Letter: In summation:

For the past five years, it was my pleasure to care for the heart failure patients of Naples Community Hospital.

It was a job that I loved and it nearly broke my heart to walk away. But the volume of patients and intensity of the workload was simply too great for one person.

To my patients: Please remember all that I taught you. Weigh yourself daily, take your meds and watch the salt intake!

To the physicians: Please care for these patients as though they are family, for they are someone’s family.

To the NCH administration: I am profoundly disappointed with the way that these patients were treated — dismissed after my resignation, with their cries for help ignored.

The reluctance to even share the truth with them was astonishing.

It is time to end the era of the “good old boy network” and abandon the Peter Principle as a promotion strategy.

Do you really need 13 vice presidents? You are accountable to this community and by this community you will be judged.

Finally, to the NCH Board of Trustees: Isn’t it time we put patient care before politics?

Sara Billings/Naples