Continued Dedicated Service to Our Community
For Pay Period Ending February 15th
Thirty days into our new Federal Administration, as well as into our requisite State law making sessions, is enough to be quite the fatiguing distraction if you open your ears to the constant clamor, the reactions, and the outright chatter clatter that envelopes us through today’s digital bombardments. It’s sometimes a wonder we can manage to conduct routine business as usual. Changes of many kinds are certainly in the wind, and it will take some extra study to keep up with where we just might land…but I just want to keep our sails tacking smoothly for the course of MCH. We just need to try to manage what is in our own spheres of influence.
The weather has continued to compromise our smooth course, but all in all we are still trending in a growth pattern relative to same months of our prior year. Some degree of growth is the only way we can contend with the continued inflationary squeezes we all are feeling (which is nowhere near as low as the reported 3%). We knew we were going to start the year with an elevated payroll, but rewarding our staff with a true investment in them (at the end of 2024) was the right and just thing to do. Adjusting our pay-scale has already paid dividends through our relative ease of filling several recent vacancies. I do continue worrying over the amazing cost increases we are experiencing in our pharmaceutical sector, which is partially driven by new drugs being approved at quite rapid rates.
As this weekend unfolded, it is great to see a period of prolonged warmth to refreshen our outlooks. Perhaps it will help curtail the abundance of flu we are dealing with and hasten folks’ recoveries. One of our Morris County native, Dr. Diane Hunt, returns to Council Grove this coming week for her first day of both Surgery and Clinic work at MCH. Feel free to schedule an appointment with her by calling the MCH Medical Clinic.
Thanks for each of you who daily deliver attentive patient care, and to all of you: do something worth remembering in the next two weeks. We should also give thanks to the Chiefs...they gave us another fun long-ride season - just a real tough-to-swallow ending. I do hope you all weathered the recent cold and snow as well as possible. Have a great two weeks leading into SPRING Break!
Kevin Leeper, CEO
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