LETTER TO THE EDITOR | A new name doesn’t mean better care at Whidbey General

Editor, I am going to keep this simple and short. Was a new hospital administrator hired to facilitate needed change, or to focus on renaming the medical network on Whidbey Island? What’s all the fuss about? A name change doesn’t improve health care. Why change the long-standing identity of Whidbey General Hospital?

March 9, 2016 10:00 am

Editor,

I am going to keep this simple and short. Was a new hospital administrator hired to facilitate needed change, or to focus on renaming the medical network on Whidbey Island?

What’s all the fuss about? A name change doesn’t improve health care. Why change the long-standing identity of Whidbey General Hospital?

Webster defines a hospital as an institution where the sick or injured are given medical or surgical care. What’s wrong with that? Is there a need for a costly name change? Absolutely not!

MAGGIE LYEN

Langley