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Box 25 eAGE/602
MYRTLE WESTMORELAND, STATESVILLE, NC
Mr. Commissioners and ladies and gentlemen:
I'm Myrtle Westmoreland, a director at Iredell Memorial
and have been for the past approximately ten years. When
I agreed to serve in this capacity, I gave it a lot of
consideration. I did not accept lightly. I accepted
realizing that I had a great charge to keep to the people of
Iredell County.
As a director, I can assure you that the other directors,
the trustees of Iredell Memorial, and we have worked very
closely with the administration and the volunteers, the
directors and trustees at Lowrance during the past few
months as we head into this issue. And so speaking as a
director and as a volunteer who has spent many hours during
the past several years in the interest of health care of
our community, I can assure you that we do not take this
responsibility lightly.
I feel that we have a charge to those pioneers of all
the hospitals in this county who have given us the health
care that we have today. I would like to say on the onset
that I am not against anything or anybody, but I am strongly
for the institution that I represent.
I am for us keeping pace in the health care here in the
coming years ahead. I feel that many people have sacrificed