Courier service loses grant funds

I was amazed & appalled at the action of the Fallbrook Healthcare District board in turning down the Fallbrook Hospital Auxiliary’s grant request to cover insurance expense in operating the Courier Service for patients of the doctors of Fallbrook Hospital. Our couriers are all volunteers who use their own cars and the courier van when necessary. Last year they supplied 1,482 care rides and 661 van rides for a total of 2,143 trips for patients. Many of the people served have no other way to get to care. The Hospital Auxiliary is primarily a service organization to provide support to patients of the Fallbrook Hospital. They are not a fundraising organization that can support this activity from fundraising. I would like to suggest that patients and their families who have benefited from the courier service call or write the members of the Fallbrook Healthcare District and make it plain how vital this service is to the community. The Healthcare District is at 577 E. Elder St., Fallbrook, 92028, and their telephone number is (760) 731-9187. Members of the District Board are Ken Price, president; Dr. Roy Hiscock, vice president; Andrew Perry, secretary; Sharon Mullin; and Dan Goldberg.

Betty Long

Fallbrook