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There is are major flaws in Ms Gardners' contention that Tehachapi does not need a hospital. Perhaps the most glaring is that 'by law' an ambulance cannot service an Urgent Care facility.  So, if you need medical help in a hurry, you will either have to drive your heart attack victim - hopefully not yourself or a near loved one - to the urgent care and then to a full service hospital 45 miles away, or call an ambulance and have them transport the victim directly to an accredited medical facility.   The ambulance must have 'the responsible party' to sign the victim into an emergency room in Bakersfield or Lancaster or wherever, which means that that party either has to go in the ambulance with the patient or follow the ambulance down the hill  -which I did, from the Tehachapi Hospital Emergency Room, several times years ago when my husband was the patient. While a paient might be stabilized in a medical booth at WalMart, if the emergency is real, you need a...
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