Hopefully, you are thinking “ohhhhhh” by now…lets move on.

You obviously are an ECMC supporter, or have family who works there. Clearly you are used to reporting and being responsible to government and are trying to twist facts about who should be providing what to whom. You are so used the being accountable to state government that you are trying to insist Newco do the same. This is not the case. Get past your tunnel vision, biased opinion about what they are doing. You are trying to smear them in any way you think you can to destroy their credibility to push your own agenda on the people of Western New York.

All anyone from that panel has done, FOR YEARS, is to make healthcare better for the people of Buffalo, the community they serve. Our state government came to Kaleida and said we have too many unused beds in Buffalo, we need to consolidate. Kaleida obliged from the beginning and continues to make progress in spite of ECMC’s policy of standing outside the tent.

If you are going to point the fingers at anyone, point it at Mr. Collins and Mr. Young and their support to block the millions of dollars that would go into updating and constructing a modern flagship hospital capable of serving the entire area and bring everyone on board. ECMC chooses to bury everything in bureaucracy and cause years and years of delay by filing law suits stating the Berger Commission doesn’t have the authority to do what they did. Mind you, the Berger Commissions recommendations were made into law and as of June 30th, ECMC is in violation not to mention delaying premiere services being made available to the community.

Do we really want people in Albany telling us how to run our hospitals in Buffalo? That is what is really at stake here. Not whether or not you can get your measly meeting minutes or any process to get inside information about a private not-for-profit organization.

By the way, the events you have outlined as taking place in these meetings are what take place in every board room around the country. If you are so narrow minded to think Newco will not cover the bases that need to be covered, including funding, you are sadly mistaken.

You also mentioned the fact they use “NEWCO” even though it is not registered? It stands for “New Company” because they have not decided on a name yet. Could you possibly nit pick about anything else so irrelevant about Newco?

Who hired you anyway?