To the Editor:

I have been coming to the LBI area for over 60 years. Back then, if you needed a hospital you were at the mercy of the traffic on the Parkway and either trekking to Atlantic City or Toms River. When Southern Ocean County Hospital was first built and in its infancy, it was essentially a glorified medical emergency or triage station. Not today.

During those 60 years, I was fortunate in that I never had to utilize the services of our local hospital, but in the past month, both my wife and I had to…

July 30, 2020