OUTLOOK 2016: Continuing a plan to bring more healthcare services to town

Gordon Tinker

President, Board of Directors

Fallbrook Healthcare District

The year 2015 for Fallbrook Healthcare District (FHD) was as challenging as 2014. It was a continuation of the district’s challenges to determine and develop a path and plan for healthcare accessibility within the community without a hospital.

Fallbrook Hospital had served this community for well over 50 years. It held a history of a facility and staff, committed to birthing babies, serving chronic, acute and emergency medical needs on an in- and out-patient basis from diagnostic, surgical, and medicinal perspectives as...