Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review (March 24th)

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community

For Pay Period Ending March 15th

Quite the start of March, on through Spring Break Week! It just seems like a little bit of everything has wanted to show its face to the tune of the spring-like weather that we have been enjoying, including a mini blizzard that never quite materialized a couple of days ago…thank goodness. The circle of life has certainly been realized inside the MCH greater family, with the recent arrival of three newborns in a three-day window and the sad passage from this world of a few dear loved ones. May each respective family find joy for their future or seek comfort from their memories.

Through a somewhat unexpected news release, MCH was awarded a designation of making the Top 100 Rural Hospital in 2025 list, a couple of weeks ago, by the Chartis Group, LLC, a data analytics company. Our overall score of 97.1 actually elevates us to the Top 40 of all 2,100 rural hospitals across the Country, which Chartis annually evaluates with the use of 36 different metrics across eight different categories. They use all publicly available data from required reporting submissions of any facility that participates in the Medicare program (which is virtually every hospital). The data for this release was from the year ending 2023, as there is a lag in gathering all this data from hospitals with different fiscal year cycles. In a separate release, Chartis separately honors the top 20 hospitals (of the top 100), so now that we better know their criteria used in this analysis, we can set ourselves an objective to improve our scores in our lower two categories, enough in 2024 and 2025, to achieve that upper tier ranking. I will be preparing  a more detailed news release for our Community on this distinction in the next couple of weeks.

March Madness can now be legitimately experienced, as the games have officially begun…may your favorite team win, or at least your bracket do well. If you are not a basketball fan, there still seems to be a growing number of TV channel options popping up every week. Better yet, why don’t we shake off the winter doldrums and start getting active again. I am speaking to myself as much as anyone else in similar shoes. Have a great next two weeks!

Kevin Leeper, CEO