Meeting of March 5, 2024

good evening I'd like to call this meeting uh of the Davis County Fiscal Court to order this is our first meeting of uh March 2024 if you would please uh stand uh for the prayer and the [Music] pledge dear heavenly father we pause and we thank you for the many blessings you bestowed upon us we thank you first for the gift that you've blessed us with the gift of Freedom as we live in this country we thank you for the gift of sound Minds that we can make decisions that that might be pleasing you we ask you to bless us guide us guide our hearts help us to to be open to forgiving our neighbors who might hurt us because they are hurting help us to ponder your will and

seek your your guidance as we do all the things we do in the course of our days whether we're here in the public eye or whether we're somewhere more private we ask you to Simply guide us we ask your mercy as we approach the Easter season we ask for healing and blessings to those who are suffering and those who are battling illnesses those we know personally and those in our community that we don't even know are sick we ask you to bless each of our fellow neighbors according to the needs known to you we pray these things in the name of Jesus pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with li justice for all thank you we've got a good crowd

with us this evening um there was a time commissioner Conor where you were the only person out here is Mr public so yes yes my predecessor called him Mr public because he was out there frequently yes um anyway commissioner marksberry is on the road she was going to join us via zoom and she texted not long ago and said she's stuck in traffic somewhere and she'll join us when she can so uh just wanted everyone to be aware of that uh Brooke one consideration for presentation a Owensboro Health Community report 2024 we have our good friends from ensboro Health mark would you like to come up and start or you going to have Gavin do this okay all right if you would uh yeah oh I'm sorry yeah if you would uh put my hand up so I have to look at him no thank you all for having us um judge Casten

Commissioners um community and we're here tonight I'm chair of the board Gavin Roberts uh live here in Owensboro Davis County I guess I'm supposed to give my address right am I supposed to do that all right um here to present uh the good things going on with our Community Health System wboro health and I say community because this is and we had a several different meetings and this is your all's hospital um it is the community hospital um it's a nonprofit hospital and we want everybody to to feel welcome and we feel proud to present this community report to the county and the city um once a year to do that so our mission with wboro health is to ex we exist to heal the sick and to improve the communities that we serve and we truly um mean that every meeting that we have we start with that mission statement so that is that is Forefront everything and that's what we focus on on the agenda everything comes back to that that uh the purpose uh that we're that we're here so with that being said I want to introduce Mr Mark Marsh um CEO with is going he'll be here three years this summer um built this very this very well stute team behind them um I can

promise we were some meetings U several of s some meetings in Nashville on Thursday and the expertise and stuff that they're bringing to this community healthwise and just expertise Economic Development wise as well Mark will will allude to some of that um is second to none uh we are very lucky to have wboro health here in our community um and it is an economic engine it's the largest employer west of Louisville um you know it's over 5,000 um employees if you consider all the the different um contracts and everything um but every one of these U I guess the front two front rows here um Mark will introduce them but very very PL to work with each one of them every day so I it's I take a lot of pride in Owensboro Health take a lot of pride no brought in Davis County being from here um but I can promise you that every one of these folks right here do too um to their core so introduce Mark Marsh welc good evening judge Commissioners thank you um feels like it was last week we did this I actually look forward to this I really do and I know I get a chance to meet with each of you throughout the year and so just as

Gavin said uh thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight present to you and uh and others here in the community just to kind of hear about your hospital as as Gavin said so um I know you got a lot to cover tonight so I won't go through and introduce every single team member because it might take a while but I would like for him to stand up because I really want you to understand um the dedication and I'll talk through a little bit of this um what they uh commit themselves to every day and it's simply put and and you'll see in our mission statement but uh uh together we can do better and I think that's a true um just a simple analogy as it relates to healthcare so I'm going to ask this great team that I get to work with every day just to stand up please and uh if I went through the years of service we got a couple of our folks in the back here as well but uh um there's thousands years years of service but a lot of years of service here U from a very dedicated group who every day who live out that mission to work to improve the health and the lives that we get to serve every day so thank you guys being able to work with you every day so let me jump right through um am I do I have a clicker or do I need to here we go next there you go this is perfect that's great thank you we we'll move past those pretty quickly there you go um as Gavin said certainly our mission

statement um we're blessed with 16 great board members along with a great executive team um those 16 board members and Gavin has led that and uh many of these folks majority of them I used to be say they all reside in Davis County but we now certainly through the the recent changes here and thank you for that um 15 to 16 reside in Davis County um ABY and I'll talk through the region what we serve but uh we're blessed with 16 very dedicated who who love this this Hospital love this health system and really understand the importance of Health Care throughout these 18 counties so again Gavin thank you for your leadership next slide so these are our six core commit I've shared it and again I'll just I'm not going to read through these verbatim but this is what we live to these are our values our our core principles every day and as I'm just wrapping up now doing Town Hall meetings with all of our team members I've just wrapping I got three left uh there'll be 25 Town Halls we've done over the last five weeks uh and we'll have over 3,000 of our team members who have heard um kind of where we're at the State of the Union but we we touch on this because they're the value they're the ones that go through that every day and and I think about in every one of our businesses and the changes we've experienced but I think about the most important up there is that teamwork without that teamwork you can only imagine for every one of our businesses what it would have been like and so I

really appreciate what what is the the core of of our team in Owensboro health is is our team members and so again I just want to kind of walk you through those core commitments um I'm going to go next slide I'm going to kind of touch on some of these as we get through because I want to keep us on track and and certainly allow some time for if you guys some questions at the end but obviously you've seen these are the 18 counties that we serve serve and we kind of call our service here uh it is growing um but as we see that roughly almost 600,000 lives are the folks who we get a touch in in some capacity in a lot of different ways and I'll I'll share different ways you can see the landmarks up there whether it's hospitals entory settings Health plexes uh physician clinics and so on but again a lot of lies that we touch throughout those 18 counties next slide so these are the uh various uh different hospitals and so we always think about health system as hospitals but we know we're we're moving in a time frame where hospitals were really the secondary nature we got to have them but we've we've gone uh advaned so much in healthcare and so much is more in the ambulatory outpatient setting so you're seeing more of that footprint in in doing things out throughout the region that's not necessarily attached to the hospital but again these are just some of the the bricks and mortar we like to say I'm proud of the number of the