Our lead chaplain for Eskenazi Health, uh Diane Shercliffe is going to uh lead us in an opening prayer.

Hi everybody.

Um, have any of you ever done one of those um well the one we went to was called Painting with a Twist, where you go in and they tell you how to make a painting.

I had not until Saturday night.

And my husband and I went with some some friends of ours, and we were making a we were making art, and there up on the screen there was a the ideal of what it was supposed to look like.

It does not.

Um separate canvases that came together to make one picture.

One side was blue and one side was orangey pink, and then there was a heart in the middle.

Nice thing for a couple to do, right?

Um now something to know is my husband cannot use his dominant hand right now, so I cleared this with him, and he knew he would be using his non-dominant hand.

We got the same exact instructions, the same amount of time, and laughed just as much and talked just as much.

But our paintings look very different.

Mine is smooth lines and small details.

His looks more kind of like a van goggle with the big brush strokes and the bold colors, and yet both of us are following the same directions, operating under the same parameters, and when we put that heart together, it lines up perfectly, and the painting still looks like one beautiful picture.

If you look at them separately, they look very, very different.

But I was thinking about that this morning, and I realized I think the reason I love that so much is because we do that every day.

But we bring our own talents, we bring our own perspectives, our backgrounds, our opinions, our viewpoints, and we do our jobs just a little bit different from everybody else that's doing them.

But the picture that comes out in the end is gorgeous, and I have to say, sometimes in a context that is not.

So I just want us to think about how as you sit around these tables today, you are bringing all of your different talents and your different perspectives and your different um viewpoints and responsibilities, even to work together and to come up with that beautiful picture without losing the individuality that's sitting here.

So if we could just take a minute to reflect on that just a moment of silence, that would be great.

So that we can work best together to make that beautiful picture.

Help us to listen to seek different viewpoints, and to make wise decisions, decisions that impact our patients, our community, and our staff.

Thank you, Diane.

All right, the uh uh the uh I'll do a uh call to order uh and uh uh vice chairperson drummer, uh trustee Du Set Present Um Trustee Dr.

Fish Trusty Hannafi, President, Trusty Horn, President, Trustee O'Brien, and Trusty Lazard is present.

All right, our our uh first item on uh the agenda item is uh after the roll call is the uh uh consent agenda which consists of the uh February uh uh 17 2026 uh board minutes, then memorandum of executive session from the the same date.

Uh the uh uh our our report from the CFO and interim treasurer of the February 2026 cash disbursements, clinical privilege forms, uh including uh emergency medicine, uh emergency medicine associate, emergency uh medicine, uh OBGYN, pediatrics, uh uh an associate physical medicine rehabilitation and and radiation oncology.

Uh also medical staff appointments, reappointments, changes to privileges, staff uh policies number 700-11, uh 700 117, uh 700 125, uh 700 126.

Is there a motion to approve the consented it's been moved?

Is there a second?

Sorry, moved by uh trustee uh vice chairperson drummer and seconded by uh trustee O'Brien.

Uh all in favor, I'll do a roll call vote.

Uh uh Vice Chairperson uh Drummer.

All right, uh Trustee Du Set.

Yes, Trustee Dr.

Fish.

Aye, Trustee Hannafi.

Yes, Trustee Horn, yes, trustee O'Brien, yes, and trustee Lazard vote.

Yes.

Uh motion passes 70.

Uh that uh brings us uh uh to our report uh section.

There are no other uh resolutions uh or other uh things to to vote on at the current meeting.

Uh and I'll turn it over to our uh CEO and uh uh president of the Health and Hospital Corporation, uh Paul Badcock.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair, uh members of the board.

Just have a few updates.

As you recall in our last uh February meeting, I indicated that the legislative session was nearing an end and that we would provide a update to you in March about some of the things that have impacted us.

So there's just three things I want to bring forward.

One, there's some changes to the 340B program that we're gonna work through together, Eskenazi and uh headquarters trying to see the impact on the budget, as well as some challenges with the state directed payment program and seeing where that ends up at the end of the year.

So we'll keep you updated on those.

And then third and finally, there was uh the syringe exchange program, which this board has to approve, and then this uh city county council has to approve, had some changes to it, and additionally um the surge of change program is up for renewal, and so we'll be bringing a resolution to the board uh in the next month or two and then taking it to the city county council uh for continued approval.

I think it's Dr.

King can attest, the program's been wildly successful.

So I just want to put that on your radar so you know that it's coming forward and happy to answer any questions about it.

Uh second, uh as we talked about last month, we're kicking off the strategic plan at a broader town hall implementation.

That was a very successful event.

I want to thank everyone who came and participated.

And additionally, let the board know that you'll be receiving uh today, actually in 22 minutes, um the copy of the video.

Um it'll be emailed to you so you can take a look at it.

And as always, if you have questions, please feel free to reach out.