An alternative future for Lakewood Hospital

[Bill Call]

The Cleveland Clinic has made it quite clear that they have no intention of allowing the Hospital to compete with Clinic owned properties. The price of that policy is the underutilization of Lakewood Hospital and the loss of medical jobs and medical service in Lakewood.

Why should Lakewood residents have to drive to Avon for medical treatment?

Perhaps it’s time to cut the cord and let the Clinic go. Perhaps it's time for Lakewood Hospital to declare its independence.

There are still doctors out there who want to practice medicine; there are specialist who want to keep their independence and medical professionals who are eager to achieve independence.

http://www.surgerycenterok.com/
http://samaritanministries.org/surgery- ... t-pricing/

Fixed prices?
Listed prices?
Free market health care?

It works in Canada:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_3_c ... hcare.html

The seed money could come from the $1 billion in damages the Clinic has done to Lakewood by its willful and systematic dismantling of Lakewood Hospital.

[Jim O'Bryan]

The seed money could come from the $1 billion in damages the Clinic has done to Lakewood by its willful and systematic dismantling of Lakewood Hospital.

Bill

According to you, it is the negligence of the landlord that allowed this to happen.

But you do raise an interesting question.

IF we were to lose the hospital, could it even be saved?

The city has no funds for Basketball Courts or keeping parks open. They are now asking us
to park on other streets so that we can handle recycling at the same efficiency level as
now, as pointed out by Matthew Lee, to save $40,000.

Where would the city find any funds to even keep the services here in any scope?

When does our community investment in "Downtown Renaissance" pay its dividend?

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[Matthew Lee]

This raises another good point. I saw that Lakewood wants to spend $400,000 on Madison Park.

Not that I oppose spending money on parks, but where is THAT money coming from?

[Jim O'Bryan]

This raises another good point. I saw that Lakewood wants to spend $400,000 on Madison Park.

Not that I oppose spending money on parks, but where is THAT money coming from?

Matthew

And how can they spend that kind of money on a park they closed early because they was
not enough funding to keep the parks open past "dusk" even though they are lit and used
way past "dusk?"

Where does that money come from, yet others are told, we are broke. We need to save
$40,000.

Something is not adding up, again.

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