Everyone who lives on the Peninsula has learned to depend on Olympic Medical Center services for urgent care.
I have been in there many times myself.
You probably have also seen that there are some business weaknesses in the center’s operations.
It’s obvious that some changes in management were necessary, and were made by your current commissioners.
It has taken a number of years with new commissioners over the last three years to restart and refocus the commissioners and business management of Olympic Medical Center.
It’s important that this progress does not get cut short by people seeking a place on the commission without a deep knowledge of its problems and proper approaches to their solutions.
In the past 15 years, I have worked with two of these commissioners who are making the needed changes, Penney Sanders and Ann Marie Henninger. They understand rural hospital issues based on their professional degrees and experiences. They have shown many examples of the needed insight and tenacity to undertake and solve the issues our rural hospitals face.
They helped developed the hospital commissioner job description, revised the commissioner vacancy process and created the CEO succession plan, leading to a new CEO who is moving to put things back in order.
I would hate that either one of them would be replaced just when things are being turned to the better.
Richard Labrecque
Sequim