Healthcare coalition to meet Monday

The Sonoma Valley Health Care Coalition is holding a public meeting Monday to discuss a public-opinion survey of what sort of new hospital voters would support.
Chuck Rund of Charlton Research will make a presentation at the meeting, which starts a little after 7 p.m. at the Sonoma Community Center.
Coalition member Bob Edwards didn’t want to reveal too much about results of the scientific survey, which was conducted in early April.
“Very interesting results. I don’t want to reveal to much about it,” he said.
Surveyors contacted some 500 likely voters and asked them questions about four hospital options: on Broadway and Napa Road; a 56-bed hospital in-town near the present Andrieux Street hospital; a 25-bed hospital near the current hospital; and a privately funded hospital on Eighth Street East.
Edwards said that the coalition hasn’t reached a decision about which option to recommend to the hospital board.
“That’s one thing we really want to make clear… this is not Moses coming down with the tablets,” Edwards said