Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan has threatened dissolution of the health district for differing reasons since 2012. EDEN HEALTH DISTRICTThere is not a need for the embattled Eden Health District to be dismantled and its assets distributed to various health… Read More ›
EDEN HEALTH DISTRICT | Legislation that could be the first nail in the Eden Health District’s coffin was signed last week by Gov. Jerry Brown. The new law, authored by East Bay Assemblymember Rob Bonta, requires the struggling Eden Health… Read More ›
“I am quite outraged at what Eden does and how theydo it,” said San Leandro Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter. Cutter also questions Eden Township CEO’s pay SAN LEANDRO CITY COUNCIL | San Leandro Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter excoriated the local… Read More ›
Court will allow Eden Township Healthcare District to pay $19.7 million in damages to Sutter Health over the next 10 years rather than all at once. Chan wants Eden Township to provide hospital with additional financial help SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL… Read More ›
Eden Township Healthcare District Board of Directors at a meeting last year. ETHD can pay $17m damages now; dissolveSAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | An old wound is being reopened in the years-long fight to keep San Leandro Hospital in operation. Alameda… Read More ›
Dr. Harry Dvorsky EDEN TOWNSHIP HEALTHCARE DISTRICT | Dr. Harry Dvorsky, a former chief of staff at Castro Valley’s Eden Hospital and elected member of the Eden Township Healthcare District Board of Directors, died Feb.10. He was 90. The kind thoracic… Read More ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL | A commitment by the Eden Township Healthcare District to help subsidize the short-term operations of San Leandro Hospital was unanimously approved this week even as the facility’s future remains in serious doubt following the transfer… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
SAVE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITALDec. 12, 2011 | The Eden Township Healthcare District notified financially-strapped St. Rose Hospital last week it was in default of a $2.35 million loan the elected body provided the Hayward private hospital last fall. The Dec. 6 letter… Read More ›
ANALYSIS Like in Washington, the people running San Leandro failed to listened to their constituents with tangible action. It took the City of San Leandro three years to make a move on the issue with this week’s filing of an amicus brief… Read More ›
WITHOUT ACMC, SUTTER WOULD HAVE NO OPERATOR FOR FACILITY AS ACUTE REHAB CENTERBy Steven Tavaressteven.tavares@eastbaycitizen.comFollow @eastbaycitizen on twitter OAKLAND – The controversial lease many supporters of saving San Leandro Hospital believe was negotiated in secret between Sutter Health and the… Read More ›
DESPITE PAST OBJECTIONS, SUTTER HAS REASONS TO DEALBy Steven Tavares The dedicated folks who have successfully kept San Leandro Hospital open for over two years despite pressure from Sutter Health and others to close the facility have never been particularly interested… Read More ›
CHABOT’S KINNAMON AND DISTRICT’S ROGERS ARE DOING THE RIGHT THINGBy Steven Tavares At first glance, there is little commonality between San Leandro Hospital and Hayward’s proposed gas-fired, 600-megawatt Russell City Energy Center other than the causal effect of pollution from… Read More ›
EXCLUSIVEPRESSURE BUILDING ON BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO RESCIND OFFER FOR ACUTE REHAB AT SLHBy Steven Tavares St. Rose Hospital is an independent163-bed community facility in Hayward. The president of Hayward’s St. Rose Hospital is in preliminary talks with the Eden Township… Read More ›
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 ›
YEAR-IN-REVIEW / OCTOBER-DECEMBER Stephen Cassidy became the first person to unseat an incumbent mayor in San Leandro history. LOCKYER WINS BIG; S.L. HIRES FIRST FEMALE POLICE CHIEF; TOWNSHIP LOSES COUNTERSUIT OCTOBERNadia Lockyer easily crosses the $1 million mark in campaign… Read More ›
EXCLUSIVE The Eden Township Healthcare District filed a writ of mandate request Dec. 2 with the California Court of Appeals in San Francisco EDEN CEO BISCHALANEY GAMED NEGOTIATIONS FOR SUTTER; WORKED IN CAHOOTS WITH FORMER DISTRICT COUNSELBy Steven Tavares Eden Medical Center… Read More ›
HEALTHCARE DISTRICT’S COURT APPEAL EXTENDS THE LIFE OF SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL…FOR NOW Nurses protest the possible closing of San Leandro Hospital in front of the Alameda County Administration Building in Oakland. By Steven Tavares When Eden Township Healthcare District Chair Carole Rogers… Read More ›
SANTOS, GREGORY COULD HAVE BEEN ON THE HOOK FOR HOSPITAL IF DISTRICT HAD NOT ACTEDBy Steven Tavares A year ago, San Leandro’s economic outlook was the basically the same as today. More businesses were leaving than coming and the city’s financial… Read More ›
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 ›
FACILITY REMAINS SAFE FOR BETWEEN 6-24 MONTHS; EDEN GUARANTEED TO BE REBUILT By Steven Tavares The Eden Township Healthcare District and Sutter Health have called a ceasefire for the time being. The District announced Wednesday evening the sides have agreed… Read More ›
SUTTER SAYS IT USES TRANSFERS TO HELP ITS STRUGGLING HOSPITALS WHILE SAN LEANDRO HOSPITAL LOSES MONEYBy Steven Tavares Since 2004, Sutter Health has diverted a net amount of over $50 million in equity transfers from Eden Medical Center in Castro… Read More ›
Eden District Director Calls Possible Sutter Proposal A ‘Starting Point” By Steven TavaresVery little news has trickled out the past month with the Eden Township Healthcare District ‘s battle with Sutter Health over the fate of San Leandro Hospital. The reason… Read More ›
Eden Township Director can’t recall why he asked for re-vote on pivotal vote to file lawsuit against Sutter By Steven Tavares When lawyers for Sutter Health filed their highly-anticipated response to the Eden Township Healthcare District’s March countersuit, more than… Read More ›
