Jason Harrington, CEO and President of Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake, spoke to the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary club at noon on Wednesday, September 30.
 
Jason has been CEO since July of this year. He shared with Rotarians that his main goal is to make a good hospital even better.  Lakes Regional Healthcare recently celebrated 50 years. LRHC delivers approximately 200 babies, has 6,000 emergency room visits and over 5,000 patient stays are tallied annually. Some other topics he discussed with the groups included Medicare reimbursement, healthcare reform and the aging baby boomers. Another statistic that he shared was that 9% of Iowans are uninsured. Jason concluded by answering questions from Rotarians.