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I am very much saddened and a bit upset concerning the closing of Inland Hospital (previously known as Waterville Osteopathic Hospital).
I honed my management skills as a clinical laboratory scientist (CLS) taking the position of director of the clinical laboratory there in early ‘90s. I met some of the most professional, dedicated, intelligent, hard-working employees there — secretaries, physicians, housekeepers, RNs, maintenance, pharmacists, etc. Some are my friends to this day. The whole hospital was filled with people who cared about their jobs but especially cared about patients.
In 2014, after finding out I was not the retirement type, I returned to work at Inland in the clinical laboratory in a per diem position. The place had drastically changed but the people had not. They still really cared about their work and patients.
Now, both employees and patients are now left with trying to figure out what to do now having lost their place of work, lost their healthcare providers.
Who is managing Northern Light Healthcare? Please consider what you have done to this hospital and the local community.
One of the principal values of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is “the needs of the patient come first.” Why can’t Northern Light think the same way?
Marilyn Kenyon
Albion
