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| MMHD Employees rolling into the year 2000 - Happy Y2K!
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A new millennium brought MMHD a new CEO. Jerry Fikes began his responsibilities at Mayers on July 1, 2000.
The next decade would prove to have ups and downs with finance, regulations, programs and staffing. The director of nursing, CFO and a local physician all moved or retired.
In the midst of it all, volunteers, fundraising and the quality of care flourished. In November of 2000 three employees were honored for over 30 years of service. Dorothy Johnson, Marie Beck and Lillian Rowland were all recognized at the hospital's "Academy Awards". Volunteer Connie Lazur was recognized for over 17,000 hours of volunteer service.
In 2001 MMHD was reclassified as a Critical Access Hospital (CAH). Critical access hospitals (CAH) are rural primary health care hospitals that gives limited outpatient and inpatient hospital services to people in rural areas. CAH's offer essential services to medicare patients and their services are reimbursed by medicare on a reasonable cost basis. It was established under the CAH program to improve rural health care access and to reduce hospital closures.
Mayers Memorial Hospital District successfully stepped into the new millennium.
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