Meeker Memorial Hospital Foundation Golf Tournament
The 17th annual Meeker Memorial Hospital Foundation Golf Tournament is coming up on August 9th at 11 a.m. at the Litchfield Golf Club. The funds raised this year will be designated for a safe room in the hospital’s emergency room.
Meeker Memorial CEO Mary Ellen Wells people may register for the golf tournament on the hospital’s website which is meekermemorial.org. She says there is an area in the ER right now for some of their patients that is considered a safe room, but it needs updates.
Wells says they would also like to develop a triage room in the ER, and there are other building plans being considered at Meeker Memorial with more information being released later this year. She says they just inked a deal on Tuesday for St. Cloud Orthopedics to provide joint replacement surgeries at Meeker Memorial Hospital 4 days a week as Dr. Walker has gone back to Hutchinson.
Wells says Meeker Memorial is also excited to welcome a new family physician – Dr. Leif Olson – who will start in October. She says October will mark one year since she began at Meeker Memorial as interim CEO. She was named CEO earlier this year. Wells says she came out of retirement after 40 years in health care and says Litchfield is such a wonderful community and Meeker Memorial is a phenomenal hospital with so much potential.
