To the Editor:

When I received a letter from the chief medical officer of St. Peter’s Health Partners, I felt upset. Here are my questions for him.

If, as you say, the mission at St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates is to provide patients with the highest quality health care that you can, then please explain to me, how you can justify what you have done to all of Dr. Hedy Migden’s patients by just shutting down her practice without first letting her patients know.

What you have done was very unprofessional. Then people wonder why medical insurance is so high. They also wonder why emergency rooms are so busy and why urgent-care facilities are always busy.

That's where I was sent when all I needed was a prescription and I couldn’t yet see my new doctor.

Dr. Hedy Migden is an excellent doctor I have trusted her for years. She has been right on top of my medical care.

I have found a new primary-care physician, not by choice.

Because if anything goes wrong before my first scheduled appointment, on Aug. 16, I was told to go to the emergency room or urgent care. If it comes to those choices, are you going to pay for that care?

As, a patient of Dr. Hedy Migden, I would like to show my support for her.

Dr. Migden is not only an outstanding physician, but she shows deep concern for her patients.

Trinity Health, which administers St. Peter’s Health Partners just shut down Dr. Migden’s practice, leaving her patients in an awful predicament.

This is a situation that should have been handled in a more professional way.

Is this what patients have to be concerned about with other doctors who are a part of Trinity Health? Do we have to be afraid of Trinity Health shutting down more physicians?

For patients of Dr. Migden, who feel the way I do and want to show support for Dr. Migden ler’s start writing letters to:

Thomas Lawrence, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer

St. Peter’s Health

Medical Associates

710 Rush St.

South Bend IN 46601

Janet E. Nopper

Colonie

Editor’s note: Janet E. Nopper first became a patient of Hedy Migden when she lived n Altamont.