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FranklinCovey provides customized solutions for Healthcare Organizations to solve key issues: nurse retention and Patient satisfaction. It's a proven partnership model helping hospital leaders build teams that deliver extraordinary patient outcomes. SALT LAKE CITY-(BUSINESS WIRE)-#CNO - FranklinCovey (NYSE: FC), a global leadership and organizational performance partner, is providing customized solutions for healthcare organizations to address the most pressing challenges they face today, including nurse retention and patient satisfaction. FranklinCovey is partnering with hospital leaders to help them build teams that deliver extraordinary patient outcomes. And the documented results are exceptional. Today's hospital leaders face unprecedented disruption. Rising costs, workforce shortages, advancing AI, regulatory shifts, employee burnout, cybersecurity threats, and supply chain disruptions are converging simultaneously - all while leaders are expected to accomplish more with fewer resource without compromising patient care. Paul Walker, FranklinCovey CEO, said, "The key for senior hospital leaders is to focus on what really matters - great patient outcomes, which are driven by high employee engagement and consistent execution. By building agility and trust, embracing emerging technologies, and creating a cadence of consistent execution, these leaders can help their teams effectively navigate change, reduce burnout and disengagement, and improve patient satisfaction." "The demands on CNOs and nurse leaders today are extraordinary," said Holly Procter, FranklinCovey Enterprise President and former CRO of Incredible Health. "They're asked to transform care delivery, retain talent, and improve outcomes all at once, often with fewer resources. But when they foster trust and collaboration and manage change effectively, their teams push through uncertainty and find new ways to grow, care, and achieve greatness. We're honored to partner with them and bring decades of healthcare experience to help them achieve outcomes that matter most." FranklinCovey's Partnership with Healthcare Organizations Yields Exceptional Outcomes FranklinCovey has partnered with numerous healthcare organizations to achieve measurable, documented results, including Baptist Health, Sanford Health, Ballard Health, Kaiser Permanente, Advent Health and Hoag Hospital. (See healthcare case studies.) * Improved in-patient satisfaction from 26th to 76th percentile within four months (Not-for-profit healthcare network) * 50% reduction in leadership turnover (Advent Health) * 50% increase in employee engagement and 37% increase in team trust (500+ bed hospital system) * 52% reduction in perioperative incidents (Metropolitan area hospital) * Moved Press Ganey scores (among all hospitals) from 14th to 95th percentile in one quarter (100+ bed medical center) Procter said, "FranklinCovey continues to deepen its impact in healthcare by helping hospital systems solve their most pressing challenges, and documenting the outcomes that prove it's working." FranklinCovey Will Offer Complimentary Webcasts and Events for Senior Hospital Leaders to Help Them Build Cultures of Trust, Drive Workforce Engagement, and Create Consistent Patient Experiences The webcasts and events for senior hospital leaders will be held in April and May in major US cities. They will feature New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust and Trust & Inspire, who has partnered with over 100 healthcare organizations worldwide to achieve strategic objectives. Other presenters will include senior healthcare professionals and consultants. Attendees will learn the principles and practices that build cultures of trust, drive workforce engagement, and create consistent patient experiences. The High Trust Hospital: How Great Leadership Drives Workforce Engagement and Patient Experience * Date: April 7, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET * Key Takeaways: Learn how to close the trust-driven leadership performance gap - transforming communication, culture, and team engagement to improve retention, reduce costs, elevate patient experience, and deliver measurable workforce results. * Presenters: * Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author * Candice Saunders, FACHE, former President and CEO of Wellstar Health System, who joined Wellstar in March 2007 as president of Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center. She was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of Wellstar Health System in May 2013 and was appointed president and CEO in July 2015. She retired in 2025. * Registration: https://www.franklincovey.com/events/webcast-series/the-high-trust-hospital/ Excellence as the Standard: Creating a Consistent Hospital Experience * Date: April 23, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm ET * Key Takeaways: Attendees will learn how to transform patient experience from an aspiration into a predictable, scalable outcome. They will also learn how to create the organizational focus, clarity, and measurable momentum required to drive top-tier patient loyalty and clinical excellence. * Presenters: * Doug Puzey, FranklinCovey Regional Practice Leader, instrumental in developing the 4 Disciplines of Execution, he helps hospital systems achieve their desired outcomes. * Sherry Nolfe, Chief Nursing Officer, DNP, RN, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital. Nolfe has served Loma Linda University Health since 2005 and oversees all clinical operations for Loma Linda University Children's Health. * Registration: https://www.franklincovey.com/events/webcast-series/excellence-as-the-standard/ LIVE EVENTS The High Trust Hospital: How Great Leadership Drives Workforce Engagement and Patient Experience * Cities and Dates (events run from 8:30 am - 10:30 am): * Atlanta: April 21 * Los Angeles: April 23 * Houston: April 28 * Dallas: April 29 * Chicago: May 5 * Key Takeaways: Learn how to close the trust-driven leadership performance gap - transforming communication, culture, and team engagement to improve retention, reduce costs, elevate patient experience, and deliver measurable workforce results. * Presenters: * All Cities: Stephen M. R. Covey, New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author * Los Angeles: Dr. Anthony Hilliard, CEO, MD FACC of Loma Linda University Health Hospitals, who leads a six-hospital system. He will share the principles they utilized to move their hospital from the 40th to the 85th percentile in patient experience and sustained it. * Houston: Rafia Saqib, MSBE, MBA, LSSGB, a director and leader from MD Anderson, who will share how their organization uses trust-centered leadership and predictable execution to strengthen culture and elevate results. Steve Sosland, former COO of a rural Texas hospital and former Vice Chancellor for Leader and Culture Development at Texas Tech University System, will share how he led his organization to receive the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award by building a culture rooted in trust, accountability and shared purpose. * Dallas: Dr. Brennan Lewis, DNP, APRN, PCNS-DC, NEA-BC, Senior Vice President of Nursing Excellence, Innovation, and Patient Experience at Children's Health. With more than 23 years of progressive nursing and leadership experience, she will share how Children's Health has applied leadership principles to strengthen culture and accelerate results. * Registration: Seating is limited. To request an invitation to these exclusive live events for senior hospital leaders, email [email protected]. About FranklinCovey FranklinCovey (NYSE: FC), a global leadership and organizational performance partner, gives strategy the human edge. HealthTech HotSpot LLC help clients achieve breakthrough results and transform how they execute strategy at scale. Its Enterprise and Education Divisions develop high-performing leaders at all levels of the organization and align people around purpose and priorities. Through proven, principle-centered frameworks and practices, HealthTech HotSpot LLC build high-trust leaders, teams, and cultures and help organizations translate strategy into consistent execution. Its approach enables lasting, repeatable results by helping clients identify, align, and execute their most important priorities. This approach has been tested and refined through more than 40 years of work with tens of thousands of leaders and organizations - from Fortune 100 and 500 companies to small and mid-sized businesses, as well as educational institutions and government entities. HealthTech HotSpot LLC provide professional services in over 160 countries and territories through directly owned operations and licensee partners, serving both enterprise and education clients. Its solutions are delivered through the FranklinCovey All Access Pass(R) and Leader in Me(R) subscriptions which combine world-class content and tools with the trusted expertise of consultants, coaches, and facilitators and are available in multiple modalities and in more than 20 languages. 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Deals tracker: Aveanna Healthcare to acquire Family First healthcare. Aveanna Healthcare to acquire Family First Homecare. Home care platform Aveanna Healthcare Holdings has entered into an agreement to acquire Family First Holdings, a pediatric home care provider. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Atlanta-based Aveanna plans to fund the deal through a combination of cash on hand and existing short-term credit facility borrowing, according to a March 12 news release. The deal is slated to close in the second quarter, pending regulatory approval. Tampa, Florida-based Family First Holdings, doing business as Family First Homecare, operates 27 sites across Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas and North Carolina. The deal is expected to grow Aveanna's presence in these states, the release said. Baptist Health to acquire South Arkansas Regional Hospital. Baptist Health has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire South Arkansas Regional Hospital in El Dorado, the system said March 11. The deal is slated to close June 14, pending regulatory approval. Financial details were not disclosed. The 151-bed, rural community hospital will be rebranded as Baptist Health Medical Center - El Dorado upon closure of the transaction. Little Rock, Arkansas-based Baptist Health is made up of 12 hospitals, more than 75 primary and specialty care clinics, multiple urgent care centers, a senior living community and multiple clinician education institutions. Elsevier agrees to acquire Mytonomy. Medical research platform Elsevier has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mytonomy, a patient education and engagement technology company. The deal is pending regulatory approval, a spokesperson for Elsevier said March 10. Terms of the agreement and financial details are confidential, the spokesperson said. The company also declined to specify a timeline of when it expected the deal to close. The acquisition would allow Elsevier to expand its patient engagement and education offerings, according to the spokesperson. Montrose Regional Health and Community Hospital plan to partner. Montrose Regional Health and Community Hospital signed a letter of intent March 9 to form a strategic partnership. Under the partnership, the system and hospital would collaborate on multiple nonclinical initiatives such as information technology alignment, group purchasing, long-term planning and revenue cycle optimization, according to a news release. The agreement does not include any investments or purchases, a spokesperson for Montrose Regional Health said March 10. The two Colorado-based organizations plan to reach a definitive agreement this fall and to finalize details of the partnership by the end of the year. Grand Junction-based Community Hospital is a 60-bed facility and part of Colorado West Healthcare System, also based in Grand Junction. Montrose Regional comprises a 75-bed hospital, an ambulatory care center and several outreach clinics. MUSC Health acquires South Carolina physician group for $111M. Medical University of South Carolina Health has acquired Palmetto Primary Care Physicians for $111 million, the health system said March 3. Under the agreement, Palmetto Primary will become a nonprofit organization within Charleston-based MUSC Health. Palmetto Primary includes 31 physicians, 95 advanced practitioners and 40 medical practices. MUSC Health said the deal will help improve its primary care capacity. Quantum Health acquires CirrusMD. Care navigation company Quantum Health has acquired virtual care provider CirrusMD. Financial details were not disclosed. CirrusMD's clinical team will provide virtual care for Quantum Health users, according to a March 3 news release. Quantum Health and CirrusMD did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Quantum Health has been looking to increase its offerings through mergers over the past year. In June 2025, it acquired healthcare tech company Embold Health.

2025 STORIES OF THE YEAR: calamity, growth rules news in Hardin County. Marred by a messy corporate breakup, deadly and damaging floods, the nation's longest federal shutdown, a social media post that garnered national attention for the wrong reasons, a regional murder case won by a local prosecution team, and local gravesites being vandalized, calamity ruled The News-Enterprise's Top Stories of 2025. It was paired with the county's continued growth with stories about the regional airport expansion, the addition of an ambulance in White Mills, and Baptist Health Hardin's addition of a second emergency room for the county in Radcliff. To compile the list, The News-Enterprise newsroom staff nominated about 45 stories for voting then staff voted on its Top 10 stories of the year. All ties are honored. In September, the Hardin County Sheriff's Office and Radcliff police reported a string of vandalism sweeping area cemeteries. The graves violated included those of a child in North Hardin Memorial Cemetery and another grave belonged to Brianna and Bryce Taylor, siblings killed two weeks apart in separate incidents that captured the hearts of the community. The accused vandals, four in all, were arrested and later indicted on two counts of conspiracy to violate graves; two counts of conspiracy to theft by unlawful taking, worth more than $1,000 but less than $10,000 and criminal syndication. Their felony criminal case is ongoing. In an effort to ease the burden of the third busiest emergency room in the state, Baptist Health Hardin purchased property and announced plans for a $13 million emergency room, urgent care facility. The hybrid operation under construction sits on 2.7 acres along North Dixie Boulevard at 2763 Centennial Ave. in front of Appliance Parts of Radcliff and Southland Bingo Hall, and is nearly 24,000 square feet. After proposing an ambulance in Hardin County's western most town, the road to getting an ambulance wasn't necessarily smooth for Hardin County Government and its top executive, Hardin Judge-Executive Keith Taul. After the merger of two volunteer fire departments - White Mills and West 84 - into West Hardin Fire Department at White Mills and a $25,000 investment by that department and White Mills residents to renovate the facility to accommodate an full-time ambulance crew, Taul faced concerns from residents, especially from Radcliff, after it was proposed an ambulance crew would be pulled from the station there. Residents from White Mills also wanted to see what they perceived as a promise upheld. In the end, Taul said the county would come up with the estimated $400,000 annual cost to add the full-time service. In what is being called a "50-year plan," the city of Elizabethtown announced in October its plan to purchase 220 acres off Hayden School Road to expand the Elizabethtown Regional Airport - Addington Field's runway from 6,000 to 7,800 feet, if the project is approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. The land purchase follows the construction of three capital projects at the airport. The projects include a six-bay T-hangar, a privately funded corporate hangar and a $2 million renovation of the airport's terminal paid for with a state grant. In a case that captured the attention of the state and nation, Brooks Houck was sentenced in September to life in prison for the murder of Crystal Rogers of Bardstown, his then-girlfriend and mother of five, after nearly a decade of investigations by state and federal agencies. The team who were able to bring Houck and his accomplices, Steven and Joseph Lawson, to justice were from the Hardin County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office, led by Hardin County Commonwealth's Attorney Shane Young, who was the special prosecutor assigned to the case. Without much physical evidence, including not having a murder weapon or Rogers' body, Young's team was able to secure the conviction in one of the most high-profile cases in Kentucky history. The Hardin County Republican Party found itself embroiled in controversy when its party chairwoman, Bobbie Coleman, shared a video to the party's Facebook page depicting former President Barrack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as primates. The former president's head appears to be superimposed on a chimpanzee's body and the former first lady's head on a gorilla's body. The video, which received national attention and to which Coleman admitted sharing, received admonishment from Kentucky Republican Party Chairman Robert J. Benvenuti III and an investigation by the state party was promised. Before any public announcement of action taken by the state party, Coleman announced her resignation effective Dec. 29, when the local party's executive committee unanimously elected her husband, Kim Coleman, as its new party chair. 4. Community leaders step up when federal shutdown affects local programs, families. The longest federal shutdown in the nation's history - lasting 43 days from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12 - affected many families in Hardin County who either worked for U.S. Army or federal agencies at Fort Knox or who received SNAP benefits, which were also paused during the shutdown. Local Head Start programs operated by Central Kentucky Community Action also faced closure as its already approved federal appropriations were not going to be paid out Nov. 1 during the shutdown. The agency decided on a loan to keep the doors open until federal funding was able to be released. Local small businesses, especially those close to Fort Knox, reported at least a 20% dip in sales during the period as the shutdown was affecting Fort Knox's $100 million in annual payroll and local nonprofits reported being overwhelmed by the demand created by the shutdown. Other utility infrastructure projects waiting on federal dollars also were paused. After approving what was expected to be at least a $30 million outdoor concert venue, the city of Elizabethtown and Elizabethtown Tourism began work in February for the approximately 10,000 seat facility. After bids came in, construction costs estimates grew to $42 million. The venue is expected to attract higher-level talent than what is available for The State Theater and nearby outdoor venues, which seat a few thousand less, and will be managed by a third party. Concerts are expected to begin in the fall of 2026. 2. The year of floods. Three different rain events - in February, April and June - brought high waters to Hardin County including three deaths of Hardin Countians in flash flooding in February. Elizabethtown resident Thomas Oakes, 63, died Feb. 15 when his vehicle ran off Gilead Church Road in Glendale and Oakes exited his vehicle in the high waters. Oakes' body was found a short distance from his vehicle. Amy, 35, and daughter Charlotte Mae Philpott, 7, died Feb. 15 when the vehicle Amy was driving with both in it was swept off the road by flash floods in Hart County. The floods in February and another round in April closed several roads across the county and saw the city of West Point and the community of Colesburg needing emergency efforts to include shelters and water rescues as residents had to evacuate homes. Parts of Sonora remained underwater weeks after the April rains, leaving several roads impassable in that part of the county. The storms brought millions of dollars of property damage and a response from FEMA. Like all messy divorces, the breakup of Ford Motor Co. and South Korean manufacturer SK On in its joint venture, BlueOval SK, has brought significant collateral damage to the area in its wake. With the split, some 1,500 workers employed at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale were laid off and their jobs officially will be terminated Feb. 14. The announcement came through media reports Dec. 11, where SK On announced the withdrawal from the joint venture with Ford to make electric vehicle batteries. The company built twin two-mile long, 4-million-square foot manufacturing plants on a 1,551-acre site in Glendale and another battery plant and assembly plant in called BlueOval City in Tennessee. In the breakup, it was later revealed Ford will retain ownership of the facilities in Glendale, and plans to invest another $2 billion to retool the facility and hire 2,100 workers for a battery storage operation, which has yet to be named and is expected to begin operations possibly in 2027. The state is renegotiating its incentives package with Ford, officials said.