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Notes from Our Leaders

Enjoy these weekly insights from Steve Simonin, President & CEO.

Notes from Steve (Posted September 14, 2026)

I was talking to my friend yesterday.  She said she needed to be "coached" through a midlife crisis.  She was feeling anxious about change and wanted to move (from one big city to another) for various reasons. Still, mostly, she wanted a new outlook.  I told her that my coach said you can't...
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Notes from Steve (Posted September 7, 2026)

Jordan Weber and I were talking about overhead music.  As I tell everyone at orientation - the reason behind the music is all about paying attention to it as opposed to the conversations in the hallways.  Diversion strategy.  The music is always a bone of contention though - people are never satisfied with...
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Notes from Steve (Posted August 10, 2026)

My post-RAGBRAI week is usually fairly “exercise” quiet, but I needed to get back on the proverbial horse.  This last Saturday, I thought I’d take a nice leisurely bike ride down to Carlisle, Iowa, from downtown Des Moines.  Maybe 24 miles round-trip.  Nice scenery, pretty day … by Easter Lake … nice.  I get...
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Notes from Steve (Posted July 27, 2026)

So today is the Monday after RAGBRAI.*  The weather was perfect, and the amount of fun and camaraderie was beyond compare.  A good time was had by all. 2026 marks 10 years of Iowa Specialty Hospitals & Clinics doing RAGBRAI.  (I know that is actually 11 years, but for obvious reasons, 2020 was...
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Notes from Steve (Posted July 20, 2026)

One of my biggest internal “Iowa” battles is nice vs assertively kind.  I use the word battle because I’m constantly going over conversations in my head as to whether or not someone took something the wrong way.  If I filled the 90% of my headspace I reserve for “worry about how others...
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Notes from Steve (Posted July 13, 2026)

I asked the sisters if they had Mom's recipe for potato salad.  I remembered it included Dorothy Lynch dressing.  "No"… ok, fine.  I'm going to try and replicate her recipe from memory (from 40 years ago, wish me luck).  Her salad was not like potato salad anywhere else, but I know what she liked...
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