With the fiscal year ending this past June 30th, CEO Chad Butterfield shares insight into everything he believes made the county’s largest employer a success. 

During the 2024 fiscal year, the medical center employed more than 200 people and had a positive economic impact of over 500 total jobs. The total wages for Greene County was close to $23 million and the medical center drove $57 million of expenses. Butterfield points out that because of increased property tax values, they can have a large tax base to draw from and so their overall tax levy rate is lower.

Outside of the figures, Butterfield says they listen and respond to the community needs. Following the Community Health Survey conducted by Greene County Public Health, the medical center hired two behavioral health counselors and therapists. They also started the Walk-In Clinic, adding more services to the Pain and Urology Clinics, along with enhancing equipment with help from Grow Greene County Gaming Corporation grants to provide better services. 

Butterfield shares other ways the medical center helps its teams, by adding tuition and recertification assistance programs and introducing “soft” benefits going up to 75 percent reimbursement for pool and Greene County Community Center memberships. 

Above all of that Butterfield says he is proud of their team and everyone who is associated with the medical center in one way or another. Following the past 18-24 months where difficult decisions were made by the Board of Trustees and several changes were incorporated internally, he is proud of every team member who embraced those changes and are heading in the direction towards their goals.