06/05/2026
Thank you Carolyn Higgins Hice
Determination and drive aren’t equalizers.
They’re the dividing line between those who dream and those who do.
They transform obstacles into fuel, doubt into discipline, and impossible goals into accomplished realities.
Talent gets attention.
Determination and drive get results.
“Get comfortable being uncomfortable.”
For years, this project existed only as an idea.
An idea that many people couldn’t see.
An idea that some doubted.
An idea that required countless meetings, setbacks, delays, obstacles, and difficult decisions.
The truth is that building something meaningful is rarely comfortable.
Comfort is standing still.
Growth is uncomfortable.
Leadership is uncomfortable.
Creating change is uncomfortable.
This month, when construction begins on the Great Seal Medical Center, it will represent far more than a building. It will represent years of persistence, sacrifice, and a refusal to quit when quitting would have been easier.
But from the beginning, this project has never been about constructing another medical facility. It has been about creating a destination for healthcare where the guiding principle is simple:
PatientsFirst! Always!
Not budgets first.
Not convenience first.
Not profits first.
PatientsFirst!
That means making difficult decisions. It means investing in technologies, systems, and infrastructure that many would consider unnecessary expenses. It means being willing to deploy the most advanced tools available to improve patient safety, reduce complications, enhance outcomes, and elevate the patient experience.
Because when it comes to protecting patients, expenses be damned.
The mission has always been to build the safest, most technologically advanced healthcare campus possible for the people of Southern Ohio, so patients can receive world-class care close to home instead of leaving their community in search of it.
Every major accomplishment requires a willingness to endure uncertainty, criticism, and resistance while continuing to move forward.
For those who believed in this vision from the beginning—thank you.
For those who doubted it—thank you as well. Resistance has a way of strengthening conviction.
The sign will stand as a reminder that extraordinary goals demand extraordinary persistence.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Patients First. Results Matter.