ANALYSISMar. 14, 2012 | Health care districts in San Mateo and Contra Costa County are part of roughly 30 such agencies with large amounts of assets without an actual hospital to oversee, according to a report last weekend in The Bay… Read More ›
Rajendra Ratnesar
‘The Fight Goes On!’ Eden Healthcare District To Petition State Supreme Court
Jan. 4, 2012 | Despite defeats in two lower courts, the Eden Township Healthcare District voted 3-1 to petition the State Supreme Court in its conflict of interest claim against Sutter Health. “The fight goes on!” said District Board Chair Carole… Read More ›
St. Rose Gets $3 Million Loan From Eden District After Billing Snafu
It was only months ago that St. Rose Hospital sought to save the Eden Township Healthcare District and San Leandro Hospital, now the Hayward facility needs a short-term $3 million loan to meet payroll after a software problem stopped it… Read More ›
Healthcare District Files Intent To Appeal Court Decision With Sutter
SUTTER SAYS DISTRICT OWES IT $700,000 IN LEGAL FEESBy Steven Tavares The Eden Township Healthcare District could be on the hook for an additional $700,000 in legal fees if it does not win its appeal of a Superior Court decision… Read More ›
District’s Legal Fees Mount; Supporters Say Continue
HEALTHCARE DISTRICT HAS SPENT $2 MILLION IN SUIT AGAINST SUTTER HEALTHBy Steven Tavares Legal fees for the Eden Township Healthcare District’s lawsuit against Sutter Health has reached $2 million following a minor setback in court last week. The District’s denial… Read More ›
S.L. Surgery Center Caught in the Middle of Hospital Fight
CENTER THREATENS LITIGATION IN HOPES OF EXPEDITING SALE; LEGAL BILLS HIT $1.5 MILLIONBy Steven Tavares The San Leandro Surgery Center has become the neglected child in the long-running custody battle between Sutter Health and the Eden Township Healthcare District over… Read More ›
Speakers Exalt Crowd for Fighting Sutter
Eden Township Healthcare District Board Chair Carole Rogers speaks to supporters Monday evening at a rally in support of saving San Leandro Hospital. Also pictured is Mike Brannan of the California Nurses Association and Zenei Cortez, one of the council… Read More ›
Rogers, Residents Call for Ratnesar to Step Down
RATNESAR CALLS REQUEST ‘INAPPROPRIATE’, SAYS ‘I NEED TO THINK ABOUT THIS’By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen THE DISTRICT v. SUTTERThe chair of the Eden Township Healthcare District took the unprecedented step Wednesday night of calling for the resignation of long-time boardmember Dr…. Read More ›
Rogers to Ask for Ratnesar’s Resignation
BOARD CHAIR SAYS HE VIOLATED DISTRICT’S CONFLICT OF INTEREST CODE By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen THE DISTRICT v. SUTTEREden Township Healthcare District Chair Carole Rogers will ask tonight for the resignation of fellow boardmember Dr. Rajendra Ratnesar. Rogers told The Citizen… Read More ›
Eden District Puts Sutter on the Defensive
DISTRICT’S COMPLAINT MAY LEAD TO SUMMER FACE-OFF OVER CLOSING By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen THE DISTRICT v. SUTTERThe relationship between Sutter Health and the Eden Township Healthcare District is best viewed in phases. The Pax Eden ended in 2004 when the… Read More ›
‘Void and Unenforceable’
EDEN TOWNSHIP DISTRICT FILES COUNTERSUIT AGAINST SUTTER WEDNESDAY MORNING ******** SUIT ALLEGES RATNESAR, RICO, BISCHALANEY OF ‘MAINTAINING FINANCIAL INTEREST’ IN NEGOTIATION OF 2008 AGREEMENT ******** ARBITRATOR: TITLE MUST BE CONVEYED TO SUTTER BY MAR. 31 By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen… Read More ›
Eden District Edging Towards Voiding Disputed MOU
MOVE COULD HEDGE DISTRICT’S BET AGAINST POSSIBLE ARBITRATION LOSS NEXT MONTH By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen THE DISTRICT v. SUTTEROne sentence, albeit–quite a long one at that–has signaled the Eden Township Healthcare District is taking its most ambitious step towards… Read More ›
Three Directors Asked To Recuse Themselves Over Surgery Center
LEGAL QUESTION: IF CONFLICT OF INTEREST EXISTS WITH CENTER, WHY NOT SLH? ************ LAWYER: WEST, SAWHNEY, RATNESAR ALL EMPLOYED BY EDEN/SUTTER By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen The sale of the Eden Township Healthcare District’s share of the San Leandro Surgery… Read More ›
Invoice Casts Doubt on Author of Ratnesar’s Letter
Citizen Exclusive! BILL TO EDEN DISTRICT REFERS TO SUTTER EMPLOYEE AS AUTHOR OF BOARDMEMBER’S DEC. ‘LETTER TO THE COMMUNITY’ By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen The afternoon before the release of Eden Township Healthcare District boardmember Dr. Rajendra Ratnesar’s contentious… Read More ›
Lawyer Out; Questions Begin
EDEN DISTRICT BOARD VOTES TO FIRE LEGAL COUNSEL, 3-2….THREE FORMER BOARDMEMBERS FAIL TO SWAY DIRECTORS….RATNESAR ON HOSPITAL: ‘IT WILL GO DOWN IN FLAMES’…..CRITICS SAY FIRING PUTS NEGOTIATIONS WITH SUTTER AT RISK….ALSO SAY HOSPITAL COULD BE CLOSED JULY 1 By STEVEN… Read More ›
Eden Board to Fire Legal Representation
>>>Citizen Exclusive<<<MAYOR, COUNCILMAN MET WITH WEST; SANTOS SAYS FIRING WOULD HAMPER POSSIBLE ‘ARRANGEMENT’ IN THE WORKSBy STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen Eden Township Healthcare District boardmembers will attempt to fire their legal representation for the second time in less than a week…. Read More ›
Santos Joins the Fight
MAYOR ‘DEMANDS’ HOSPITAL AND ER KEPT OPEN; RESIDENTS CALL FOR RATNESAR’S RESIGNATION By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen HAYWARD, Calif. – San Leandro Mayor Tony Santos made his most forceful public plea yet to save San Leandro Hospital and its ER. Speaking… Read More ›
Eden Board Unsuccessfully Attempts to Fire Counsel
DR. VIN SAWHNEY’S MOTION TO TERMINATE DISTRICT’S COUNSEL FAILS….NEW MEMBER DR. WEST TORPEDOES MOTION…..SAWHNEY: ‘I DO NOT HAVE CONFIDENCE IN HIM.’….LAWYER CALLS SAWHNEY ‘FOOLISH’. By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen HAYWARD, Calif. – Many in the community, including a few local officials,… Read More ›
S.F. Weekly’s Red Scare
SAVE SAN LEANDRO SUPPORTERS UNITE! WHAT?Someone tell SF Weekly if you want to stoke the potent mixture of ideologiy and nationalism, the recipe of the day is fundamentalist Islam, not communism. That’s soooo 1950, comrade. If the post-nuclear war holocaust… Read More ›
Starosciak Slips Up; Santos Gloats
Future of RCV Becomes Battle for Campaign Points | Ratnesar Rallies the Troop(s) | H1N1 to Save Hospital? | Hannity Hawking Chevys in S.L. It’s be a rocky few weeks for the Joyce Starosciak for Mayor campaign proving beating an… Read More ›
Ratnesar’s Letter Ignites Firestorm of Responses
OPEN LETTER ACCUSES DISTRICT MEMBERS OF PUTTING HOSPITALS AT RISK…SEN. CORBETT CALLS IT “ANOTHER SCARE TACTIC”….ROGERS: BOARD DID NOT APPROVE LETTER…DESPITE LAWSUIT, RATNESAR CLAIMS 2008 MOU GIVES SUTTER RIGHTS TO SLH By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen In an open letter to… Read More ›
Rogers: This is Not the Opinion of the Board
By CAROLE ROGERS, RN In response to Dr. Rajendra Ratnesar’s letter to the community: Dr. Ratnesar sent “An Open Letter to the Community” penned by the District’s Public Relations consultant. This letter does not have the approval of the current… Read More ›
EDEN TOWNSHIP GOES WEST
Breaking News–Read it Here FirstDR. BILL WEST APPOINTED UNANIMOUSLY TO REPLACE DR. KRAN By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen HAYWARD, Calif. – The Save San Leandro Hospital constituency got a shot in the arm Wednesday night with the appointment of Dr. Bill… Read More ›
One Question on their Minds: What will you do for SLH?
DVORSKY FEIGNS NOTE TAKING; STARES BLANKLY AT CANDIDATES By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. – Every question the remaining members of the Eden Township Healthcare District posed seemed superfluous except for one. What are your thoughts on San Leandro… Read More ›
Sawhney and Rogers Emerge as Defenders of Hospital
>>>THE EDEN TOWNSHIP HEATLHCARE DIRECTORS<<< DR. RAJENDRA RATNESAR No other member of the Eden Township board has weathered more calls for potential conflict of interest charges than Ratnesar. As an employee of Sutter, he reportedly earns over $100,000 a year… Read More ›
Effort to Recall Eden Board Member is Brewing
THROW THE BUMS OUT EFFORT COULD BE PROBLEMATIC By STEVEN TAVARES The Citizen If you can’t get someone to do what you want, just find another who will. At least that’s the sentiment expressed by a few San Leandro residents… Read More ›
Mediation Merry-Go-Round
EDEN TOWNSHIP CHAIR GIVES ROGERS THE BOOT; REPLACED BY SAWHNEY By STEVEN TAVARESThe Citizen As Sutter Health and the Eden Township Healthcare District meet in mediation starting today, one participant is no longer on the team. Eden Township Director Carole… 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 ›
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 ›
Entire Eden Healthcare Board Advised of Conflict of Interest
SECOND EDEN TOWNSHIP HEARING DRAWS LARGE NUMBERSAn already confusing and critical decision making process is taking a turn for the worst in backroom politics. Eden Township Healthcare Director Dr. Rajendra Ratnesar again refused to answer questions about charges of conflict… Read More ›
