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Guest Editorial: Hunger and Food Insecurity – America’s Invisible Epidemic
By Lindsay Rasmussen Over 50 million Americans were living in food insecure households in 2011 (Hunger and Poverty, 2011). Included in this statistic were 16.7 million children and 1 million…
Passing hospital levy a must
Editor Save Valley General Hospital. This is the theme of the hospital levy campaign. Living for 42 years in Monroe, I’ve seen the growth of the hospital and how it’s…
Community needs to step up, save hospital
Since the 1890s, our community has been given medical care in Monroe at the site of what is now known as Valley General Hospital, situated right next to Highway 2.…
Levy or latte; what’s more important?
To the Editor: Nancy and I are writing in support of the Valley General Hospital Levy. We have lived in Monroe for over 30 years and in that time we…
Guest Editorial: Community Hospitals Keep Healthcare Local
By Eric Jensen I am writing not only as the CEO of Valley General Hospital, but as someone who has spent a majority of my work life as a rural…
Minutes matter
Editor, Minutes matter. It made the difference between the continued use of my son’s arm or not after his snowboarding accident. Without Valley General Hospital’s emergency department my son would have…
VGH: A community resource that saves lives
Ms. Keary, if you find your investigation into the U.S. health care system difficult to make sense of, as you note in your recent editorial, you are clearly doing something…
Full-service hospitals save lives
Please vote YES on the levy for Valley General Hospital. We need a local full-service hospital where people can get emergency services, deliver babies, and have surgical procedures and other treatments. Please, don’t…
Chip in and vote for vital VGH services
Editor, Re: Valley General Hospital. Thanks to our Valley General CEO for not “partnering” with Providence of Everett and allowing them to close our hospital (and of course, funneling our 3,600 yearly inpatient stays…
Editor’s Notebook: Convenience or continuity?
By Polly Keary, Editor I’ve had Valley General Hospital and Providence on my mind for a long time these last months. I’ve never felt like I really knew why the…
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