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Re: The Road Not Taken
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:16 am
by Mark Kindt
Civic Leadership Abandons Healthcare and Healthcare Jobs
Demolishing Lakewood Hospital -- Our Civic Leadership Now Gambles On Retail Employment

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Re: The Road Not Taken
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:29 am
by Mark Kindt
Mark Kindt wrote: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.
Lakewood Metro Presentation 9.17.14_Redacted 10.jpg
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.
Re: The Road Not Taken
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:48 am
by Mark Kindt
Mark Kindt wrote:Mark Kindt wrote: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.