CCF ER Dr. Welch Too Busy To Answer Questions, but CCF Spends Lakewood Money on Pandora Pitch for ER

[Brian Essi]

So I've seen many, many "promotions" for the Lakewood ER currently housed in the build empty building on Belle and Detroit, but those on Pandora take the cake.

Pandora advertising? ReallyToby--is that how you're spending our charitable money Summers & Co gave you?

CCF used Lakewood CCF ER Dr. Welch at a City Council Meeting last Monday to pitch its ER in the empty building. Dr. Welch would not directly answer Dan O'Malley's question as to how many doctors are at the ER at a give time. She went from Lakewood to China and back again to sort of say that there were about six doctors working there over time----but it seems those six also rotate through CCF's other hospitals like Lutheran and Fairview. The young and energetic Dr. Welch was just too busy to answer questions from Lakewood residents at City Council. It seems she prefers controlled settings in old folks homes where she can sweet talk the CCF talking points.

Dr. Kilroy spoke at City Council after Dr. Welch and he said that she was too busy to talk to Kilroy about even patients.

So if Dr. Welch is too busy to answer questions and won't say who is minding the store, is that really reassuring the public?

Is the Pandora advertising part of the bogus "$78M Wind down expenses" that Summers lied about last December and nobody at City Hall can explain?

[Dan Alaimo]

There's a pretty slick CCF ad for the Lakewood emergency facility playing all over the internet before various video clips including YouTube, but many other places too.

[Lori Allen _]

Just a friendly suggestion:

For those of you, like myself, who don't like the seemingly corrupt hospital deal and also feel that the new urgent-care is not adequate enough to service Lakewood, should be picketing the several CCF medical buildings in Lakewood as time allows as well as the urgent-care. I know there is the one medical building across from Value World, and another by Harding. It doesn't matter if it's one person or five, five minutes or fifty. Just keep it fresh in people's minds.

[Kevin D Young]

They are running ads on Pandora, on You Tube, all over the internet and Dr. Judy Welsh runs from pointed questions concerning the so called "Emergency Department's" alarming, life threatening shortcomings. These are all signs of weakness, It is a desperate attempt by The Clinic's PR firm to hide the truth from the public. The "Emergency Department" in Lakewood does not replace our full service hospital. Worse yet, it will not replace the lives that will be lost as a result of The Clinic's sick and perverted false advertising campaign. We've come to expect this kind of behavior from used car dealers and politicians. Now we see it from what was once our community's most trusted entity, The Cleveland Clinic.

Speaking of politicians...this did not have to happen. Mayor Summers and council could hold The Clinic accountable, but they don't. Why? Because as we see in government in Washington and in Columbus, our city officials are serving dark and greedy monied interests, rather then the interest of the citizens they pretend to represent.

Vote against the deal in November. Repeal the deal that closed our hospital. Lakewood wants REAL DOCTORS, NOT SPIN DOCTORS.