Administrator Bi-Weekly Review For Two Weeks Ending July 19th, 2025

This summer continues to be rather eventful across our lands; with some things we just might have preferred not experiencing. It was nice to see some recent rain rescue our parched farmland, perhaps in the nick of time. And it will be nice to celebrate our historic little town’s two hundredth birthday, maybe with some still green lawns around town, in just a few days/weeks. For a while we have avoided a closed highway (for repairs) heading south out of town, and we are seeing a few housing opportunities open for the first time in quite a while. But our lake’s park system never really got open in time for summer’s customary local economic impact, and once again we are hearing of positive covid cases dotting our landscape – so be careful. We continue to be war-torn overseas, and we certainly don’t know where the next shoe will drop. Just this week our hospital temporarily lost a major portion of its rebuilt surgical team with the unfortunate accident suffered by Jeremy Thibodeaux and unexpected eye surgery of our hard-working Dr. Samani. We wish them both Godspeed in their complete recoveries, and we hope to support them and their families’ needs during this time. Some periods of time are just rockier than others, and that today seems to be where we find ourselves.

It is great that many are experiencing some fun and well-deserved vacations. I encourage others to do the same before this fast-moving summer turns into the first school bell ringing. Thanks to Stacy Zeigler for organizing and promoting the two annual golf events in the near future: Disc Golf tomorrow and Ball Golf in three weeks. Hope many of you are planning on participating.

It appears that our highest revenue month of the year, June, is being followed by our lowest revenue month of the year, July…but that is rural healthcare by definition: ups and downs. Our Board has approved a replacement Chemistry Analyzer this week, so by October we will have in-house the latest state-of-the-art producer of lab results currently on the market. We are fortunate to be able to stay abreast of most emerging technologies in this small hospital. For that I am very grateful.

Thanks, and have a great two weeks, as we head into celebrating two hundred years. And again, thanks to all our team for consistently caring for our patients in a great manner!

-Kevin Leeper, CEO