Loretta Simms, LNHA
Administrator
Loretta started at Mulberry Lane as a nurse aide in high school and came back as administrator in 2014. Her door is open and her cell number is on the board by the front desk.
Our people
Meet our team
Our department heads average fourteen years here. Most of them were born at the hospital across town.
Our team
Who you'll meet
Karen Holt, RN
Director of Nursing
Karen has run our nursing department for twenty-two years and still works a floor shift when we're short. Families call her the person who always calls back.
Dr. Nathan Ostrander, DO
Medical Director
A Winfield family physician for nineteen years, Dr. Ostrander rounds here every week and oversees our clinical policies.
Diego Salinas, PT, DPT
Therapy Director
Diego leads a team of physical, occupational and speech therapists. He measures success the simple way: how many people walk out the front door.
Marisa Ortega, LMSW
Social Services Director
Marisa helps families with KanCare paperwork, advance directives and discharge plans, and she's the one who sits with you when the news is hard.
Tasha Greene
Activities Director
Tasha runs the calendar, the pitch tournament and the September festival radio party. She can get anyone to sing along to something.
Sample family reviews
From Cowley County families
Dr. Mercer delivered my mother in 1941. Eighty years later she lived out her days in the building he founded, cared for by people who knew our family. That means something in a town like ours.
Twenty-three days after my new knee I walked up my own porch steps. Diego had me practicing on a set of stairs exactly that height.
Karen called me at seven in the morning to tell me Dad had a fever and the doctor had already been in. I've never once had to chase anybody for information.
Marisa sat at our kitchen table and did the KanCare application with us, line by line. We'd have given up without her.
Mom has been here six years. Her aide on day shift has been here all six. When Mom forgets my name, she never forgets hers.
I was scared to go to a nursing home for rehab. It turned out to be the friendliest three weeks I had all year.
When my husband was dying they moved a recliner into his room so I could stay the night, and brought me breakfast in the morning.
Come sit on the porch. We'll answer everything.
Call or text Loretta, or just stop by. Somebody is always here to show you around.