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Show Kamas needs better care, doctors Wife tells county Summit County's contract with Holy Cross.for health care services is still pending. But the County Commission was busy Tuesday with a complaint from the wife of Kamas doctor, who said the south end of the county was being neglected. Betty Ledlie, who works with husband Dr. William Ledlie in Kamas, told the Record that the Holy Cross county plans for after-hours emergency service orients the whde5t6uw tofrafdd Park City. She also appeared before Com m issidhers t ftf f Blon- qutet'and'Gerald Young to ask about the Ledlies acquiring acquir-ing Space' in the( 'county's Kamas clinic. She said the couple discussed' it with County ' Health' 'Director Frank' Singleton,' who felt about half the clinic space" would be used by the county. Blonquist told the Record the commission will make ' sure the county's needs are satisfied. "Then we'll look at , what other space is available, avail-able, " he said. He said a ' transaction with the space could . be made at Us fair-market value. "Is one dollar a year a fair-market value in Coalville?" Coal-ville?" asked Mrs. Ledlie, alluding to the rent paid by Holy Cross over the last year, when it operated the Coalville clinic. Kamas is in need of medical equipment, she told the record. "But I guess we're just South Summit." Commissioners have discussed dis-cussed a $50,000 subsidy to Holy Cross, which would provide the Kamas-Coalville area with after-hours phone service tied in to Salt Lake, and from there to Holy Cross doctors in Park City. "You're telling me that in an emergency, emer-gency, we have to drive to to Park City.. "You're telling Park City, to be charged through the nose," she said. "That's not being available." avail-able." But if patients request it, the line would call local doctors to a case, said Holy Cross administrator Ken-neth Ken-neth Rock. A county-wide service would keep tabs on the whereabouts of Dr. Ledlie, he added. The after-hours after-hours phone line now installed instal-led in Coalville, he said, acts as an answering service for local doctor Wayne Bos-worth. Bos-worth. Commissioner Blonquist said the county planned to discuss it further with Dr. Ledlie. "We didn't want to dwell on it Tuesday." In a related topic, the commissioner said at this writing, Holy Cross was sending a rough draft proposal propo-sal for next year's contract in the mail. |