Dismantling PMC is Premature
The dismantling of the Palomar Medical Center (PMC) in Escondido as an acute care hospital and Trauma Center is much more important to The Palomar Pomerado Health (PPH) district than the site selection for the new hospital. PPH cannot find an acceptable location for its new hospital. But PPH is certain that it must dismantle PMC as an acute care hospital and a Trauma Center! Why?
Because with minor modifications, PMC can serve as an acute care hospital and Trauma Center for many decades. PPH must dismantle PMC before the community realizes that the buildings currently housing the most important areas of the hospital (Emergency Room, Labor and Delivery, Critical Care Unit) were constructed less than twenty years ago! In Proposition BB, PPH tricked the community into believing that the buildings at PMC were over 50 years old.
PPH will probably build its new hospital in San Marcos. PPH cannot build its new hospital in the ERTC because of environmental constraints imposed by the 500 MW power plant currently being built there. A remote possibility exists that PPH may build its new hospital on the Spruce site proposed by the City of Escondido. However, PPH has vigorously and forcefully expressed an extreme dislike for the Spruce site.
If PPH decides to build the new hospital in San Marcos, the residents Escondido and Valley Center will demand that PMC remain open rather than accept the fate of being without the services of a nearby acute care hospital for the first time in over 80 years. The residents of Escondido and Valley Center will demand that PMC remain open, which will impact the market for PPH's new "resort-like" hospital in San Marcos.
PPH is hoping for immediate approval of plans to dismantle PMC as an acute care hospital. As with Proposition BB, PPH must have their plans in place before the residents of Escondido and Valley Center understand its consequences. Thus, quick approval of the plan to dismantle PMC is much more important to PPH than the selection of an acceptable site for the new hospital.
PPH will host a public workshop on July 28 at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido for presenting its plan for dismantling PMC and preventing its use as an acute care hospital. Hospital officials said they could ask the City of Escondido for the necessary zoning changes to implement their plan to dismantle PMC as early as next month. See report in the North County Times:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/20/
news/inland/20_27_417_19_05.txt
The PPH workshop is a marketing trick. Until PPH commits itself to an acceptable site for the new hospital, any plans to dismantle PMC as an acute care hospital and Trauma Center are premature.
Because with minor modifications, PMC can serve as an acute care hospital and Trauma Center for many decades. PPH must dismantle PMC before the community realizes that the buildings currently housing the most important areas of the hospital (Emergency Room, Labor and Delivery, Critical Care Unit) were constructed less than twenty years ago! In Proposition BB, PPH tricked the community into believing that the buildings at PMC were over 50 years old.
PPH will probably build its new hospital in San Marcos. PPH cannot build its new hospital in the ERTC because of environmental constraints imposed by the 500 MW power plant currently being built there. A remote possibility exists that PPH may build its new hospital on the Spruce site proposed by the City of Escondido. However, PPH has vigorously and forcefully expressed an extreme dislike for the Spruce site.
If PPH decides to build the new hospital in San Marcos, the residents Escondido and Valley Center will demand that PMC remain open rather than accept the fate of being without the services of a nearby acute care hospital for the first time in over 80 years. The residents of Escondido and Valley Center will demand that PMC remain open, which will impact the market for PPH's new "resort-like" hospital in San Marcos.
PPH is hoping for immediate approval of plans to dismantle PMC as an acute care hospital. As with Proposition BB, PPH must have their plans in place before the residents of Escondido and Valley Center understand its consequences. Thus, quick approval of the plan to dismantle PMC is much more important to PPH than the selection of an acceptable site for the new hospital.
PPH will host a public workshop on July 28 at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido for presenting its plan for dismantling PMC and preventing its use as an acute care hospital. Hospital officials said they could ask the City of Escondido for the necessary zoning changes to implement their plan to dismantle PMC as early as next month. See report in the North County Times:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/20/
news/inland/20_27_417_19_05.txt
The PPH workshop is a marketing trick. Until PPH commits itself to an acceptable site for the new hospital, any plans to dismantle PMC as an acute care hospital and Trauma Center are premature.
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