A large contingency of people were on hand Wednesday evening at the Silverberg building to share thoughts regarding Murray County Medical Center’s management alliance. The facility held the meeting to share information regarding MCMC and get feelers as to if the general public has a preference between Sanford or Avera for the facility’s management agreement.
Dr. Snow welcomed the audience to the community forum. He introduced the hospital board and shared an opening statement.
Interim CEO Michael Ladevich took the microphone and helped to ‘set the stage’ as to why the meeting was being held. Ladevich commented on his first impressions of the MCMC facility as being a beautiful operation and felt MCMC offers excellent providers and staff members. “Surprisingly,” he said, “MCMC is very high tech.” Ladevich shared with his extensive opportunity to see different facilities, he feels MCMC has a very high tech nature. “There’s a lot of modern, up-to-date equipment. You are as equipped as any suburban hospital.” Ladevich continued stating he feels MCMC can do 95% of what the big city hospitals in Sioux Falls and the Twin Cities can do….”and we can do it better.”
Murray County Medical Center was recently recognized as being in the top 6% of the hospitals in the nation. This recognition was based, in part, on the in-patient scores received from CAQH. “This means we do a good job,” shared Ladevich. “What are you going to get out of going to Sioux Falls, Twin Cities, or Mayo Clinic? Not a whole lot more – unless you are really ill.”
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