HeyJaredLeading Rural Health Care
Real leaders. Real challenges. Real impact in rural health.Rural health care is personal, complex and deeply rooted in community.
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Third Time's the Charm for Sullivan County (opens the original)
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Rural hospital leadership rarely comes with a second act — let alone a third. In this episode, Martha Gragg, CEO of Sullivan County Memorial Hospital, shares what it means to lead the hospital in her own hometown of Milan, Missouri, for the third time in her career. She talks about the pull that keeps bringing her home, the county's push to replace a hospital building dating to 1953, and the community organizing that helped pass a half-cent sales tax to help fund it. She also shares how Sullivan
Lean Thinking Meets Rural Health Leadership (opens the original)
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Rural hospitals face no shortage of complex problems, and Don Carpenter believes the solution often starts with getting the data right. In this episode, Carpenter, CEO of Cedar County Memorial Hospital, shares how his background in Lean Six Sigma and project management shapes his approach to leading a critical access hospital. He discusses rebuilding trust in the community, restoring service lines like surgery and stroke certification, and why he believes rural hospitals do their best work when
The Hospital That Wouldn't Let Him Leave (opens the original)
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What does it take to turn around a struggling rural hospital? In this episode, Bill Hellebusch, Administrator of Hermann Area District Hospital, walks through the financial and cultural turnaround he led since becoming CEO in 2023 — from tackling a revenue cycle in crisis to rebuilding employee and community confidence. Hellebusch also reflects on stepping away from his role last year, and the community and staff support that brought him back. He shares how partnerships with regional systems hav
Bridging Academic Medicine and Rural Care (opens the original)
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Rural health care in Missouri is fragile, and Ric Ransom knows it firsthand. As CEO of MU Health Care, Ransom leads the University of Missouri's academic health system while navigating many of the same pressures — workforce shortages, reimbursement gaps, rising costs — that rural hospitals face at a different scale. He shares how his legal background shapes his approach to partnerships, why he describes the state of rural health care as "fragile," and how MU Health Care has responded when hospit
A Paramedic's Path to the Corner Office (opens the original)
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What does it take to turn around a rural hospital in under three months? In this episode, Steve Henson, CEO of Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital, shares the story behind his fast-moving restructuring plan and the unconventional career path — from ambulance driver to attorney to hospital executive — that prepared him for it. Henson discusses the realities of critical access hospital finances, the growing impact of Medicare Advantage on rural hospital margins, and why rural hospitals functio
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