Hospital Governance

[Don Coombs <dcoombs@uidaho.edu>]

Do most other people understand how the Moscow hospital is governed, or
are they like me? I have a favorable impression of the hospital, based on
service rendered to people I know, but I don't know how it is governed AND
I have great difficulty believing there is no way for Moscow and Pullman
to get together and operate just one hospital efficiently. To the naive
observer (me), it seems the hospital boards are taking turns saying no
joint effort is feasible, and just now it is the Moscow board's turn. Is
the word "compromise" not even in their vocabularies?

I suspect vision2020 participants can fill me in and, in the process,
inform at least a few other participants of the facts.

Don H. Coombs