>>PROPOSAL OMITS EMERGENCY LOAN>>“As a public agency, ETHD cannot legally make a ‘gift of public funds’ for $1.15M for the benefit of a for-profit corporation”HEALTH CARE | The Eden Township Healthcare District really wants to support the purchase of Hayward’s… Read More ›
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Forerunner To St. Rose’s Questionable New Operator Hit With $95,000 Fine
Prime’s Dr. Prem Reddy HAYWARD | While the health care system in Alameda County undergoes significant growing pains in the run-up to Obamacare coming in 2014, the questionable acquisition of St. Rose Hospital by a group with close ties to… Read More ›
Valle, Hayashi Set Course For A Battle Over St. Rose Hospital
ELECTION ‘12//ALCO SUPERVISOR DIST 2 | The fate of St. Rose Hospital may be entwined with Supervisor Richard Valle’s bid to retain his seat on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors this November. Following a decade on its Board of Directors, the hospital now… Read More ›
Controversial Health Care Provider May Be An Option For St. Rose
HEALTH CARE Prem Reddy, founder of Prime Mar. 9, 2012 | Several Alameda County and Hayward officials say Prime Healthcare, the controversial Southern California care provider under state investigation for its business practices, has shown interest in purchasing the struggling St. Rose Hospital…. Read More ›
Whew! The Mess Brought On By Prime Nearly Came To San Leandro
REPORT: PRIME OVERBILLED COSTLY DIAGNOSES TO MEDICAREBy Steven TavaresSteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.com@eastbaycitizen on twitter In June 2009, a slight, dark-skinned Indian man with a bright smile and the words of fast-talking carnival barker thoroughly aroused the hopes and dreams of hundreds of San Leandro… Read More ›
Sutter CEO: ‘It’s Not Our Mission to Maximize Profits’
BLOOMBERG FEATURE ON SUTTER’S MARKET POWER FUELS DEBATE ON SKY-HIGH HEALTH CARE COSTS Sutter operates both Eden Medical Center and San Leandro Hospital, while holding 35 percent of the market in Northern California. “Sutter really has us over a barrel,” a retired… Read More ›
When a Conflict of Interest Claim Fails
BANKRUPTCY JUDGE’S RULING MAY POSE PROBLEMS FOR DISTRICT’S LEGAL FIGHT By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen SUTTER vs THE DISTRICTReeling in debt and forced to file bankruptcy in 2007, Valley Health System, the local healthcare district representing two Inland Empire hospitals was… Read More ›
The Ballad of Sutter and Prime
Sutter Health CEO Pat Fry and Prime Healthcare Owner Dr. Prem Reddy By MILO MINDERBINDER This is a tale of two pizza parlors. One was located downtown, the other uptown, and both were own by Mr. Sutter. He took ownership of… Read More ›
Sutter and Doctors Groups Prosper
CRISIS IN NORCAL HEALTH SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTED BY SUTTER AND SLH SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALWhen it comes to framing the San Leandro Hospital situation as a populist issue–pitting regular folks at odds with a billion dollar corporations–cobbling doctors with nurses and residents… Read More ›
Sutter Threatened Litigation Against Hospital Suitor
PRIME HEALTH TOLD TO BACK OFF; COMMENTS MADE IN THE CITIZEN LED TO LETTER By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen Sutter Health sent a letter within the past two weeks to both the Eden Township Healthcare District and Prime Healthcare, the… Read More ›
Different Views of Prime from One End of the State To Another
HEALTH PROVIDER INTERESTED IN SLH, TAKES REDDING HOSPITAL FROM BANKRUPTCY TO $38M IN REVENUE WITHIN YEAROne year ago, the tranquil city of Redding was facing the likelihood of losing Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC), one of its two local hospitals…. Read More ›
Sutter Nixes Hybrid Model with SoCal Health Provider
SUTTER: WHEN IT COMES TO PRIME, TALK TO THE HAND By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen Earlier this month, Sutter Health, which operates San Leandro Hospital, refused an offer allowing the Southern California-based Prime Healthcare to run the beleaguered hospital as… Read More ›
Potential Hospital Buyer Met with Sutter Last Month
SUTTER SHOWED NO INTEREST IN THE OFFERPrime Healthcare, the Southern California hospital operator with designs on taking over San Leandro Hospital, met with Sutter Health officials last month, according to the CEO of Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding–one of… Read More ›
A Prime example of Health Care havoc
CAUTIONARY TALE? PRIME’S RECENT ACQUISITION IN REDDING If you view a hospital system as a symbiotic relationship, then a foreign entity has the capability to throw order into disarray. Depending on your outlook, the hospital group hoping to purchase San… Read More ›
The Prem Reddy Reader
Hospital Group Rejects System and Cashes In Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2007 The most critical news story published about Prime Healthcare and its owner Dr. Prem Reddy was this Los Angeles Times feature. Contained within it is the most… Read More ›
Video: Prime Laid Off 150 Nurses after Buying Redding Hospital
One of Dr. Prem Reddy’s most generous offers is his willingness to honor the current collective bargaining agreement with employees at San Leandro Hospital, if he is able to purchase it. Is that bluster or not? The night of Reddy’s… Read More ›
Video: Prime’s Reddy Interview Reveals Pro-Business Stance
Last November, Dr. Prem Reddy flew to Shasta County in Northern California carrying the same bag of promises to save the nearly bankrupt Shasta Regional Medical Center as he presented two weeks ago to the people of San Leandro. In… Read More ›
Daily Review has Printed Just 63 words against Possible Hospital Bidder
DEATH OF NEWSPAPERS AND THE RISE OF MISINFORMATIONIt is likely the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will force Sutter Health to faithfully negotiate with Prime Healthcare, the owner of 13 hospitals in the state and known for a few shady… Read More ›
It’s Not Over: In Non-Binding Vote Directors Reject Alameda County
SUPERVISOR ALICE LAI-BITKER WILL RECOMMEND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RESCIND COUNTY OFFER…..DIRECTOR RATNESAR ABSTAINS FROM VOTE…..SUTTER CEO LEFT DUMBFOUNDED…..OVER 500 PEOPLE PACK LIBRARY…..UNION REP SAYS “IT’S NOT OVER” THOUGH. By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen San Leandro Hospital lives to fight another… Read More ›
Let’s get into the Hospital Business
THE EDITORIAL San Leandro Councilman Michael Gregory loathes the idea of a hospital closing in his district under his watch “for any reason.” There really isn’t a good occasion for such a critical service to be lost, but during trying… Read More ›
Hearings have Revealed Sutter’s True Intentions
By DOUG JONES The District Board will end hours of public comment on Monday by voting whether to accept or reject a proposal by Alameda County Medical Center’s Fairmont campus to move their rehabilitation unit to the Hospital campus, with… Read More ›
Powerful Lobbyist Enters Hospital Fray
POLITICALLY CONNECTED PRIME BRINGS IN REPUBLICAN BRULTEMany things have changed since Dr. Prem Reddy set foot in San Leandro this week. Not only did he capture the imagination of the city with a bevy of solutions the cities problems, but… Read More ›
Supes Approve Eden EIR; Miley urges Hospital Owners to Deal
NOTICEABLE THAW AFTER NEWS OF PRIME’S POSSIBLE BIDOAKLAND, Calif. – Sutter Health is closer to breaking ground on their new $400 million hospital at Eden Medical Center. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the long-awaited final environmental impact… Read More ›
County Reiterates Proposal; Possible Bidder Wows Crowd
REDDY GIVES AUDIENCE WHAT THEY WANT: HOPE(?)Dr. Prem Reddy knocked them dead. The possible savior-in-waiting for San Leandro Hospital whipped an overflow crowd into a frenzy of hooting and hollering before eliciting a standing ovation during Monday night’s hearing to… Read More ›
Hayashi did not vote on Similar Hospital Bill
ASSEMBLY SPEAKER SAT ON LEGISLATION AGAINST PRIME LAST YEARLast week, Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi trumpeted her efforts to save San Leandro Hospital with legislation that would allow for hospital district residents to have more control of the fate of their hospitals,… Read More ›
Prime Healthcare is not the Solution to Hospital Woes
FOR-PROFIT OWNER FAVORS HEALTH CARE IF YOU HAVE THE MONEYThe inclusion of Prime Healthcare into the San Leandro Hospital equation may have larger ramification on the sick and infirm than the loss of the hospital. The for-profit health care provider… Read More ›
