Camelot - or what might have been
Camelot - or what might have been
By: JoeAnn King
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Posted by SrMalcontent Mon Nov 6, 2006 06:39:39 PST
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0 responses 0 comments Having an imagination can be a real drag at times - you see what could be, even though you know that very few others have similar dreams/thoughts/goals.
The is almost a mantra about Tehachapi Hospital.
"The hospital is small, rural, with little ability to become anything else - - and when we say we will never be able to + + + whatever - - - become anything else other than a small rural facility, we are satisfied with that.
Is this the Ideal Facility of those who are limited in vision, self satisfied, guarding fiefdoms - to quote another source - fearful of change - or must it be a reality?
Somewhere 'down the yellow brick road', couldn't Tehachapi/East Kern Healthcare Districts have become a medical center for research and treatment of a specific medical problem (Space Medicine for example, whatever that might be?)?
We are withing spitting distance of Edwards AFB, Mojave International Space Port 1, close to large medical centers, - UCLA, USC, Loma Linda, Scripps, etc. With the magic of Tele-medicine, couldn't our 'new hospital' have become an integral part of the future?
When Tehachapi Hospital was awarded a $1.5 AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) grant to, among other goals, put an ITA (Information Technology Association) in place- these funds to be matched by the district and the area physician community for a total of $3 million, some 2 years ago,it seemed that we might be on our way. However, with the exception of the principal officers (2) of a recently incorporated ITA, there is singularly little interest from the medical community in the project. The status quo seems to be ruling Tehachapi, as usual, and Camelot is just that - the dream of a few - Mr Mojave, the departing CEO of TVHD and the SrMalcontent, among very few others, of what might have been.
To those of you familiar with the Arthurian Legends - cast the characters- I have dibs on Merlin.
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