By all means, please keep the hospital open. I was on the hospital board for 8 years. We had some hard years and we were there late many nights. We always managed to work it out and have the money to run on. It takes a lot of effort from everyone involved. Bickering and fighting between management, employees, board, etc., will not get the hospital back in operation. Everyone will have to work together.

I use our hospital for everything I can have done there. When I had a heart attack I was taken to our ER, stabilized, treated with knowledge and speed and was on a helicopter to Louisville within an hour. I would not want to ever think this hospital would be closed! My husband's life, in my opinion, was saved a few times by the quick, accurate work of the hospital nurses and doctors. Let's all support our local hospital! --Brenda McCoy Harvey