Editor,

This is another opinion on the leadership of what at one time was a well-known medical treatment facility, Whidbey General Hospital.

All people living in this area are well aware of Whidbey General, where it is and what it does. Even a stranger passing through that has a need for medical services can find it.

Now that same person traveling through, has a medical problem that needs attention cannot find a hospital.

There is a sign leading to WhidbeyHealth, but he needs a doctor not a spa. Rechecks his map. There’s no hospital on Whidbey Island. Turn around and go to Mt. Vernon, 35 miles away. They can help.

There is a big influx of Navy personnel headed this way.

At one time or another some of them will get sick. Where do they go for treatment?

There were at one time road signs directing people to a hospital. Not anymore. There is a spa down the road where a hospital was once located.

In a sales pitch the Whidbey General boss is quoted as saying WhidbeyHealth tells who/what we are. Sorry it doesn’t tell me anything.

Whidbey General tells me where to go for my medical needs.

Think of the cost to change road signs, stationary, business cards, emails, travel guides and many other things that has Whidbey General listed as a medical treatment to WhidbeyHealth just to increase the ego of the boss.

I can just see the Army changing the name of Madigan Army Medical Center to MadiganHealth. But I guess the Army already has its ego standards filled.

Robert Brown

Oak Harbor