Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review For Two Weeks Ending May 9th, 2026

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community

We are celebrating Hospital Week this week, and it has been fun to see many of you letting your hair down and joining in on the “Dress the Decade Day”, as each progressive day has moved us through the fifties to the nineties. A shout out to the Team Building Committee, who once again brainstormed a new theme, new treats, and new ways of recognizing each of you for being stellar partners in what we strive to do each day: serve our patients in a TOP TIER manner! Thanks to each of you for persevering through sometimes hectic and stressful times and also for taking on side duties when times are a little bit on the tamer side. Catch up work is always waiting for us in healthcare. I hope you all feel appreciated…that is easier done when you stay tuned into appreciating others! The work we do simply can’t be done without the whole team working as one.

I alert everyone – and we just found out about this on Wednesday – that we will have an outside surveyor visit us late morning on Monday, the 18^th. Her name is Megan Martin, from Sunflower Health Plan, which is one of the three Managed Medicaid Contractors for the State of Kansas. She will want to know that we know our emergency preparedness / fire plans, that we practice effective infection control techniques, that we inform our patients of their rights. This will be an abbreviated version of the conventional State Survey, but very important that we do well, or we could lose the privilege of treating the Sunflower beneficiaries or policy holders. So, my alert of two weeks ago has quickly come to fruition. Please tidy things up around your area as best as you can between now and then! And do know where your policy books are located or where to find them on HealthDocs.

I want to close with a Big Congratulations to all of you who are home to or related to a 2026 Graduate. It is milestone moment for so many at this time of year, and we can hope that some of these graduates get drawn into a healthcare career! Enjoy your celebrations with them.

The same encouragement applies with this letter: please keep our patient’s needs and expectations foremost in your daily work thoughts, and I do thank you for holding onto that mindset. Have a great next two weeks!

-Kevin Leeper, CEO