Discussion focuses on rural health care

Last Saturday saw a brief discussion in Thermopolis regarding rural health care.

Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital CEO Margie Molitor said a large part of the discussion was in regard to the Wyoming Pioneer Home, as it is again on the “chopping block” and being considered for privatization.

Molitor said the discussion also hit on points of having affordable health care, the impact of having local health care so people don’t have to go to a hospital the next town over and the new Big Horn Basin partnership.

The partnership, she explained, provides an opportunity for health care facility reps from all over the basin to come together and visit about topics relevant to all of them. Molitor will be attending a meeting of the partnership next Monday.