Jonathan Lawrence Quotations

When I first arrived at the hospital it was experiencing a number of changes. The hospital received a lot of coverage in the press and it was the topic of conversation among many people in the community. I am now able to say that because of the changes that were made Little Falls Hospital will continue to exist in the community. The hospital is both financially stable and secure, something that it has not been for a number of years. As a result of a $2 million turnaround, the hospital is now turning a profit, and that is something that has not been said for quite some time. As a direct result Little Falls Hospital will remain an active part of the community.

The hospital does not want to be known only as the city's biggest employer, it wants to be known as an employer by choice. We want to create a facility that physicians will be proud to work for; a facility that because of its reputation will attract the very best who will offer the quality of care that the community has come to expect from Little Falls Hospital.

We will continue to change as health care is an ever-changing industry.

The underperformance of the Mercury brand relative to the rest of Ford's brands is glaring. If you look at the Ford brands, every one has a distinctive identity. All of the Mercury models are basically twins of other Ford vehicles. The only model in there unique to Mercury is Cougar and that's being phased out.

The medium-heavy truck market can be lucrative when the business is booming, but we are currently heading into a downturn.

I'm not surprised the stock is down. We all expected that. There are some people out there who expected to get more Hughes shares than they were able to get, and are trying to lighten their position with GM.

I think if they do a deal for Hughes, the stock will go up. The implied value is there somewhere. But Hughes is a one-time issue. There's fundamental things wrong with the core automotive business.

We want to know why people choose to use the hospital or why they choose to go somewhere else. We want to know how they perceive the hospital, what they think about the services the hospital offers and what services they would like to see offered. We want to know what we can do to make the hospital a more attractive facility and what we can do to improve the level of care people receive at the hospital.

There are many people who have added to the success of the organization.