In the plans for the new hospital, Kearney Regional Medical Center, doctors have proposed zoning for a new assisted living facility in addition to the hospital and its offices. However, Kearney already has at least six large assisted living facilities - including the two-story Northridge Senior Living Facility - as well as several smaller assisted living facilities. The forty doctors who want to build Kearney Regional are dissatisfied with the way Catholic Health Initiatives runs Good Samaritan, so I understand why they want to build a new hospital, but what reason do they have to build yet another assisted living facility?
Cardiologist Ahmed C. Kutty is satisfied working at Good Samaritan and he claims that these other doctors want to build a for-profit hospital because they are greedy. The fact that these doctors want to create a space for another assisted living facility that Kearney doesn't really need seems to support Kutty's claim; however, at this point, no one has asked the doctors for Kearney Regional how they feel about Good Samaritan's assisted living facility. Perhaps, the doctors who want to open Kearney Regional believe that those who run Good Sam are not respecting their elders.
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