[Vision2020] need for dialysis center (was which way to egress...)

[Bruce and Jean Livingston]

Pat,

How valuable would it be, in terms of a community health care issue, to have a dialysis center in Latah County?  I understand there isn't one here at the current time.  Is that an important thing to have, or is it good enough to have one in Spokane and Lewiston?

In talking with Gritman representatives BJ Swanson and Jeff Martin, I asked them about possible uses for LHS (if it were transferred to Gritman and a nursing home operator did not come forward to run a nursing home there as a sub-lessee of Gritman).  They responded that one of the things that they were seriously contemplating as a use for some of the space was a dialysis center.  Just how significant an addition to our community would that be? 

Bruce Livingston
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pat Kraut 
  To: vision2020 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] [Bulk] Re: "Which Way To The Egress?" Barak Obama


  I have said this before but you may be new enough that you didn't see it and it is too important for you to not know. 
  I have two sons with failed kidneys. We have done the transplant dialysis since 1985 it is expensive, painful and more of a heartache than you want to think about. For someone to give their organs they must let their family know they really want to give it isn't enough to put it on your drivers license. AND that is because of tort claims in this country. The hospitals are afraid they will be sued and Edwards is an attorney who has done just that. He got a big award for something that is very questionable. Waiting for a transplant is horrible. It is watching your child, parent, loved one of any relation slowly sinking and in pain. Organ doation is the greatest gift any one can give. BUT, less and less people do it because of fear. And for me that is Edwards legacy. 
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