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Isaac Heller

Hospital President/Administrator (Chief Administrative Officer) of Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb Hospital in Smithville and Stones River Hospital in Woodbury, Tennessee.

Oct 8, 2026

4:43
So tell us what fantastic things are going on at the hospital.
4:47
Yeah, well, that's a good segue.
4:49
I haven't had a chance to work with Dr. Cripps for very long, but I know just the nicest guy was really great about kind of telling me the history of the cab and medicine here and everything whenever I first arrived a little over a year ago and will definitely be missed.
5:09
I know he's the, you know, so many people talk about how the care he provides and how good he is and how he...
5:17
He could tell folks things that were wrong with them that nobody else could figure out.
5:22
He's a genius.
5:24
Absolute genius is what I hear.
8:46
I'm like, I can't follow that.
42:56
get referred and then they can help get the appointment and all that through insurance.
43:00
And it's being socialized to the primary care providers as well as an opportunity for their patients to, like Dr. Ellis said, not take a day off work.
43:10
thing I want to mention in addition to that is you know this is a program that actually you know Dr. Ellis was a big fan of and brought up to us in the very beginning so you know this this kind of process has you know a high quality surgeon backing it and so we're excited about that but that's that was really the reason we came on is to talk about that but just to add you know a few other things you know, we're putting about a million dollars into the facility infrastructure, pipe relining and things like that, and updating our HVAC system.
43:47
Some of those
43:48
are not very fancy, shiny things, but
43:51
super important.
43:51
Exactly, exactly.
43:53
I always love to talk about those things that we're doing.

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