Hospital should become profitable before running bond

 

Last updated 7/18/2013 at Noon



There is a question I’d like to have answered.

How come there is no surgical unit in the plans for the new hospital?

It seems to me that minor surgery would be a good thing to help make a hospital profitable. Why is it necessary to ship everyone to Spokane who needs minor surgery? If we had a general surgeon, and a minor surgery unit in a new hospital, it might be easier to maintain a profit.

I see in the newspaper article that the hospital has become more profitable, but still is not in the black. By reading the article they have not become more profitable by having more patients, but have become more profitable by cutting back on things that they actually need.

If you want my vote, show me that you can have a profitable hospital for at least one year that stays in the black by not cutting back on necessities, but by actually having more patients.

If you could do that, I would be more than happy to step on the bandwagon and help you get a new hospital. But you’re going to have to stay in the black for at least one year before I would feel comfortable adding another $200-300 to my property taxes.

I don’t want you back in three or four years saying we need more money because we don’t have enough to run the hospital.

That’s part of the problem that you have now.

I don’t think I’m the only person who feels this way. And putting a big burden on law the taxpayers that are senior citizens until the people that are on low income that can afford to have their property taxes raised.

So show us that you can stay in the black for a year and then come back again in a year and ask for a new hospital but remember you have to be in the black for a year before you do that.

Roger Gallagher, Ritzville

 

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