Listen now | Widespread departures across the county’s largest employer as financial warnings, staffing shortages, and service concerns continue to grow
No members of the William Shore Pool Board responded to yesterday's questions about the voucher program. Here is today's email sent to the Clallam County Commissioners:
Dear Commissioners,
Your mission statement speaks about serving residents, effective communication, and being responsive to the public. In 2024, the Board unanimously adopted a resolution urging voters to support Olympic Medical Center's levy lid lift. The League of Women Voters and other community leaders encouraged this stance and assured residents that higher property taxes were necessary to stabilize the hospital and protect local healthcare.
Two years later, property taxpayers have paid more, housing affordability has worsened, and newly released records show OMC lost more than 180 employees in less than a year while auditors warn of substantial doubt about the hospital's ability to continue operating.
When the levy was being promoted, commissioners publicly attached their names and credibility to the effort. Now that the situation appears to be deteriorating rather than improving, what specific public actions will the Board take? Will the commissioners provide residents with an accounting of what was promised, what was achieved, and what went wrong? More importantly, will the Board accept any responsibility for urging taxpayers to make this investment?
Residents were asked to trust their elected officials and pay more. What do they have to show for it today?
Good morning Patriots, Oh boy, where do I start? This has been happening long before 2024. I have personally known healthcare workers that have left there because of bad working conditions and morale issues. I am retired now, but I was in healthcare since 2011.
Under the current administration, I’m sorry to say this hospital is going to continue to implode. My own personal doctor left OMC and it took me a whole year to find him. Thank God I did because the practice that he was with never contacted me even though I contacted them for continued care. I was very lucky because I did not need his services at that time
But I have a rare condition that requires ongoing care. It’s a sad state of affairs because more and more people are going over to Jefferson healthcare which I am one of those people. I pray that they will get this figured out.
Another CC fix by more money means more money ill spent. How many times do we have to fail on this trap? Without fixes to the current problems the money is wasted. OMC has had leadership problems for some time and their fix was to hire a guy that closes hospitals for a living. We are continuing to be sold by the dems in charge that money solves the problems they created. It seems that again our county has failed us with some more smoke and mirrors. Where is monkey and the pig when we point out the failures of their leaders and have NO solutions?
I'd rather the BOCC abstain from taking positions on other taxing districts because otherwise it becomes what we're seeing and that's a non-thinking good 'ol boy system. These people run in the same circles meeting others connected in positions of authority and it becomes a clique. We get the same junior high, non-thinking, group responses influencing voters devoid of crucially understanding the situation.
The BOCC rubber-stamping of everything that comes their way is a cultural problem. Why not just decline and let the taxing district do their own work?
The LWVs...pfft, unimpressed, as usual. They walk around with an undeserved cache yet the county website still has them listed as a resource.
No members of the William Shore Pool Board responded to yesterday's questions about the voucher program. Here is today's email sent to the Clallam County Commissioners:
Dear Commissioners,
Your mission statement speaks about serving residents, effective communication, and being responsive to the public. In 2024, the Board unanimously adopted a resolution urging voters to support Olympic Medical Center's levy lid lift. The League of Women Voters and other community leaders encouraged this stance and assured residents that higher property taxes were necessary to stabilize the hospital and protect local healthcare.
Two years later, property taxpayers have paid more, housing affordability has worsened, and newly released records show OMC lost more than 180 employees in less than a year while auditors warn of substantial doubt about the hospital's ability to continue operating.
When the levy was being promoted, commissioners publicly attached their names and credibility to the effort. Now that the situation appears to be deteriorating rather than improving, what specific public actions will the Board take? Will the commissioners provide residents with an accounting of what was promised, what was achieved, and what went wrong? More importantly, will the Board accept any responsibility for urging taxpayers to make this investment?
Residents were asked to trust their elected officials and pay more. What do they have to show for it today?
More debt and no solutions! When they close OMC and they owe money are the taxpayers left to pay the shortfall? I hope not.
Good morning Patriots, Oh boy, where do I start? This has been happening long before 2024. I have personally known healthcare workers that have left there because of bad working conditions and morale issues. I am retired now, but I was in healthcare since 2011.
Under the current administration, I’m sorry to say this hospital is going to continue to implode. My own personal doctor left OMC and it took me a whole year to find him. Thank God I did because the practice that he was with never contacted me even though I contacted them for continued care. I was very lucky because I did not need his services at that time
But I have a rare condition that requires ongoing care. It’s a sad state of affairs because more and more people are going over to Jefferson healthcare which I am one of those people. I pray that they will get this figured out.
I wish everyone a beautiful day.
Another CC fix by more money means more money ill spent. How many times do we have to fail on this trap? Without fixes to the current problems the money is wasted. OMC has had leadership problems for some time and their fix was to hire a guy that closes hospitals for a living. We are continuing to be sold by the dems in charge that money solves the problems they created. It seems that again our county has failed us with some more smoke and mirrors. Where is monkey and the pig when we point out the failures of their leaders and have NO solutions?
I'd rather the BOCC abstain from taking positions on other taxing districts because otherwise it becomes what we're seeing and that's a non-thinking good 'ol boy system. These people run in the same circles meeting others connected in positions of authority and it becomes a clique. We get the same junior high, non-thinking, group responses influencing voters devoid of crucially understanding the situation.
The BOCC rubber-stamping of everything that comes their way is a cultural problem. Why not just decline and let the taxing district do their own work?
The LWVs...pfft, unimpressed, as usual. They walk around with an undeserved cache yet the county website still has them listed as a resource.
More bad culture.