No one says it’s easy being in the health care business. But these days, it’s even more challenging in the Valley area, where professionals have to wrestle with a laundry list of complex issues from how to care for thousands of underinsured people and address the region’s worsening nursing shortage to where to find the millions of dollars in funds needed for mandated hospital upgrades. In our special health care magazine inside this issue, we talk to those on the front lines facing these troubling issues each day and find what’s being done to address the vital future of health care in our region.