ELECTION ’12//ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERVISOR | With Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi’s plans to run for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors this fall now a certainty, the convicted shoplifter is hoping contrary to what she told the Bay Area News Group this… Read More ›
S.L. Hospital
Why Sutter Health Is So Quiet About San Leandro Hospital’s Future
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | When news Sutter Health had purchased a full-page color advertisement in various newspapers just a day before Alameda County Supervisor Wilma was set to discuss the fairness of the health care provider’s non-profit tax exemption, it… Read More ›
Chan Makes A Run At Sutter’s Tax-Exempt Status; Hospital Responds With Full-Page Ad
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan’s latest attempt to turn the legislative screws on Sutter Health and its likely attempt to shutter San Leandro Hospital may result in further scrutiny over the health care provider’s lucrative non-profit tax… Read More ›
Chan To Raise Issue Of Sutter’s Tax Exempt Status With San Leandro Hospital
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan is again raising the question of Sutter Health’s non-profit tax exemption, as San Leandro and the county struggle to keep San Leandro Hospital in operation. Chan and Board of Equalization member Betty… Read More ›
Candidates For 18th Assembly District, Minus One, Debate In San Leandro
ELECTION ’12//ASSEMBLY 18May 17, 2012 | The cavernous Bal Theatre in San Leandro with its bright light glaring down on three candidates for the 18th Assembly District made it difficult to see the faces of their future constituents. For a… Read More ›
San Leandro Residents, Nurses Cast Hope In County Supervisors Saving Hospital
SAVE LEANDRO HOSPITALMay 3, 2012 | While the possible closing of San Leandro Hospital is now measured in weeks and months, rather than years, there remains optimism the facility and its workers still have options to stave off Sutter’s reported intent… Read More ›
All Quiet On The San Leandro Hospital Front; So They Say
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALApril 23 2012 | Members of the Eden Township Healthcare District say a letter offering title to San Leandro Hospital to Sutter Health is in the mail. Carole Rogers, the chair of the Eden Township Healthcare District, told… Read More ›
Interim St. Rose CEO Says He Would Welcome Being Part Of Eden Township
HAYWARD//ST. ROSE HOSPITALApril 23, 2012 | Despite the approval last week of a joint powers agreement by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and nearby Washington Township Health Care Distict hoping to stave off bankruptcy at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward,… Read More ›
Sutter Health Issues A Statement Regarding San Leandro Hospital
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALApril 19, 2012 | Sutter Health issued a brief statement Thursday afternoon regarding San Leandro Hospital: We are pleased that the California Supreme Court elected not to hear the District’ s appeal, and that the District’s claim that the 2008 agreements… Read More ›
Sutter Health Mum About Plans For San Leandro Hospital After High Court’s Decision
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALApril 18, 2012 | With the Eden Township Healthcare District’s legal options expended, excluding a somewhat quixotic petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, what comes next for patients and employees of San Leandro Hospital is unclear. Sutter Health,… Read More ›
Sutter Wins: State Supreme Court Denies Healthcare District’s Petition
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALApril 12, 2012 | After over two years of legal maneuvering between the Eden Township Healthcare District and Sutter Health, the issue of who owns San Leandro Hospital is fact. The California State Supreme Court Wednesday denied the… Read More ›
Sutter Health Feels Like It Was Attacked, Says County Official
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALMar. 29, 2012 | San Leandro Vice Mayor Michael Gregory says Sutter Health is willing to come back to the negotiating table in the dispute over San Leandro Hospital “if they can come out of this honorably.” Gregory made the comment… Read More ›
St. Rose Gaining Recapitalization Money
ST. ROSEMar. 29, 2012 | The fundraising drive to save St. Rose Hospital from financial ruin has already brokered most of estimated $18 million the facility needs to stay in operation for the next six months, said the director of Alameda… Read More ›
County Official Says San Leandro Hospital Can Be Saved, But In What Form?
SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALMar. 27, 2012 | Just as arrangements are being made to prop the struggling St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, the director of county health care services says San Leandro Hospital can be rescued in some form regardless of… Read More ›
Quirk’s Good Fortune With County Healthcare’s Revolving Door Of Solutions
ASSEMBLY 20Mar. 22, 2012 | In an interview earlier ths month, Hayward Councilman Bill Quirk, a candidate for the 20th Assembly District, playfully questioned an article last year in The Citizen stating his brief foray into the waters of San… Read More ›
Bay Citizen Report On Uninsured Mischaracterizes Situation At Eden Township
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 ›
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 ›
Hospital Ad-Hoc Committee Approved WIth Less Than Full Council Support
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALFeb. 22, 2012 | The San Leandro City Council is preparing to take a more pro-active approach in finding alternatives for saving its community hospital. The Council approved the formation of the three-person Ad-Hoc committee to explore San… Read More ›
AG Issues Support With State High Court For Healthcare District, San Leandro Hospital
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALFeb. 17, 2012 | California State Attorney General Kamala Harris’ office filed an amicus brief Thursday with the State Supreme Court urging the high court to accept the Eden Township Healthcare District’s petition to continue its legal challenge involving… Read More ›
With San Leandro Hospital In The Balance, Labor Rep Asks For Seat At Negotiating Table
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALSAN LEANDRO | Feb. 10, 2012 | A representative for nurses at San Leandro Hospital urged the Eden Township Healthcare District Wednesday night to include the union in negotiations between them and Sutter Health over the future… Read More ›
Hat In Hand, St. Rose Tries To Woo District Residents For Potential Merger
SAN LEANDRO | Feb. 10, 2012 | Although the Eden Township Healthcare District’s special public meeting was held in San Leandro last Wednesday, the real impetus for the gathering was to describe the District’s efforts to extend a lifeline to… Read More ›
It’s Now Or Never For San Leandro Hospital
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALEDITORIALFeb. 9, 2012 | Sutter Health is operating in the shadows again. When San Leandro Councilman Michael Gregory inadvertently used the word “settlement” during last Monday’s city council while updating the situation with San Leandro Hospital and its imminent… Read More ›
San Leandro Hospital Settlement Is Near
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALFeb. 8, 2012 | A settlement in the dispute between the Eden Township Healthcare District and Sutter Health over title to San Leandro Hospital may soon be announced, according to sources familiar with details of their negotiations. During… Read More ›
Alameda County May Use $325,000 To Fund Fixer For St. Rose’s Woes
Feb. 8, 2012 | The Alameda County Board of Supervisors may soon approve the hiring of a “Chief Turnaround Officer” to help facilitate recommended changes at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward at a salary of $325,000, according to staff reports.The board pushed forward the… Read More ›
Healthcare District Takes San Leandro Hospital Case To State Supreme Court
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALJan. 31, 2012 | The Eden Township Healthcare District waited until the last moment before formally petitioning the State Supreme Court Monday to settle its on-going legal fight with Sutter Health over ownership of San Leandro Hospital. At odds is… Read More ›
St. Rose Asks Eden Township To Lower Interest Rate On $3 Million Loan
Jan. 17, 2012 | St. Rose Hospital’s financial woes are continuing. The crippled Hayward hospital is asking this week for more favorable terms on its recent $3 million loan from the Eden Township Healthcare District. Without it, it may not be… Read More ›
Corbett’s Health Care District Bill Heads To Health Committee
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL Sen. Ellen Corbett Jan. 12, 2012 | A potential legislative road block to Sutter Health’s bid to take control over San Leandro Hospital passed a state Senate committee and raising the possibility of district voters deciding the fate of the facility…. Read More ›
Why San Leandro Hospital Should Be The Next Occupy Battleground
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALDec. 27, 2011 | The fight to keep San Leandro Hospital was about the 99 percent versus the obscenely rich way before the notion became an unbelievably effective and accurate description of the financial unfairness raging in this… Read More ›
Appellate Court Sides With Sutter Over Ownership Of San Leandro Hospital
BREAKING Dec. 21, 2011 | The end of San Leandro Hospital as a general acute care hospital with emergency room services may be near. A state appellate court ruled Wednesday in favor of Sutter Health’s right to secure title to… Read More ›
Eden Township Healthcare District Failed To Renew Non-Profit Tax Exemption
ROUNDUP: SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALHAYWARD | Dec. 19, 2011 | Add this to the list of problems at the Eden Township Healthcare District. The governing body which oversees San Leandro Hospital lost a portion of its non-profit tax exempt status… Read More ›
