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October 16, 2012
Dear Mayor Stromberg and City Councillors Chapman, Lemhouse, Morris, Silberger, Slattery
and Voisin:
I know that tonight's meeting with the Ashland Community Hospital Board of Directors is a
chance for you to hear from them about the proposed merger with Dignity Health Systems.
I hope you will ask them this question (and its follow up). Surely this special community and its
people deserve a hearing on the issue of a slightly modified policy by Dignity Health.
If the merger with ACH is a mutually beneficial move, of value to Dignity
Health as well as to ACH, why was/is it not possible to push hard for
Dignity Health to modify its policy (as a one-off modification)for ACH
regarding Physician Assisted end of life options and provision of
abortions?
These are options that Oregonians have fought hard for. Did you fight
hard for them, or will you? Did you just "take no as the answer"' or did
you vigorously defend these legal rights? Is this still an option, to press
for these two modifications to Dignity Health's Catholic Church dictated
policy?
Thank you,
Keith S. Chambers
715 Pennsylvania Avenue
Ashland, Oregon 97520
Tel. 541 482 3 179