Mr.

Bailey.

Present.

Mr.

McDowell.

Mr.

Johnson.

Here.

Thank

you.

I'll tell you.

It's doing a lot of jobs.

We

gotta really quick think

about rethink this.

You know, her being a long-tenured uh director of engineering.

It's been a

long team here.

I

won't talk about Robert Lair.

Um, I do want to take a uh point of personal privilege real quick.

And uh I want to recognize a young lady by the name of Jordan Whiteside, who's uh a junior in high school uh here in Columbia.

Uh she uh has a program and uh she has to uh uh satisfy a uh requirement to do a senior thesis.

Her senior thesis is on health.

Uh and so she talked about in her senior thesis the disparities that we see here in Columbia.

Uh and uh she was willing to risk her grade uh and interview me.

Uh and so uh I want to recognize her for just putting together a very thoughtful senior thesis and uh talking about health.

And so uh I just wanted to recognize her uh uh here as we get started.

Um I would like to can we two more minutes without counseling down?

Absolutely.

So

move.

All right.

Make a motion, I'll second it.

Uh, and I guess it's just two approval.

Uh and uh with that, uh we have uh the Prisma team here.

Uh we have Miss Uh Lisa McFarland.

Uh Lisa, you want to get it started?

I'm gonna start.

Uh we have uh as I refer to uh

it's nice I get a promotion every time I every time I I see him.

First of all, very happy to be here.

Um I'm moved by the fact that we've had conversations just about this community and the health status, not only of our state, but we recognize the significance of opportunities right here in the heart of Columbia and where we live and to have conversations and think about how we can uh positively impact that change.

Um it matters a great deal.

And to be to move from that conversation to be here today with this room of people here means so much to us.

I think I want to start by saying at Prisma, we we recognize, and I don't have to share with you all the impact that I think that we have in this community.

We're sitting a commercial for Prisma Health, but we recognize that in order to continue the improvement we need to see and address certain issues, we can't do it by ourselves.

And so partnerships only with organizations like OnMed, but with you all here at the city are so key because if we could do it alone, it'd be done.

Right?

And so there's uh you'll have a number of data and points in front of you that speaks to the health status of the community.

The opportunities, we I'm not gonna go through that today because I really want to get to the part that's more solution-oriented.

Um before I move forward, though, I do want to take the opportunity to recognize Stacy McPhail, who's on our team, who may be able to add some commentary.

She's executive director of accountable communities, Angel Bordone, who I am honored that we were able to recruit her.

And I say this uh you know, we're we're able to recruit her back.

Uh she worked with us a number of years ago, and she left, you know, for the other side of whatever, but she's back with us, and we're certainly benefiting from from that perspective.

Um, but again, they're very real issues with not just um, you know, we talk about access and making sure that patients have the ability to receive care in a manner that I think they should have options, okay.

We study for years in terms of what needs to happen in communities, um, how care should be delivered.

That doesn't fit everyone.

And having access or having uh doesn't necessarily isn't necessarily the answer because there are times we've taken our mobile units into various communities that we're you know we're gonna be referencing today, and no one shows up.

And so I think we look for those opportunities for uh a little diversity in terms of what the offerings are, which is why Lisa is here with us today.