accelerating its influence on healthcare at near undiscernible speed, 2.) an aligned charge to disruptively innovate how healthcare operates is being cast out from Washington DC (and Topeka) at decibels higher than ever heard before, 3.) the RHTP funding opportunities for rural healthcare have at