Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review For Two Weeks Ending April 11th, 2026

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community

March Madness is behind us…congrats to Deb Benning for securing the local pool… and away we go into the busy cattle moving month of April, as the green grass is already looking lush all over our Flint Hills, along with some continuous burning.

We are showing three solid first quarter months behind us, even as April has softened a bit, volume wise. We just got word late this week that statewide, the release of multiple awaiting RHTP grant awards has been pushed back a month to May 15^th, to better rank and spread out the abundant number of worthy applications. Not sure what that will mean for the four submissions we have applied for to date, but we can hope that at least a couple of ours will rise to an offering status. The new rules for significant dollars available through the Evidence Based Practice pool of funding is just now being released, and I believe we will be qualified for participation in that program without a formal application - both through our hospital and through our four RHCs.

Our onsite 2025 Forvis Audit work has been completed, and from early dialogues, it appears that little has been discovered to alter our prior December YTD estimated results. Forvis anticipates a June presentation of their final report, a good bit earlier then they managed last year.

Our Department Managers were introduced to a Lean / Six Sigma Training Program this week, which was received with a lot of energy and great dialogues around four identified opportunities for improvement within our operations. Further work and training in these four areas will be focused on over the next few weeks at the staff level, so that more ideas can be generated from those in the front lines. I look forward to this process for problem solving to be adopted into our daily work routines. More to be reported on these four areas in the near future.  

Just another word of encouragement to keep our patient’s needs and expectations foremost in your daily work thoughts, and I do thank you for that mindset. Have a great next two weeks!

-Kevin Leeper, CEO