 With around 1,500 employees, Ascension Health is the largest employer in Crow and County. Today, leaders from that organization held a community leadership breakfast to talk about the past year and what the future holds for Ascension Health. Our Sarah Winkleman has the details. As Ascension looked back over the last year, nearly 100 community leaders were in attendance to hear the results. Ascension Health leaders shared about key topics, one of which was their success with the company's financial strength. We're a non-profit organization and obviously we have to have some capital in order to reinvest in our community. Like their new designated stroke center that Ascension is proud to have. People want to get health care close to home. We also know that the faster you can get this type of intervention, the better outcome that you have. But the year did not come without some controversy with their decision to make flu shots mandatory for all employees and fired those who did not comply. We're going to learn from how and what we did. We have what are called after-action reviews that we're going to be looking at across all of our organization. That plays a large role in the community by being the largest employer in Crow and County with nearly 1,500 employees. Obviously having a lot of staff that live and work in the community brings a lot of economic value to not only Brainerd but all of Crow and County. Which will remain important as they keep an eye on the physician work shortage. Partnering with the community colleges and school systems to really kind of attract people into health care careers. With a health care system aimed at making the community a healthy place. It's just so exciting it's invigorating to hear all of the news that Accenture is doing. It's community-oriented and it's just great to be part of it great for it to be in the city of Brainerd. With continuing growth as Accenture leaders also announced the Baxter Clinic expansion should be complete sometime around May. We have such an engaging community that everybody comes out and supports and is interested in what's going on with their local health care so that shows a lot of community pride and engagement. Reporting in Brainerd, Sarah Winkleman, Lakeland News. Accenture Health was also part of over 120 community events in the past year. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.