Administrator’s Bi-Weekly Review (April 26th, 2025)

These past two weeks have been tasked with a committed and hard-pressed effort to complete the 2025 -2026 application to the KS Community Service Tax Credit program. As most of you know, we have selected the project of expanding our Surgical abilities by adding a second OR Suite to our footprint. The space vacated by EMS is a convenient 50+ feet down a common corridor, and it sounds from the visiting architect this week that we can accommodate this conversion at an “affordable” cost. Perhaps I should say it is affordable if we can get some outside assistance, starting with the $200K we have asked for from the Tax Credit Program. It will be a somewhat on hold and anxious few weeks until we hear back on the award designation (or not). I think we have a good story, and we had some great last minute pledge support and Community letter writing in favor of this project! Thanks to all of you who did so! The real victors of this project, if we can get it accomplished, will be those future residents who have the unfortunate need to have their hips repaired or replaced. They will be able to do so locally!!

I welcome again Bryce Scott, CRNA, who has reaffirmed joining us effective May 1st, to share with Shaun McEuen, the coverage of our Anesthesia needs on a 24/7 basis. Lack of housing at the end of 2024 forced him to delay his start time, and the gap in time brought forth other challenges in moving a family, as well as other opportunities for him to possibly not require a move. So, since we have got to know you some over the past few weeks, Bryce, we are all very excited to hear this news.

April’s better weather seems to have softened service demands just a little bit…the red values are way up on our green values this pay period. But at least through quarter one, we are reporting good financial figures on the current-year to prior-year comparative performance. I want to thank our Accounting and HR duo of Lisa Lee and Terri Lemay for their hard work and preparation in driving the rollout of our new Payroll system in the past couple of weeks. I am excited to hear of some of the features of this new software and of some time savings it should yield to those who prepare payroll moving forward.

It is a busy season for our students, parents, and graduates, and I wish all of you the best as you wrap up another school year! And to conclude, we all give our heartfelt sympathies to the mother, siblings, extended family, MCH family, and all who are grieving the loss of Theresa McGannon, who left us this past week and is now free from battling cancer. We all miss you!

Thanks also to all our staff who give themselves to our patients, every day! Have a great next two weeks!

Kevin Leeper, CEO