July 31, 2008
Dear Commissioner Vogel:
As a citizen of the Greater Waterbury community who cares deeply about access to quality healthcare, I strongly urge you to allow the Heart Center of Greater Waterbury to continue providing critical heart care services at both Waterbury Hospital and Saint Mary’s Hospital.
In the last three years, the center has saved more than 2,400 hearts. In treating critical care patients, the center has consistently achieved clinical outcomes that meet or exceed national standards. The center’s services, which include open heart surgery as well as elective and primary angioplasty, have provided the Waterbury community with an outstanding level of care that had previously been lacking.
Having these services located close to our homes, in a community with which we are most familiar and comfortable, has made it possible for the people of Greater Waterbury to receive quality, lifesaving care when they need it most.
In any and all future proceedings, however modified, with the Office of Health Care Access, please register my strong support for the continuation of these services on a permanent basis. Without this crucial cardiac program, people’s lives will surely be lost, and I believe that every heart matters!
Re: Docket numbers 08-30167-MD-2 and 08-31202 |