I write to ask a very important question: While our county continues to approve house after house, why is there no planning being done to seek the building of a third hospital? The current situation is a result of allowing overbuild without any consideration for our critical shortage of beds even before COVID happened. It’s time to think about this need.
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Letter: County needs another hospital
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