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Hospital should become profitable before running bond

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 be...

 

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