Fw: letter to editor

["Lois Melina" <lmelina@moscow.com>]

Some of you have said you could not read the attachment, so here is the text
of the letter to the editor that my husband asked me to post.


>December 19, 1999
>
>Dear Editor:
>
>We wish to express our opinion concerning health care on the Palouse. We
>feel that fiscal responsibility is one of the critical factors in
>maintaining excellent health care for our communities. We agree with the
>Gritman Board of Directors that it is fiscally irresponsible to construct a
>new consolidated hospital at this time. The long term survival of locally
>available hospital services may hinge on the debt incurred by our hospitals
>today. It is critical that our hospitals work together to become more
>efficient, but constructing a new facility is not the solution. We strongly
>support cooperation between our health care institutions to continue to
>provide sustainable excellent health care to our communities. As our
>cooperation matures and more definite estimates about savings incurred by
>this cooperation are developed, the idea of one hospital for the Palouse
may
>bear revisiting.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Randall Kloepfer, M.D.
>
>Debra McKinnon, D.O.
>
>Carl M. Melina, M.D.>
>Lon G. Miller, M.D.
>