Hospital is necessary for Ritzville

There are many sides to the ongoing saga of the effort to decide whether or not to build a new hospital/clinic in Ritzville.

To me, the question is not if we need a NEW hospital – it is whether we need a hospital at all. Again – to me, it is an obvious YES, of course we need a hospital. No, we don’t need to try to build a Deaconess, or Sacred Heart, here in Ritzville, but we do need a facility with a few beds and a good emergency department, along with clinic rooms, radiology, physical therapy and laboratory, and of course office space for administration and accounting staff.

The bare truth is...