New hospital is crucial to the local community

As most know, the Hospital District has placed a bond issue on the ballot for this fall. For voters to make a sound decision, they need a lot of information, much of which is apparently not as widely known as it should be. For the moment, though, let’s focus on the threshold issue: does this community need a hospital at all?

That might seem too obvious to need discussion, but claims that it does not have been heard in public, so let’s look. First off, the crucial aspect is neither hospital rooms nor a clinic: it is the Emergency Room.

The fact that really serious cases are shipped out, by ambu...