>Valley Renewal transcrips 9/19/2011 Gwenn Hauck, 217 Fairmount Road, said
Gwenn Hauck, 217 Fairmount Road, said that the changes proposed by Valley Hospital are good ideas and will help to better serve patients while it remains healthy in today’s competitive hospital environment. She trusts all of the doctors and volunteers that she works with as well as the spokespeople for the hospital when they say that the hospital will have better services if it is allowed to expand as described. She pointed out that although the Village hires outside professionals to evaluate the hospital’s plans, Board Members and Councilmembers are not experts in the healthcare field and she trusts the hospital’s experts. The hospital has never given her any reason not to trust them and have been excellent neighbors. Ms. Hauck has volunteered in many capacities for the hospital over the years and she has never seen a hospital with so many volunteers. She described Valley Hospital as being a unique, state of the art, acute care, regional, Mom and Pop hospital that would never cause any harm to any of the school children who are their neighbors. She concluded that Audrey Meyers and other experts at the hospital claim that this expansion is overdue. She believes these improvements will be for the greater good of so many people in this town and beyond.
