At the Wrangell Medical Center Board meeting March 28, local physician Greg Salard told board members he has no intention of leaving town despite his hospital privileges being revoked.

“I have full intentions of getting my credentials back one way or the other, and my wife and kids and I are not going anywhere,” he said.

WMC board members, acting as a separate committee, voted in early March to deny Salard the right to continue to work at the city-owned hospital. Salard is a physician employed by Alaska Island Community Services, and was previously under contract to work at WMC on a t...