We have entered 2022 with a hope-filled future given the resilience with which the LMH Health team served through an unprecedented second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trustees hope that our community recognizes the effective and collaborative leadership provided throughout a year that presented significant challenges. Despite difficulties related to the ongoing pandemic, the LMH Health team met the 2021 objectives set to assure our promise as a partner for lifelong health, expanding access to healthcare through inclusion, diversity and equity integration, negotiating payer contracts to ensure affordable, high-quality care, planning for a strategic clinical partnership that is already bringing more clinical specialties to our community and strengthening relationships with our community of physicians and advanced practice providers — all while meeting the hospital’s budget targets to ensure financial sustainability.
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We must acknowledge the pressures faced by the workforce in 2021 in a period of industry-wide staff shortages, workplace stress caused by an unrelenting COVID-19 patient demand, and the impact of contract and traveler staffing. Leadership has evaluated and adjusted policies to support flexibility and adaptability of the workplace. Our current and future financial health will support values-based workplace innovation and fairness. There is a popular business saying — “Hope is not a strategy” — but that presumes that hopefulness is passive. I would argue that hope fuels passion and that passion is at the heart of the LMH Health promise to our community, our staff, our physicians and advanced practice providers. Our hope is active, engaged and committed to being your partner for lifelong health.
Beth Llewellyn Board Chair, LMH Health
