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CHS won’t be missed

I worked at Deaconess Hospital for 38 years and lost my employment along with many other long-term employees under CHS. When CHS took over Deaconess and Valley hospitals, almost overnight the medical community was turned against one another.

The SEIU union worked to line its own pockets only to abandon employees with contract violations because of the cost of dealing with CHS. Doctors were forced to sign contracts to keep their privileges at facilities where they had worked their entire careers, even going as far as choosing the staff they would work with in their offices. Along with how Rockwood, started by a group of doctors from Providence, ended up under control of CHS. CHS policies did nothing to retain doctors and surgeons.

Pray you don’t need to find a primary physician in Spokane, because you won’t. With any luck, there’s hope that physicians will return to Spokane area and the medical community can work together again.

Colleen Dugger

Spokane

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