Well, right about now I bet we wish Salem Health had not been so prompt to demolish General Hospital.
A mothballed hospital building, even obsolete in some ways, would be handy at this moment. It's a stark reminder that resilience often entails redundancy and is antithetical to efficiency.
100 years ago, campaigns to build a new Deaconess Hospital on Winter Street and a new General Hospital on Center Street ran into some difficulty.
The lack of interest among the most wealthy in Salem made people more sympathetic to radicalism.
Disappointment, however, is frequently expressed at hospital headquarters because the seemingly studied indifference with the the solicitors are treated by several of the most wealthy residents.
Apparently the ratio of hospital beds to population was a new metric, and the morning paper sought to publicize it.
It seems impossible that out of this pandemic crisis we will not undertake a more thorough reconsideration of the way we fund, deliver, and allocate health care.
Parenthetically, it is interesting to see former Governor Kitzhaber more visible. It was right for him to resign and for Governor Brown to succeed him, but he has a very particular skillset that could be useful at this moment, and the Governor should find a way to put him to use. He could be a great Coronavirus Czar type administrator.
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