Family...

While there are challenges to being a small, rural hospital, there are many advantages as well. One main advantage is that we are small enough to be a large family.

When my family has reunions, they can rival the size of the MPMC organization in numbers (which is why I married an out-of-state girl!).

As with any family, we have good times and struggles, but work together to resolve our issues and grow stronger in the process. At MPMC, we are striving to become a close, resilient family working toward a common goal.

One way we can learn and evolve together is through our newly implemented Service Excellence Initiative. The teams that have been put together to implement this three-year program will lead the way for our family to continue to advance the level of patient care and the bonds between us.

These bonds are forged through challenging times. Last week, the MPMC experienced one of these struggles. Below is the release sent to Sky Hi News after a request for information about the incident:

On January 2, 2014, three employees of Middle Park Medical Center Granby Family Practice Clinic reported feeling ill and left work.

All three employees report ingesting the same food product, though it is unclear at this time if the food was tainted in any way.

Middle Park Medical Center administration, along with staff and outside agencies, is investigating the incident and awaiting lab results on the food substance present in the clinic to determine if the food was, in fact, tainted.

The employees have reported feeling better after the incident and have resumed serving patients at the clinic. There was little to no effect on patient appointment times or the quality of their care.

There is no further information available at this time.

This is the extent of the verifiable information currently available about the incident. The MPMC leadership team and local authorities will continue to investigate this occurrence. We stand by our employees – our family members – 100% and will protect them.

Please stayed tuned for any additional details as they become available. In the meantime, please refer any inquiries to CNO Carmen Covington or Michelle Balleck, Director of Marketing and Public Relations. We ask that any communication you have about this incident is with Carmen and is not conducted outside of MPMC.