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Personal commentary: Georgina Roy got it right! Guest commentary/Personal views: Editor of It's Just for a Smile News praises Westlake staff; says present and past management, huge out-of-line salaries responsible for present Westlake woes; lauds reporting of Sharon Burton and Community Voice - says honors due to this journalist. Thinks citizens deserve itemized accounting of all hospital expenditures. By Ralph Roy Waggener Editor/Publisher, It's Just for a Smile News The writings of Georgina Roy on Columbia Magazine got said what most of us feel about Westlake. We know that there is at Westlake Regional Hospital one of the most dedicated staffs of any hospital anywhere; the nursing staff is just excellent. We let this happen as a community by just turning our heads and not demanding better accounting. The Adair County people are the most giving people in our state; just maybe that's come to haunt us as we tend to taking care of tax based budgets. We don't want to offend anyone by asking them for a detailed budget. Business people know that we have to be accountable. The past five years has destroyed a lot of small businesses all over the USA; small firms seemed to be hurt more than large companies. The hospital could be saved by downsizing and cutting their budgets and learning how to work with GPs in our area. Westlake needs doctors and nurse practitioners in order to survive and it needs different management that can make this happen. Doctors have the right to and need to feel special because of their years of training and that takes a balancing act by administrators. The huge salaries paid by the former administrator - like most government bodies - just got way too far out of line with reality. Sharon Burton did an excellent story on where the hospital stands; The Community Voice newspaper and Sharon should be honored by all for this story. We need more writers doing what she has done on this Adair County problem. We are going to pay for these mistakes the hard way. If we have better accounting from all people who operate with our guarantee of payment we will have a much better chance of not having to bail out big mistakes. I have made a lot of these mistakes with my own company over the past 5 years and I understand how part of this happened. What I don't understand is $100,000.00 plus salaries for people to run taxing districts and to do it without any accountability. The total expenditures of all taxing districts and government bodies need to be accessible on our computers and I do mean total, all, everything! No not bundled together as salaries or expenditures or miscellaneous, but itemized. It's not a question of doing a good job or a bad job; it is a question of accounting to the taxpayer so we don't have another Westlake bailout! - Ralph Roy Waggener This story was posted on 2012-07-28 12:54:51
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