Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community Every October, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, our Mammography unit seems to reach peak of year usage rates, and we owe this to our Radiology team, led by Corky Messer and our ordering physicians, who through the years have collectively raised the awareness of Breast Health in all of the communities we serve. As our clients seem to have learned, early detection of cancer is the best approach for detection, and we are grateful to our customers for cooperating with our strong push to be tested, whether it is in October or whenever your physician suggests such. This week we had a nice visit from our Congressman, Derek Schmidt, and it reminds me to remind all of you that single votes matter as we approach our mid-term elections…need I remind you of our very own mayoral race last year at this time, won by a single vote. Please don’t let others decide who our elected officials or new laws are - and do take time and interest in knowing why you vote for who / what you prefer. The other thing that Schmidt’s visit reminded me of is the many bills recently passed into law, or may still be concluded before year end, that are going to affect many of our lives starting on January 1, 2027. Some of these reside in our hospital space and are designed with efforts to control healthcare costs (not a bad thing in motivation alone) but handed down by bureaucrats who are not in touch with healthcare practicality. One change is to pay for some common procedures (joint replacements, as an example) with a reduced-price tag and in one bundled payment to the hospital – who will have to figure out how to share the one payment with all the many contributing parties (some with only a loose relationship – pathology, for example) who may provide associated services over a 60-day time window. It feels like another administrative burden to hospitals that complicates healthcare funding, instead of simplifying or even reducing the overall cost. I still feel pretty strongly that it is very difficult to reduce costs in an inflationary era – anyone else agree with that? It is certainly imperative that we continually seek more efficiency in how we design and execute many of our workflows. As technology brings us new tools, we have to evaluate their merits and ultimately embrace the options that free us up more time for spending with our patients, either in delivering for their desired / ordered services, or in building better rapport with their needs. Thanks to all of you for being dedicated to MCH and this still highly regarded industry. And do enjoy the days you have off! Also have a great next two weeks and as always - extend your best care to our patients. -Kevin Leeper, CEO

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community As we ease into the final quarter of 2026, we pause to recognize today as National Homemade Cookie Day. I hope each of you get your fix for the day (tomorrow’s never too late), and I thank our kitchen for serving up a delicious Choco Chip variety as today’s desert. We have also had our ease back into a football season, where some of our teams have had their bubbles already burst…but at least our Chiefs seem to have rediscovered their mojo. And those Braves appear to be a force!!! As we now see the majority of our year in the rear-view mirror, it is apparent that our year after year snapshot is not going to enjoy the rather amazing growth we had been experiencing for the previous three year-ends. Overall, our 2026 is at best holding its own to 2025 - with a few noted highlights, as well as a few head-scratching lags to prior year’s numbers. I want to thank the few department managers that have come to me with these same recognitions and have hypothesized with me regarding some of the reasons that might have attributed to this tapering off. I have changed up this newsletter and added a specific analysis of our various statistics and how they each fared when comparing the like three quarters of both 2025 and 2026. See the grid at the end of this report. I have offered only 1-2 contributing factors on each of the variances, and if anyone wants to make additions to these reasons, please share them with me and I may forward to this audience in the next edition. Variances are really good things to take note of, as they either represent opportunities for improvement or opportunities to stay the course. And probably the best variance in this whole list is the very first one: it never hurts to grow cash by 13% over prior year, especially with the growing costs of doing business!! Let’s hope we stay on that course. Though I might have noted a few responsible individuals who helped drive some of the changes in this report, I chose not to, as I trust it is highly discernable who is responsible. I am very hopeful that my next biweekly report will be able to focus on outcomes released by our newly formed network called PrairieLINK, an affiliation of four rural hospitals and Stormont Vail. I have referred to them briefly in the past, but what we are about to unfold will be very exciting, once we can attach some definitive timelines. Add in some projected releases from Oracle Health – “coming sometime” since last January, and I feel we have done too much hurrying up and waiting for a few months now. But some good things are getting very close to our midst. Until then, do have a great next two weeks and do extend your best care to our patients. -Kevin Leeper, CEO

Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community Not to tell you anything you don’t already know, but this year is flying by…nearly ¾’s over. Ya wake up and it’s Monday morning, ugh, but before you know it, here it is Friday’s cheer again. It’s not like “nothing is happening in between” …I think actually it is mental drain due to data bombardment that desensitizes us from tracking time, so it just moves briskly along despite us. Maybe times are no different at all, but it seems harder today to save time in a bottle…and I do love to hum Jim Croce’s famous lyrics. Holidays and Conventions in the same week – another couple things that distort our sense of time management…but aren’t both fun and worthwhile! I have to admit the KHA’s speakers seem to get better with each passing year, and last weeks were no exception. I am so glad MCH had more than a full table in attendance and I hope each of you who went are sharing good things you learned. Holiday weeks rarely see as much activity as is seen in our hospital’s routine weeks, and last week may have reached a low point for our weekly 2026 statistics. I have reported similar drops in previous Septembers, so this is nothing to be alarmed about. Afterall, any year is going to have its lowest two-week stretch, so I am happy to predict that we just had ours, and it is behind us. Happy to report that we did receive our first money from the RHTP grants: $100,000 for participating in the exchange of Evidence Based Metrics with the KU Collaborative Group! AND…we received word back from our Interim Midyear Cost Report that our expected quarter million dollars will almost be fully recovered for the inclusion of our EMS team in the calculations! It is so nice when estimations evolve into fruition. As we celebrate National Assisted Living Week this week, I do wish to promote the “happy place” that our Council Grove Assisted Living Center affords its many residents. We do have a few apartments available so please come visit or call Laverne at the Center to learn more (620-767-5600). Do have a great next two weeks and do extend your best care to our patients. -Kevin Leeper, CEO

On this page... History Board of Directors MCH Foundation MCH Auxiliary About Us Morris County Hospital is a county‑owned, not-for‑profit, 21 bed critical access hospital located in historic Council Grove, Kansas. Personal, high tech care is available to all ages from the newborn to the elderly. We believe the support process is very important to the healing process and we encourage the patient and their family to be involved in decisions and care. Message from the Administration... Welcome to Morris County Hospital. We at Morris County Hospital are dedicated to providing quality healthcare, professionally and compassionately, with the latest in technology. As you navigate our web site you will learn about the quality care, highly trained and compassionate doctors, nurses, and other professional staff as well as the wide range of services that we offer. We are very proud to be recognized as one of the 32 top performing Critical Access Hospitals in the nation.There are 1,300 Critical Access Hospitals and we are ranked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid as one of the top 32 based on National performance benchmarks. Morris County and the surrounding areas are very fortunate to have as wide a range of healthcare services and highly qualified professional staff available locally. We thank you for trusting us to care for you and your loved ones. Kevin A. Leeper CEO, Morris County Hospital Our History In 1917 the first hospital of Morris County was established by Dr. Bert Elba Miller. It was called the Council Grove Hospital. It was an old house remolded with 10 patient rooms and staffed by Dr. B. E. Miller and two nurses, Bell Benson, RN and Gladys Stillman, RN. Over the years Doctors James Woodmansee and C.C. Kerr joined him in practice in the county Dr. William McCunniff, Dr. Roy Drake, Dr. Robert W. Blackburn & Dr. B.A. Yost. On the hospitals first board of trustees appointed by the County Commissioners were Frank Warnica, George Blythe, W.E. Hembrow, and R.E. Griffith. An architect was hired July 1947 to draw plans for a hospital on North Washington Street, Council Grove. A petition circulated requesting that the county take over the Dr. Miller Hospital. F. D. Ferguson was instrumental in this petition and presented it to the County Commissioners, on October 11, 1948. The Commissioners rejected the request but reversed the decision in December 1948. The county took over the operations of the Council Grove Hospital (Dr. Miller’s Hospital) in January 1949. After 8 years of planning the Hospital on the hill was started. The project was to cost $419,885. May 1953 the hospital received $167,954 in Federal Funding and $253,375 in county funding. The ground breaking was held on May 25, 1953. The building was dedicated August 22, 1954 and patients were moved from the (Miller Hospital) Council Grove Hospital to the Morris County Hospital. Additions were added in 1958, 1978, 1994, 2001, 2006, and 2011. With the addition of physicians, the space was running out. There were great changes in technology in health care since the 1960’s. Back then, nearly all hospitals were 100 percent inpatient services. Times had changed; 80-85% of patients were treated as outpatients in 2000. On March 15, 2001 Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Morris County Hospital Renovation/Expansion Project was held for the largest expansion project. The renovation project estimated at 6.3 mil. took three years. In 2007, the Morris County Hospital became a Critical Access Hospital. In February 2007 the Foundation held a Capital Campaign. The Campaign funds to be used to purchase the Electronic Medical Records System, CT Scanner, Mammography Machine, PACS system (Picture Archival Computer System) MRI and an addition to the Family Health Center to accommodate the physicians, patients and staff. Morris County Hospital continues to keep up with modern technology and provide services at our hospital so patients don’t have to travel great distance for care and therapy. Board of Directors Rita Noll Chairman Steve Morgan Vice Chairman Jessica Hemme Heather Honas Secretary Tom Moxley Marty Wright Treasurer Morris County Hospital Foundation The Morris County Hospital Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, was founded in 1987 by the Morris County Hospital Board. The goal of the Foundation is to raise funds for the support of Morris County Hospital and its programs in Morris County and the surrounding areas. Since the beginning, the Foundation has purchased or built three satellite clinics, providing services in Alta Vista, White City, and Cottonwood Falls. The foundation has raised money for the hospital including the latest Emergency Room Expansion/Renovation Project 2018. This project also included the OB Rooms, two ADA Rooms, Helipad Ambulance, and a Secure Room. The Foundation, with the help of local donors, recently purchases a 3D Mammography machine in 2024 for the Radiology department. MCH Foundation Mission Statement The Morris County Hospital Foundation is organized for the benefit of the Morris County Hospital. Learn More... Donation Form For more information on how to give a gift to the Morris County Hospital, contact the Executive Director, Stacy Zeigler. She would be happy to meet with you at your convenience to talk with you about these options for giving. You can reach her by email at szeigler@mrcohosp.com or call 620-767-6811, ext. 148. Morris County Hospital Auxiliary The Morris County Hospital Auxiliary was founded in 1986. The goal was to make positive supporting contributions to the hospital and the community by helping assist the staff in providing the best patient care possible. MCH Auxiliary Mission Statement The purpose of the Morris County Hospital Auxiliary shall be to act as an advocate for the Morris County Hospital. The Auxiliary shall assist the Hospital Staff in promoting the health and welfare of the community and shall engage in fund raising activities to benefit the Hospital. What kind of activities & projects does the Auxiliary sponsor? Pediatric Projects Every child who is a patient at Morris County Hospital receives a pediatric bag with a stuffed toy or color books and crayons. The toy choice depends on age appropriateness. Scholarships The Auxiliary awards two scholarships to Morris County students who are pursuing careers in a medically related field such as Nursing, Lab, Radiology, Physical Therapy, Etc. Scholarship applications can be picked up from an auxiliary member at Morris County Hospital. Education Each year, the Auxiliary along with the hospital staff choose an educational topic to present to the community. Fund Raisers The Auxiliary raises money in order to buy items needed by the hospital through fund raising events throughout the year: Gift Shop - all proceeds from the Gift Shop are used to fund hospital projects. Bake-less Sale - you may make a donation instead of baking. R.A.D.A Cutlery Sales Who can join the Auxillary? You may call the hospital information desk or contact any Auxiliary member and they can provide you with information. The dues are $5.00 a year (payable to Membership Chairman). For more information, or to become a member please call 620-767-6811.

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