When questions turned from quality of care to old grudges between commissioners and the hospital, opinions divided. You like the service, you feel like you re getting good medical care. Yet on other issues, you feel somewhat negative. Like the bitter fight over who foots the bill for health care to the poor in Gaston County. One of the three health care questions in the survey asked residents what a fair price would be for the hospital to lease the county land at Court Drive.
Most people don t understand the complexities of health care and the cost to operate the hospital.
Ward also took issue with the other survey question on health care. It had residents grade commissioners for their leadership in overseeing the hospital. Shovelin questioned the wording. Technically, the county commissioners don t have any oversight. The hospital head said he wasn t sure if answers referred to the performance of commissioners or the hospital board.