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.
The vice president is Pat Chaney. She retired from Oracle before taking up that mantle. She’s the one who specifically is requesting the reason for each of the children being flown to be reported to her.
Yes, Oracle. That Oracle.
A merit-based appointment, I’m sure. /s
She may be the one putting her name to the council’s requests, but they should all be on the hook for this ongoing abuse. The idle rich amusing themselves and finding their purpose by harassing the help: born to be our supervisors, aren’t they all?
Ooh. That tracks.