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and 32 with a toilet like this one. None of them have
closets and only nine bathing facilities serve all 64
rooms.
Respiratory therapy is in a tiny area, and medical
records are very hard to get to in this crowded room.
Basic hospital services, which must be fast and efficient,
like purchasing and the pharmacy, are woefully inadequate
for a hospital this size.
Nurses stations, waiting rooms, patient admitting
cubicles are all too small. Radiology is too small.
And preoperative medication must be administered in patient
rooms because there is no surgical holding room at Lowrance
Hospital.
Despite all these hospital problems, both hospitals
are doing an excellent job. People are pleased with us
and our staff. We are doing an excellent job, meeting
all of the standards for hospital accreditation. It is
not a question of anyone receiving anything but the
best of care at either hospital. It is the question of
whether these hospitals will even be around in the future.
They simply cannot economically survive with their present
facilities. Regulatory organizations won't let us add
beds, so we have to make our present services as efficient
as possible. There is almost no limit of patients we can