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MyspacePeople living around Cottage Healthcare Systems near Oak Park complain about helicopter noise because of the new helipad on top of the new building. It is so disturbing they feel they are living in a war zone. Sadly, their quality of life is inconsequential to CHS and, simply put, they chose to live in the wrong place and the system doesn’t like complaints. To quote a response to a recently published comment on this: “well…just move!” It’s just that simple – please get out of here because you expect too much from the community.
What happened to the lovely St. Francis hospital? CHS bought the property and built housing for some of their staff, while becoming a real estate agent for the rest.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has decided that corporations are relevant individuals. If this is so and we believe in survival of the fittest, people are obsolete. Get lost! Quit complaining! Move!
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Hello?!
First, Cottage is a non-profit!
Secondly, there's really not much difference in noise now than 5 years ago! How do I know? I've lived there and have spent considerable time recently once again in that direct area.
Grow up people!
To equate this with Citizen's United is just desperate . Sorry. I'm sure you're a nice person.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
April 26, 2012 at 8:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Dear Ms. Johnson. I am genuinely sorry that our citys planning and review process failed your neighborhood.
DonMcDermott (anonymous profile)
April 28, 2012 at 8:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Gentlemen...Big medicine is not going to deliver health care access or quality. The neighborhood that fails again and again surrounds UCLA and Sedars Sinai. The naive property owners believed in the system and bargained away their peace of mind and right to their existence in exchange for dense housing, persistent and disturbing noise, intractable traffic problems and lack of access to health/medical care.
So CHCS is a non-profit! That means the system is a well-endowed organization that doesn't pay property tax to compensate for all the services that are provided on the backs of the tax payers who do. Perhaps you can ask your foundation to mitigate this.
Please provide data that shows the efficacy of your helipad and build out of what used to be an affordable community hospital. Two months of helipad noise and five years worth of whatever measurement you purport to own doesn't show a trend and the complaints show what an arrogant neighbor The Cottage Hospital Health Care System has been come.
Thank you both for your patronizing response.
gsjoh (anonymous profile)
April 28, 2012 at 6:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Anytime.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
April 28, 2012 at 7:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I hate it when people complain. I come home to my wife and screaming kids (aged 22-30) then I've got to mow the lawn (on my three acre ranch) then I have to take the grandkids to soccer practice, and on top of it all my Rolls Royce won't start so I gotta call the mechanic to come over and fix it (had to shell out $1000) so the last thing I need is to turn on my computer and read this garbage.
fivedolphins (anonymous profile)
April 29, 2012 at 2:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)