Aug 29, 2022

Sen. Marshall receives an update on Geary Community Hospital

Posted Aug 29, 2022 9:55 AM
Sen. Roger Marshall seated at the end of the table with Junction City, Geary County, Geary Community Hospital and Stormont Vail Health officials on either side.
Sen. Roger Marshall seated at the end of the table with Junction City, Geary County, Geary Community Hospital and Stormont Vail Health officials on either side.

U.S. Senator Roger Marshall attended a briefing last week with Stormont Vail Health and Geary Community Hospital officials on the plans where GCH will eventually come under the auspices of Stormont Vail on Jan.1.

Marshall called working with Stormont Vail a great opportunity. "And I think encouraging Stormont Vail to bring their surgeons here, to make sure that their radiology team, that oncology services are offered here to turn the bottom line around for this hospital is the long term goal."

Marshall was encouraged by the fact that Stormont Vail surgeons are already doing surgery at GCH. "So many places want to what we would call swoop and scoop. They want to come into a community and scoop away all the profitable part of healthcare but frankly, outpatient surgery is a profit center and so the best news I've heard today ( Thursday ) is that Stormont Vail surgeons are already doing cases here."