Peter Romanowsky on Healthcare in Marin and Sonoma Counties from Sausalito

Taken from nov. 3rd general election for Marin Healthcare District

Hello my name is Peter Romanowsky I am 49 years old and have lived in Marin County for some 35 Years. I am the father of two grown children and one teenage daughter, who also lives in this district. I have a ministerial background as a former pastor of an evangelical church, which met in the facilities of the Woodacre Improvement Club, before moving to Stewart Chapel "sundays" on the grounds of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo. During the seventies I was originally licensed and interned as a General Baptist Minister before organizing a charismatic church of which I was the founding pastor, with my brother Bronik Romanowsky. I was then recruited, ordained and made vice president of the New Covenant Evangelistic Association Inc. headquartered in Richmond California, with Rev. Lee Avent as secretary and A. Rev. Ancel B. Cradder as president. The N.C.E.A. is an interdenominational ministerial alliance incorporated to help new ministries and missionaries get established, with non profit status and credentials. I also travelled extensively as an international missionary evangelist to Scandinavia, Europe in general, Near East and Middle East as well as Mexico, on some ten overseas missions. I was also a religious radio broadcaster in the bay area and co-founded a thrift store in San Rafael related to our church activities. Which consisted of a halfway house ministry in San Anselmo which also doubled as the only known homeless shelter in the Ross Valley area, in that time period.I have had a lot of experience in helping the addicted, homeless, showerless, foodless, phone less and loveless. I have learned that the most healing experience is to let people have comfort, safety, dignity love and caring in a stressless environment. Nothing is more healing then finding a place of safety, where all that is expected of a person is to make church, rest, look for work if able and avoid drugs, alcohol and sex on the premises, as well as cigarettes inside the house. I have let people just lay on my couch for months just to let them heal from all the stress that life can heap on a person at times. I was able to do this without any government help or tax dollars. I didn't even know at the time how to get people on SSI or welfare, to help ease the load. I have very little tolerance for those that say it takes a thousand dollars a day to heal someone in an institutional situation. Lets cut back on money for unnecessary treatment that benefits foundations and doctors more then the needy and begin to give them rest, food and shelter and the basic things they need, so that their body and minds can begin to repair themselves, with a little help from the doctors and a lot of help from God. Our sometimes big cold an indifferent MGH Corp./Sutter Healthcare is a gigantic waste of tax dollors at times. Turning away people who need basic care then spending thousands treating them when they become seriously ill. More needs to be done on preventative care, physical examinations, basic human kindness, showers, warmth, good food, in institutions.

I have a burden and concern for the elderly, poor and working tax paying middle class, youth, homeless and the state in general of our HEALTH CARE DISTRICT. With managed care from the top, non medical staff are making life and death decisions based on the bottom line. Instead of Management CARE FROM THE TOP, we need a system and a hospital, that will work within a budget with equality for all. I want to see better treatment for the mentally ill. I would like to see our MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL back under COMMUNITY CONTROL.

With the latest Sacramento court ruling throwing out the conflict of interest clauses concerning the CEO of MGH Corporation and it's former council, due to alleged statute of limitations, the appel will go on. It's no secret that with the Sutter Healthcare giant based in Sacromento, that the courts are feeling a lot of local pressure. Might is not right, but right is might, in the long run we will prevail.

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