The Road Not Taken

[Mark Kindt]

Civic Leadership Abandons Healthcare and Healthcare Jobs

Demolishing Lakewood Hospital -- Our Civic Leadership Now Gambles On Retail Employment

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[Mark Kindt]

The Planners At Metro Understood The Impacts To Lakewood

This particular slide is almost oracular in its assessment of the future impacts.

The choice of our civic leadership was to abandon the revenues, abandon the jobs, demolish the hospital, and then give it away for $1.00. --A public policy failure of staggering proportions.

One that we now have to live with.

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Let's consider whether the current hole-in-the-ground will provide better care for victims of COVID-19 than a public hospital operated by the Metro Health System.

[Mark Kindt]

The Planners At Metro Understood The Impacts To Lakewood

This particular slide is almost oracular in its assessment of the future impacts.

The choice of our civic leadership was to abandon the revenues, abandon the jobs, demolish the hospital, and then give it away for $1.00. --A public policy failure of staggering proportions.

One that we now have to live with.

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Let's consider whether the current hole-in-the-ground will provide better care for victims of COVID-19 than a public hospital operated by the Metro Health System.