How Will Healthcare Change?

DAYTON - About 50 local residents, including healthcare providers and community leaders, gath- ered here Tuesday evening for a presentation by the Washington Rural Health Association and to discuss upcoming changes in rural healthcare. Several partici- pants also shared ideas about how health outcomes could be improved in our area.

The Roundtable was sponsored by the Columbia County Health System, which operates Dayton General Hospital and clinics in Dayton and Waitsburg.

The meeting was facili- tated by Sue Deitz, who is Director of the Eastern Washington Critical Access Hospital Network.

Dei...