The Becker's team is excited to announce the launch of our new CFO and Revenue Cycle podcast. Tune in for conversations with finance experts from the top hospitals and health systems. We'll discuss key trends and ideas to drive meaningful change in the industry. Look for Becker's CFO and Revenue Cycle podcast wherever you listen to episodes. This is Gracelyn Keller with the Becker's Healthcare podcast, and we're recording live at the CEO and CFO roundtable. I'm currently joined by Matthew Gibson, who is the president and CEO of Siskin Hospital for Physical Rehabilitation. Matthew, thank you for joining me today. And I would love to start our conversation by having you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit more about your role. Yeah. Happy to. Thank you for the opportunity. And, Matt Gibson, president and CEO of Siskin Hospital. We're an inpatient physical rehabilitation hospital based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We serve patients from, across our state, across our region, really, the Southeastern part of the, of the country, treat patients with different catastrophic, event, situations, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, stroke, amputees, major trauma, just a variety of different types of patients that we're, privileged to help get their lives back, basically. So Wonderful. Well, thank you for taking the time to join me. And Siskin Hospital's motto is caring people, changing lives. So what is the driving force behind that? Yeah. So, first, caring people. We we have exceptional people. We have a lot of long tenured folks that have been with us for over twenty years, even some over thirty years since we opened almost thirty five years ago. Not only are they extremely committed, but they take a very personalized approach to patient care and really connect with our patients. Our patients are with us on average a couple weeks, sometimes longer, so they really get to connect with our patients. They truly care about helping them get their lives back. Changing lives really to us means helping our patients get their lives back, whatever they love to do. If it's learning to walk again, talk again, so they can spend time with their grandkids, whether they're a triathlete and getting back to high level of competitive activity, whether it's golf, swimming, you know, everybody has their passion. And so it's just really about, you know, changing those lives is getting them back from their catastrophic event to, doing what they love again. So And speaking of changing lives, I'd love to hear a little bit more elaboration on elaboration on why you think it's important to focus not only patients' physical ailments, but also their mental and emotional well-being. Yeah. Thank you for asking that. We we really think it's important to focus on helping our patients be more fully human as they're going through this catastrophic, illness or event that took place. So we feel like if we can help them be more comfortable, reduce their stress levels, we have exceptional medical staff, but also psychologists that see a lot of our patients. If we can have them in a really comfortable setting in their rooms, we have extremely large rooms, we've renovated our entire hospital, give them great food and nutrition. We think all of this, you know, positions and get them out in nature for their therapy, positions them to be more pliable, be more compliant with what our occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech pathologists, medical staff are asking for them. Because on average, our patients have three hours of therapy a day. That's a lot if you've gone through a recent stroke or brain injury or spinal cord injury. So if we're being more attentive to them as a person, our hypothesis is they will be more malleable to listening to that instruction from these clinicians, and therefore, they'll get better sooner. They'll heal quicker. They'll go home sooner, which is the ultimate objective for all of our patients. So that that's why we think it's important to look at the entire, person, in each of our patients. Absolutely. And with this approach to whole person health, I'd love to know specific ways that Siskin Hospital has put this holistic approach to physical rehabilitation into practice. Yes. We I mean, for instance, we feel like, the medical care is exceptional that our patients receive. In addition and complimentary to that medical care, we feel like food can be medicine. Having nutritious options available every day via room service, via touch screen TV in each of their rooms, that they can, if they want to order a vegetarian option or vegan option or salad bar or fresh hummus that our folks make, we feel like that's, really important. Nature is medicine, we feel like. We have a large healing garden that we just opened a few months ago on our main hospital campus. It's outdoors. It's huge. Has all different types of surfaces, has hundreds of different types of flowers, beautiful sculptures, an iconic pavilion in the middle of it. Again, getting them out there in in nature, immersed in nature, we feel like can contribute to the healing process. We also feel like music can be part of medicine. We have a music therapy program that a lot of our patients benefit from and take advantage of. What we've done to bring art. We feel like art is medicine, bringing art into the patient rooms. Each of the head walls behind our our our patient rooms is a huge piece of art in every room. Then we have art throughout the hallways now. So we, again, feels like all we feel like all of this can contribute to the healing process and just the overall well-being of our patients. So And as we wrap our conversation today, I'd love to shift our focus toward the future. So as an organization, what is being planned for 2025, and how are these holistic initiatives going to grow? Yeah. So we're continuing. We're we're building working to to build more healing gardens across our campus. We have a vision to have five of these across our campus. The next one's gonna be a rooftop garden on a dormant rooftop space that connects to our inpatient therapy gym and, our outpatient therapy gym on our main campus. So that's really exciting to continue this this pursuit. We're going to be starting in early calendar twenty five, the renovation of our skilled nursing facility, Siskin West. Just again bring a lot of these attributes to that facility too. We're gonna be installing a large number of solar panels on multiple buildings across our campuses on flat roofs all over our campus. So being considerate of the environment and, energy conservation and or, you know, reducing our energy direct utilization. So those those are very exciting initiatives that we'll be kicking off in early twenty five. Wonderful. Well, Matt, thanks for joining me today on the Becker's healthcare podcast and sharing these insights. Again, we are recording live at the Becker's CEO and CFO roundtable. Thank you. My pleasure. Thank you very much.