Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review (May 15th, 2025)

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community

For Pay Period Ending May 10th

I write this during HOSPITAL WEEK, and in doing so I just want to recognize each of you that play an active role in Morris County Hospital’s success: our great Staff members, our visiting Physicians and Providers, our supportive vendors/contractors, our Board, and of course our Patients! Together we create a viable and enduring Community Hospital! Thank you One and All!

Just a note for those who may have missed it…but last Friday we had a nice going away/retirement party for a notable long-term Physician for our Community. Dr. Michael Reynolds performed nearly 2,400 cataract/eye surgeries in our hospital over his thirty years of serving our area. He was a true icon in his field and will be greatly missed. We are hoping one of his two colleagues, Dr Anniker or Dr. Pole, will be able to fit us in once a month, despite their now busier schedules. We do wish Doc Reynolds a well-deserved retirement in his Colorado cabin.

If you have some concerns, four months into our year, that we have routinely been seeing many more red scoring metrics than green ones, you are pleasingly observant but may need some perspective. Simply from an overall revenue generating target, we budgeted a 14.5% increase above a very impressive year of growth in 2024. We have fallen 7.3% short of meeting that target through four months, which leaves us short on many of the component parts that generate that growth. But on the optimistic side, we are still 6.7 % ahead of 2024 revenue through the same four months, and if we were grading current numbers to prior year numbers, we would look a whole lot greener. But increasing your expected budgets is the only true way to counter the uncontrollable inflationary costs which we have been experiencing for the past 2-3 years. It doesn’t mean that we will automatically attract such growth, but if we work with a mindset of continuous quality improvement as a daily driver…we can secure those referrals from incremental satisfied customers, which will assure more growth. That is my challenge to each of you. We need to be all about satisfying each person who chooses us to care for their health!

Thanks to all of you that come to work each day to make that happen! Have a great next two weeks! And once again: HAPPY HOSPITAL WEEK!

Kevin Leeper, CEO