When Columbia Memorial Health recently announced it planned to seek a change in designation in an effort to maintain its viability going forward, county Democratic Party Chairman Sam Hodge, in typical fashion, wasted no time. Instead of pausing to learn the lay of the land, he chose to issue an inflammatory statement speaking to some imagined “crisis.”

In assigning blame to the Columbia County Board of Supervisors and myself — many of us having been born and raised in Columbia County — the Democratic chair fails to take into account the actual conditions Columbia Memorial Health is experiencing in regards to the hospital and what led CMH to what it now seeks as a solution.

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