Thursday, November 7, 2024

Ice chips!

  Thirty years ago when the hospital in Asheville didn't have clean ice chips for the suffering, loved ones and caring practicioners brought ice cream machines and bottled water!  It was around the time Israel got more into de-salting water.  And recycling, re-purposing was gaining in strength to offset "trickle down".

  It was a big story.  Because it brought up "issues" about divisions between people regarding resources and overcoming types/categories/-isms.  And overcoming bias with caring was ground-moving in the old south.

  It was the start of WNC's exceptional health care network.




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