Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review For Two Weeks Ending November 7th, 2026

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community

This week closes with a tribute to our Veterans, celebrated every year on the 11^th of November. If we ever should feel a need to be grateful for those protecting our freedom, I cannot think of a better time…and not for just the one day of the year. For us to encourage and help preserve our enlisted men’s and women’s willingness to serve in today’s craziness should be a conscious effort for all of us. And we also have our own local healthcare stars who deserve recognition during this pay period:  our Advanced Practice Nurses and our Radiology Techs just celebrated their National Recognition Weeks; therefore, thanks go to Haley, Casey, Chelsea, Katie, and Lisa, as well as to Corky, Deanna, Kirstin, Tristyn, and Isabel for each serving our patients so well throughout the year! And a thanks to the families of those members serving in our armed forces, and the families of our APRNs and Rad Techs who must endure their loved ones away from home for lots of odd hours.

It is safe to say that a climate of change remains in our midst, as if it rarely leaves us…but last week’s election has assured us of more. Healthcare seems to be a strong focus for change from so many directions, as the topics of ai driven technology, affordability, and its outright complexity seem to invite continuous pokes and attacks from all sides, keeping healthcare in the forefront of national debate and discussion. The fact that healthcare is both an art and a science, a right and a privilege, and a fundamental need for our fast-paced societies, I think we must keep embracing change with the conviction of making the industry better. And it primarily gets better because of our free enterprise and our open market competition that knows that quality outcomes and satisfied patients will come for those seeking measurable improvements Can you tell I just sat through some recent lectures? Just know, my friends at MCH, that change is a good and necessary thing when embraced with purpose.

We formally applied for our RHPT Year 2 Capital Grant today…coming in at a hefty $2.344 million request. I feel we will need each and every one of your prayers to stay in contention for an award, but our team put together a good plan, and we should have as much right to an award as anyone else.  But there will be stiff competition…we will know the winners during the third week of December. I do wish to thank those community members who donated to this same project during last week’s Match Day – as many have done now for three straight years! In the meantime, as November is upon us, we will work on closing out an interesting and possibly memorable year. The home stretch will be a big key, as it is in any race.

Thanks to all who put our patients first! AND MAY THE BRAVES KEEP ON WINNING!!

-Kevin Leeper, CEO