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| Posted By: Anna Heather Posted On: Oct 8, 2019 Views: 20 | Nice one That's a good ideas but there are so many things to consider. It's out of my knowledge. You may not notice but you can see all your photos on Instagram without smartphone on imgrum as long as your account is not private. You can even download the photos to your computer. |
| Posted By: not what I was told Posted On: Sep 5, 2008 Views: 515 | :( I know this is probably petty, but I was told the Patterson land was not entirely free. I understand that someone (either the hospital or the city) paid the bill at the manor for the Patterson's until they passed in return for the land. Does anyone know how the current hospital got so ran down? Was it poor management or lack of funds? Will the new hospital suffer the same fate? Why does AC not take care of it's heritage and buildings? i.e. Curry Field, school buildings, hospitals, downtown windows I just went to my second ever football game at Curry Field, and it was great. I think the downtown atmosphere this time of year feels charming and nostalgic. It feels like home! I'm going to hate to see it all leave. :( |
| Posted By: Save the City! Posted On: Sep 5, 2008 Views: 520 | It's not just about the hospital The city is broke. The city is broken. The reason I say this is just by looking around. This city that was once great, once shined a city that needed no introduction no "theme" has been lost. Herds of people by the thousands used to gather to visit just to walk the streets. People brought businesses, knowledge and with that trust. Buildings were new, smiles and waves...good times. Yet in recent years things have been taken advantaged of by the patrons by the years...a sad harsh realization that time comes for everything. Now the city is left to the trashy, disrespectful and lazy patrons. Wiether the blame be brought by the casinos, we grown tolerant of their nusisances or the ever popular cities abound. Our city lights are dimming. As facts look around the big high paying jobs left, our beloved movies gone, our pet shelters moved astray, the cops even turned to normal casual intimidation and now the leaders are not asking for a new hosptial there questioning us where to put it. As if they didn't already know. I not would believe the old saying true, like most small towns once the railroad leaves and the byway is complete the heart of the town dies. And I am not ashamed to see the city boarded up and over looked just sad. Really sad. Like Coney Island I never wanted to see close but I wish to see the city closed then to see it filled with drugs, criminal activity, over ruled by gangs and littered with filth. Arguments shouldn't be made about the future of a hospital it should be made about the town crawling away and starting again. When leaders should stay and question what future? |
| Posted By: Dawn Posted On: Sep 5, 2008 Views: 593 | Come and Look! Before I came to work at SCKRMC, I worked for another KS hospital in a small but progressive town. The hospital was gorgeous! It was so well maintained and cleaned that I was always so proud to bring family and friends in for a tour. I certainly don't have the same feeling about this hospital and have to admit I've been a little ashamed when my family has come to visit and wanted to see where I work. Patients were kept comfortable and could even use handicapped accessible bathrooms in every department. Not a luxury patients enjoy here in AC. This current hospital is in terrible shape! I know because I spend the majority of my waking hours here and have first-hand experience in areas that patients don't normally get to see. Please don't think that this place can be salvaged. The infrastructure is falling in around us....a certain safety issue for everyone. So now how are we to recruit new doctors? How are we to grow new services? What draw is there for people to want to come here to work or for care? When I signed on here, I was told we were in the middle of building a new hospital....that was not quite the truth....but like alot of us...I fell for it...and now I have to wonder what my job security is if the city votes down a new hospital and this place has to close it's doors. Do I want to commute to Winfield, Ponca City or Wichita to work? I'm sure my family would move, as will lots of other families...and AC will soon feel like a ghost town. INSTEAD, let's look to the future and build a new hospital, hire new doctors and staff, increase our healthcare capabilities so we don't have to make trips for specialty care to Wichita. Let's grow our own town! Let's take pride in our city instead of bickering over where to build...it's only an extra two miles! How many people are willing to drive to the casinos but not a new hospital????? Let's get our priorities straight!! |
| Posted By: If you only knew Posted On: Sep 5, 2008 Views: 403 | Need to build it I have read through all of the comments that have ben posted. Here are the facts The land was donated so that cost has been spared, yes the untilities will cost more to get put out that far initially, but again the land is FREE. The current hospital is currently being held together by a band aid so to speak....Asbestoes in the ceilings, so they can't be worked on, not to mention if it becomes disturbed then everyone can breath it because it will get into the ventilation systems. Special equipment has to be ordered becuase the current facility doe not have piped in AIR that amny of the machines require, therefore costing more becuase you now have to have two pieces of equipment to run the one that neds the air. The plumbing is bad and canot be repaired in several places in the hospital. The windows leak in the patients rooms. The isolation roms are not truely isolation rooms, more of a kep it at the back of the hospital hopefully noone will know that there is a patient in isolation abck there. They need a bigger ER to treat the patients no matter how far you have to drive, if there is not a room for you you will not get seen ANYWAY DUH! As for the DOCs, you know until you have went to medical school, and you have all of the wnswers, maybe you should realize that there is not a fix all pill for the winers and complainers who are non compliant in taking their medications and expect the doctor to be able to take care of them properly. Maybe it is you who should try to do what the doctors tell you to do, then maybe they can figure out what is and what is not working. The City needs a new hospital....or else you can all travel to Oklahoma or Winfield and then you can complain about the cost of you tires, gas and food for the day |
| Posted By: Concerned about the responses Posted On: Sep 5, 2008 Views: 410 | New Hospital Sometimes I think the people of Ark City just want to argue. There is no way the existing hospital can be remodled, renovate, expanded upon or in any other way continued to be used. It seems the only thing Ark City residents can agree on is that Winfield can stay out of it. Well if the new hospital is not built Winfield might get their way and have the only hospital in the area. What do the residents in Ark City really want? Seems as thought there are two choices 1. Build a new hospital 2. don't build a new hospital. Choice one allows Ark City to continue to grow and have there own facility or the second choice will lead to Ark City having to travel to Winfield or worse Wichita for medical care. Either way it is alot farther to travel to Winfield or Wichita than to travel to The proposed site of the new facility. Please everyone stop with the arguing and use a rational mind to make the necessary decision in this very important matter. |
| Posted By: New patient Posted On: Sep 4, 2008 Views: 397 | Coming back is better I have to say that I had visited AC in the past about every 3 to 6 months. Never venturing into town or north. This past Christmas we spent in town, I was delighted to visit the improvements to AC. A new theater north of town was grand as any in the big cities but more personal. Whoa! A bigger Wal-mart and open around the clock was a wonderful distraction for me being used to this convenience. The town had a new polish with fancy lights, new paint and flowers as if you cared. Having grown up in AC then moved to a large city, I appreciated the comforts afforded me and stayed in town longer and spent money here more than before. I mentioned to my folks that AC had grown up more and people would most likely feel better coming back to a place that didn't feel like it was becoming a dust bowl. I visit more often and take in the new eateries and the older ones that have spruced up to keep my attention. From an out of towner, and frequent visitor, I appreciate all the changes. Now work on the hospital because I am afraid to leave my parents here in the state it is in. The doctors are all very nice and I am sure most are quite good. Pay for a better place for them to practice, hire enough help to lift the quality of care where others will see the changes made and start to come back to Ark City. |
| Posted By: New patient Posted On: Sep 4, 2008 Views: 400 | Build up Just because the hospital is in a smaller area doesn't mean you can't build up. I know similar hospitals in great locations that build higher, from 2 floors to 6 and in a relatively short time too. They reconstructed in phases and before we knew it, the floors were completed. The hospital is called North Kansas City Hospital. It can be done. It would be sad for area residents to lose their hospital. With the hospital being in the middle of town, it remains the center of activity. Once it moves north or outside the city limits, the town loses some of the charm. I see the town dying starting from south of town and expansion north to meet up to the hospital again. If that's the plan then you have a good start on it. |
| Posted By: oldman Posted On: Sep 4, 2008 Views: 408 | Hospital What about the people who dont have cars? And have to walk or have wheel chairs. Is it ok that they should have to walk 2 miles out of town? They all ready have to walk to Strother Field to find a job or go to a movie. We could make apartments out of the current hospital like the old hospital thats behind Arbys and say the heck with the old part of town. Lets build more north we cant fix the south end it would cost to much. get for real not every one has money to burn |
| Posted By: donna Posted On: Sep 3, 2008 Views: 540 | hospital my apologies. |
| Posted By: evaluator Posted On: Sep 3, 2008 Views: 564 | Hospital Donna: I'm agreeing, not arguing, with you on use of the building, either fixing it up as a hospital or other use. It's hard to comment on here without someone jumping down your throat because everyone reads the posts in the light of their own lamp. |
| Posted By: donna Posted On: Sep 3, 2008 Views: 562 | hospital evaluater: for heavens sakes, just throwing in some ideas and apparently I am not the only one. If we do get a new hospital I am thinking long term about a use for a building that may end up sitting empty for a number of years if it is not to be torn down. There is endless possibilities what could be done later. |
| Posted By: Billy Bob Posted On: Sep 2, 2008 Views: 524 | Hospital Guess most of you people don't get it. A new hospital is going to be built thats the bottom line. Might as well have everybody that shops in AC help pay for it, and not just the one's that live in the city cause local taxpayers will have to foot the bill. And who cares where its at. |
| Posted By: evaluator Posted On: Sep 2, 2008 Views: 532 | Use of hospital building "donna" remarked that the old hospital sounded like a really safe place to be in, then questioned whether or not someone could use the building. If it gets fixed up and is safe enuf for someone else, why isn't it safe enough for its current use if fixed up? Since Lincoln School was condemned as unusable by our elementary-age children, then fixed up and used for PALS children (hmmmm...), surely the hospital building can be purchased cheaply and re-used. |
| Posted By: ArkCitizen Posted On: Sep 2, 2008 Views: 534 | New Hospital VS New Doctors A new hospital will not make the doctors and nurses any better at their jobs. The idea that a new hospital will draw new, higher trained doctors is preposterous. What makes you think that we will be able to pay more doctors and nurses ON TOP of paying for a new hospital? My opinion is, if we need to build, and it sounds like we do, build in the Parking lot North of the Present building, get a good basic hospital started, so patients can be cared for, then tear down the old hospital and build the rest, as well as leaving some for parking. And build a parking lot East of first where people already park in the mud. |
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