Today’s Greeter: Ken Moulton read a nice poem about daffodils proclaiming the death of winter, and welcomed Spring for the club.
Attendance:
Bow Rotarians: 29
Visiting Rotarians: 0
Guests: Chuck Rheinhart introduced Cindy a prospective new member
Guest speaker: 1
A Total of 30 earning a daffo-dilly dilly.
Announcements:
- President Bryant Stevener made the following announcements:
- Ballot for District Officers was reviewed and voted on by the club - motion passed.
- District Assembly Saturday Hartford High School April 6th.
- District Conference May 3-5 in Danvers MA.
- Gerry Carrier flogged the car show and talked about sponsorships.
- Donna Deos reviewed the 4 way speech contest happening Thursday at 7:00 at the Baker Free Library.
Sergeant at Arms: Ben Kiniry
Fines:
- Ben woke the club up with a rousing exercise routine. Asked for voluntary fines for talking during speakers.
- Logos: Michelle Oliver - MCSB
- Pins, badges and other discretions: none.
- Birthdays - Chuck Rheinhart- still talking to wife after a big move making it a great year.
Happy Bucks:
- Donna Deos happy $20 for getting engaged after 20 years.
- Matt Dodge for a successful ski season, overall winner of New England Master’s level.
- Matt Gatzke for LRI fun and success.
- Alan Kanegsberg- Sad buck for leaving town after 50 years to go south to Deadham MA. Wants to remain a member of Bow for as long as possible and get 48 years of perfect attendance.
- Dick Swett has child number 6, Atticus, getting married this summer in Bow.
- Harry Judd promoted Flags Across Bow for the Bow Men’s Club.
- Dave Scanlon had his son and his son’s girlfriend featured in the LL Bean catalog.
- Mike Fortier had a great Florida vacation with family.
- Peter Imse thank you for help at town meeting and trip to Cincinnati to visit family.
Raffle Winner: After numerous attempts, the raffle was cancelled due to technical difficulties.
Program:
Bob Steigmeyer, President and CEO of Concord Hospital and a Bow resident, has been in the community for five years. He wants to see improvement in his organization and work. Concord Hospital is a charitable, non-profit health care system with over 26 sites. There is an obligation to address the health care needs of the community. Charitable achievements are a big part of the mission. American health care as a system is ranked fairly low, yet, we have some of the best systems in the world. Fifty four per cent of the time people get what they need. Thirty five to forty percent of the industry is useless or damaging to patients. This waste is an issue, and a call to action. It is a time of change in the industry. We need more access and service at a lower cost. Concord Hospital has developed a strategy for waste elimination and increasing caring. Streamlining information technology was a first task. System interoperability for data was needed, so the hospital system replaced the complete data system with an eye on using data to improve care, changing the paradigm from individual care providers to teams. The system is now doing population level analysis of how to care for disease becoming the health and not the sick system. Consolidation is not the answer, but is the present environment. A new building is being constructed to co-locate providers for more convenience of care.
Bryant Stevener closed the meeting with a toast to Rotary.
Respectfully Submitted,
Dean S. T. Cascadden