Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review For Two Weeks Ending March 28th, 2026

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community

It does feel like Spring is well under way in Central Kansas! If one last ice storm forces me to scrape a windshield for the first time this winter (truly would be the first!), then I will be ok with it…not happy about it, but OK, because a blast won’t last long at this point. Now if we could just get some rain…and not so much to flood our parks this year.

I want to give a departmental SHOUT OUT this week. And the winner goes to our evolving Surgery Team!! The team consists of Jeremy, Vanessa, Sam, Tabatha, Mercedes, Morgan, Abby, Beverly, and Shaun / Bryce! And of course, they would not have a lot to do without our Surgeons: Lora and Brett Seigle, and Drs. Samani and Hunt!! Last Friday this team turned out nine cases for Dr. Hunt to mark a day absolutely worth shouting out! I feel certain it’s the highest number of non-eye cases we have done in one day in many a year! Nine satisfied patients left here that day and I just want to thank the team for a SUPER JOB DONE. And until you actually execute a day like that, you don’t go in thinking it can be done as efficiently as it was. So, I hope and trust our team learned something about themselves and are now confident that it can be done again and even reach the ten-spot! Go Team!

Another three RHTP grants were completed today, with Morris County Hospital attached as a participant to each! None of the three “network oriented” grants were alike, though two very similar, and the rules were clearly identified as saying a hospital can participate in multiple applications. We will hope for the best and be happy with any one or two of the three…certainly we won’t win three for three????? The capital grant submitted two weeks ago is supposed to announce its awardees in two more weeks.

I am grateful for what appears to be three solid months out of the 2026 gate. We do have a great team across all of our aisles here at MCH, who collectively keep things churning day in and day out. And this week we welcome into our folds the team led by Dr. John Mosier in Herington: Leann, Nicole and just yesterday being joined by our own Business Office staff member, Kayla Riffel-Condon. They have been preparing all of this week to be ready for a reopening as an MCH Clinic on Monday, April 6^th. Their Clinic Manager, Sara Roberts, has done a great job planning for this big day!

Thanks for always putting our patients FIRST. Have a Blessed Easter weekend!

-Kevin Leeper, CEO