This is not the time to panic. I believe the process has been rushed. With two commissioners choosing not to run for re-election, thus avoiding accountability for this decision, something smells. I believe it should be put to the voters as a referendum, with plenty of OPEN information about the proposals and what it would mean to the county and the surrounding area.
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Michael Werner
6 years ago
This is wrong on so many levels. Please do not do this.
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Ron Shackelford
6 years ago
A vote of the people created our hospital. There should be public approval of its sale. Without public approval, the contract to transfer ownership should give the county and our citizens recourse should the move fail and cuts in staff or services result.
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Dennis W Davis
6 years ago
Don't try to fix something that's not broken
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Margaret McDuffie
6 years ago
Who will benefit from the sale? It is certainly not the citizens! Don’t forget what happened with Cafe Fear Hospital a few years back! I’m definitely opposed to the sale!
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Dick Powell
6 years ago
Keep UNC connection
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Bob Eakins
6 years ago
This has been a veiled process from the beginning with notices of public hearings being posted with short notices and being held at places with very limited parking. Not a transparent process by any means .
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Rosemary Toumey
6 years ago
We own it. We keep it. Amazing that one person can determine this outcome.
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Jim Snow
6 years ago
Do not sell the hospital!
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Wanda King
6 years ago
Please do not sell the hospital. It is something to be proud of not abandon. Money is not the only thing of value to the community.
"If it's not broke don't try to fix it "
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Toni Aberson
6 years ago
One reason I moved back in this area was how good the hospital had always been for me - simple, effective.
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Dennis Smith
6 years ago
Thank you John and Gene Merritt for putting forth the effort to halt the sale of the hospital. According to Lawton Robert Burns (Univ. of Pa.)"the wall separating a win and a loss is narrow for the sale of a hospital. There's often a thin line between the two".
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Lee King
6 years ago
I am against the sale of the hospital. There is uncertainty in healthcare right now but things are beginning to improve. Consolidation always means a reduction in option and generally lower quality service. Stop focusing on how the money from the sale might be spent and focus on what it would mean to lose our wonderful medical center.
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Elaine Syres
6 years ago
Why the rush? The hospital is in the black. There is no need to vote on the proposal Sept.3. Put it to a referendum.
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Gray Hawks
6 years ago
Don't sale.
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Jeff Mills
6 years ago
Please slow down!
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Sylvia Nucci
6 years ago
It belongs to the people of wilmington not the county comissioners
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Ann Stephani
6 years ago
Selling the hospital is unhealthy for the wellbeing of the community and runs contrary to its mission. Listen to your constituents!
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John Ford
6 years ago
No sale.
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Michele Zapple
6 years ago
Do not sell the hospital. If you do, you are going against the will of the people, and it's the people who will pay the price; monetarily, and in terms of a lesser quality of health care services.
This is not the time to panic. I believe the process has been rushed. With two commissioners choosing not to run for re-election, thus avoiding accountability for this decision, something smells. I believe it should be put to the voters as a referendum, with plenty of OPEN information about the proposals and what it would mean to the county and the surrounding area.
This is wrong on so many levels. Please do not do this.
A vote of the people created our hospital. There should be public approval of its sale. Without public approval, the contract to transfer ownership should give the county and our citizens recourse should the move fail and cuts in staff or services result.
Don't try to fix something that's not broken
Who will benefit from the sale? It is certainly not the citizens! Don’t forget what happened with Cafe Fear Hospital a few years back! I’m definitely opposed to the sale!
Keep UNC connection
This has been a veiled process from the beginning with notices of public hearings being posted with short notices and being held at places with very limited parking. Not a transparent process by any means .
We own it. We keep it. Amazing that one person can determine this outcome.
Do not sell the hospital!
Please do not sell the hospital. It is something to be proud of not abandon. Money is not the only thing of value to the community. "If it's not broke don't try to fix it "
One reason I moved back in this area was how good the hospital had always been for me - simple, effective.
Thank you John and Gene Merritt for putting forth the effort to halt the sale of the hospital. According to Lawton Robert Burns (Univ. of Pa.)"the wall separating a win and a loss is narrow for the sale of a hospital. There's often a thin line between the two".
I am against the sale of the hospital. There is uncertainty in healthcare right now but things are beginning to improve. Consolidation always means a reduction in option and generally lower quality service. Stop focusing on how the money from the sale might be spent and focus on what it would mean to lose our wonderful medical center.
Why the rush? The hospital is in the black. There is no need to vote on the proposal Sept.3. Put it to a referendum.
Don't sale.
Please slow down!
It belongs to the people of wilmington not the county comissioners
Selling the hospital is unhealthy for the wellbeing of the community and runs contrary to its mission. Listen to your constituents!
No sale.
Do not sell the hospital. If you do, you are going against the will of the people, and it's the people who will pay the price; monetarily, and in terms of a lesser quality of health care services.