Seattle

2055 readers

9 users here now

A community for news and discussion of Seattle, Washington and the surrounding area

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

steelrat@lemmy.world

Laurelhurst Community Council Isn’t Sure Helicopters Need to Land Sick Kids at the Hospital (www.thestranger.com)

submitted 5 days ago by velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/seattle@lemmy.world

18 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Last week, the Seattle subreddit dredged up a long-time drama between the Laurelhurst neighborhood and Seattle Children’s Hospital about its helicopters.

Seattle Children’s is the go-to specialized pediatric care center for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. When children from near and far away need urgent treatment, they’ll get swooped up by a helicopter and taken to Seattle Children’s. This, the affluent North Seattle neighborhood will tell you, is quite the nuisance.

Such a nuisance that a neighborhood group wanted to make sure the hospital wasn’t landing flights on the helipad for non-emergency reasons, according to meeting minutes from 2021. “There needs to be a medical justification form for each flight (one was a broken leg for example),” said one member. In the six years of documented meetings The Stranger looked at, they had a lot more to say.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 19 points 5 days ago

Per Wikipedia

the average home price [in Laurelhurst] is approximately $1.85 million [...] The LCC has also restricted parking for hospital staff in the surrounding area, requiring employees to use a satellite lot and shuttle. The council has opposed hospital expansion efforts since the 1980s.

No sympathy. They want all the benefits of being rich and privileged in a society, but don't believe they should have to accommodate anyone else in that society. They're wannabe-Lords who don't care if the peasants suffer, add long as the view (and noise) from the Manor House is pretty.