[Vision2020] need for dialysis center (was which way toegress...)

[lfalen]

It looks to me like Gritman is the best way to go and we should vote yes on February 6. I would still like a zone chane so that it zoned for public use only.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Jerry Weitz gweitz at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:55:26 -0800
To: "Bruce and Jean Livingston" jeanlivingston at turbonet.com, "Pat Kraut" pkraut at moscow.com,  "vision2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] need for dialysis center (was which way toegress...)

> Bruce,
> Consuelo and I are supporting Gritman's bid to acquire LHS.  The dialysis 
> unit will not be sited at LHS. For us, Gritman is an outstanding rural 
> hospital and a community asset.  Gritman serves our rural communities with 
> health clinics.  Gritman is progressive and forward thinking.  For example, 
> Gritman brought to our community a same day surgery center, a state of the 
> art rehabilitation physical therapy facility, and presently is 
> contemplating a dialysis unit and a wellness center.  Gritman will aid in 
> securing long term care for our area which presently stretched.  Gritman's 
> enhancements directely aid recruitment and retention of faculty and 
> students at the University of Idaho.  I have been active in recruiting long 
> term care providers to the area.  Two have looked closely at the LHS, 
> talked with Gritman folks, and our Commissioners visited their Spokane 
> sites.  One would require 20-40 acres and the other about 10 acres.  Both 
> concluded that the present site is not worth bothering with and too cost 
> inefficient to renovate.  The industry has to have the ability to change to 
> market expectations.  A major reason LHS failed.  In doing research, they 
> have discovered that Moscow's Good Sam had to spent 20% more for their 
> additions because of Major Chaney's unbundling the development process.  It 
> could very well be that they will look at Pullman would be my guess.  Jerry
> 
> 
> At 09:39 PM 1/16/07, Bruce and Jean Livingston wrote:
> >Pat,
> >
> >How valuable would it be, in terms of a community health care issue, to 
> >have a dialysis center in Latah County?  I understand there isn't one here 
> >at the current time.  Is that an important thing to have, or is it good 
> >enough to have one in Spokane and Lewiston?
> >
> >In talking with Gritman representatives BJ Swanson and Jeff Martin, I 
> >asked them about possible uses for LHS (if it were transferred to Gritman 
> >and a nursing home operator did not come forward to run a nursing home 
> >there as a sub-lessee of Gritman).  They responded that one of the things 
> >that they were seriously contemplating as a use for some of the space was 
> >a dialysis center.  Just how significant an addition to our community 
> >would that be?
> >
> >Bruce Livingston
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:pkraut at moscow.com>Pat Kraut
> >To: <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>vision2020
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:21 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: "Which Way To The Egress?" Barak Obama
> >
> >I have said this before but you may be new enough that you didn't see it 
> >and it is too important for you to not know.
> >I have two sons with failed kidneys. We have done the transplant dialysis 
> >since 1985 it is expensive, painful and more of a heartache than you want 
> >to think about. For someone to give their organs they must let their 
> >family know they really want to give it isn't enough to put it on your 
> >drivers license. AND that is because of tort claims in this country. The 
> >hospitals are afraid they will be sued and Edwards is an attorney who has 
> >done just that. He got a big award for something that is very 
> >questionable. Waiting for a transplant is horrible. It is watching your 
> >child, parent, loved one of any relation slowly sinking and in pain. Organ 
> >doation is the greatest gift any one can give. BUT, less and less people 
> >do it because of fear. And for me that is Edwards legacy.
> >
> >
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