What Makes Watsonville Community Hospital—and America—Great

What Makes Watsonville Community Hospital—and America—Great

Thirty-three years ago, while my family was preparing for a birthday party, I decided to arrive early. My mother was shopping for a cake for my sister’s second birthday in our small hometown of Cuerámaro, Guanajuato, Mexico—a rural town of at the time just 12,000 people—when labor hit suddenly. There was no time to reach the nearest hospital, nearly an hour away. Instead, I was born in a tiny clinic not much bigger than a $1,000-a-month apartmen…