[Villages Kahuna]

I didn't have the opportunity to attend the presentation by The Villages Regional Hospital last night, which was sponsored by the VHA. I found the article covering the meeting in today's Daily Sun interesting.

After all the negativity and castigation of the hospital last year by the POA, it looks like somehow progress has been made without their involvement. The article said that TVRH Emergency Room services were rated in the top 10% of hospitals in the U.S. recently. That was the main issue about which the POA was critcizing everyone in sight, from the developer (who doesn't own the hospital), TVRH management and staff, to anyone else they could think of. They were particularly critical of the VHA for declining their invitation to join them in their criticism of the hospital and demands for improvements in TVRH ER.

The article said that the VHA worked quietly with the management of TVRH to achieve the improvements in the ER and to formulate the plans for further improvements in hospital facilities and services which were announced at the meeting. The VHA involvement has been so effective that they have been invited to serve in a couple of positions on TVRH Board of Directors.

No word of the POA in this scenario. It's possible, I suppose, that they might take some credit for improvements in ER services as the result of their very public criticism and their letter-writing campaign against the hospital. But it looks like the VHA were the ones who rolled up their sleeves and went to work with TVRH management and staff to achieve the improvements that have occurred.

Three cheers for the VHA! Keep up the good (and positive) work.