Daily writing prompt

What’s one thing that would instantly improve your city?

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In PA they’re called boroughs instead of towns. There are cities, but we don’t live in one.

Anyway, we used to have a community hospital that served the local area for years, but its sale in the late 90s/early 2000s led to a reduction in services and eventual closure. The eventual new ownership had fewer ties to the local community and the focus narrowed to a creation of a site for serving the mentally ill.

There is some movement and periodic clamor among local folks to bring the hospital back, at either the same site or a new one somewhere in the immediate area. Currently, our options for emergency medical care include ambulance service to hospitals that are either 12, 17, or 25 miles away, along with a couple of those smaller outlets that treat cuts and scrapes and bug bites, maybe a broken bone.

So, a revitalized, functioning local hospital is high on many a priority list.