Re: Fw: letter to editor

[WMSteed@aol.com]

Mrs. Melina,

I find it interesting that the Chair of the Gritman Hospital Board is married 
to an employee of the hospital who has a vested interest in not seeing two 
emergency rooms combined into one which would allow the reduction of several 
emergency room physician jobs which would no longer be needed to provide 
staffing at a single facility.

This is precisely why a combined facility is needed.  The duplication of 
physical plant, equipment and staffs at two hospitals, eight miles apart is 
costing the citizens of the Palouse more than is necessary; whether it is in 
medical insurance premiums or in co-pays or direct payments.

Listen to what your consultant and the insurance companies are saying.  A 
combined hospital is the most efficient and economically practical solution 
to this long standing duplication of costs and efforts.

Walter Steed