Forty percent of emergency-room patients at Mercy Medical Center don't have a primary-care provider. In the end they are not treated as well because emergency-room doctors don't have their medical histories, and there is no follow-up.
Our health-care needs get worse. This is a local effort to take care of local problems.
We fully expect to take advantage of the Health Service District.
We need to fill gaps - large gaps in health services. Demographics are such in La Plata County that we can't apply for federal grants for a community health center. We have too much income.
