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Staffing and leadership

• Welcomed our new CEO, Eric "Max" Neal, in August.
• Hired Janice Pendergast as Laboratory Services Department Manager and Kim Pederson as Quality Director.
• Promoted Carey Young to Director of Nursing.
• Promoted registered nurse Colleen Littlejohn to Assistant Chief Nursing Officer (ACNO) as part of the current
• CNO's retirement succession plan.
• Promoted registered nurses Cindy Farley and Amy Horejsi to acute care and operating room coordinators, respectively.
• Recruited enough new nurses to reduce traveling nurses from 15 to 5.

Quality and certification

• Radiology Department:
  
  • Completed a successful MQSA (Mammography Quality Standards Act) survey.
  • Completed a successful Washington State Department of Health CT and x-ray inspection.
• Hospital medical laboratory:
  • Updated and renewed all CLIA Medical Test Site licenses.
  • Implemented reticulocyte count testing.

Awards

• Arbor Health–Morton Hospital Physical Therapy won the five-star Award for Excellence in Healthcare from PRC.
• Arbor Health–Morton Hospital Emergency Department won the four-star Award for Excellence in Healthcare from PRC.
• Rapid Care Clinic won The Chronicle's Best of Lewis County first place award in the urgent care category.
• Arbor Health won first place in KMNT's Listeners' Choice Award for Hospital, Place to Work, Physical Therapy and Urgent Care.
• Received the 2025 Critical Access Hospital Achievement of Quality Healthcare Gold Award from the Washington State Hospital Association.

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