Comments on: Sound off on San Leandro Hospital

By: qodrn

qodrn — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:19:33 +0000

Eden township was crazy for entering into this agreement with Sutter that let them bail out of the hospital, in turn for building the new Eden hospital.
This is a real mess. The new hospital will be smaller than the old, and they are closing San Leandro hospital. Hospitals just don’t make money any more. They are going the way of the car industry.

By: centerfielddj

centerfielddj — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:49:30 +0000

The Eden Township Healthcare District Board of Directors is entering into mediation with Sutter Health on the future of San Leandro Hospital. Sutter violated the terms of a contractual agreement which obligated them to build rooms appropriate for Rehabilitation patients on the 4th floor of SLH, a former Acute Care Medical nursing floor Sutter closed a few years ago. Hopefully this can prevent Sutter’s quick takeover of the hospital, because Sutter’s wish to have the hospital’s ER and other vital services closed would kill many thousands of County citizens over the next generation.

The Daily Review reported over 1,300 patients seen in SLH’s ER in 2008 were seen for critical conditions. The 5 to 20 extra minutes of transport time needed to take those patients to the next closest ER not closed to ambulances due to overflow will kill a significant portion of those people, day by day and year by year.

Whomever eventually takes over operation of the building, if they propose to close SLH’s 24-hour, full service ER, they must be made to answer the question “How many people will die as a result of this closure?”. Alameda County Medical Center has proposed closing the ER and running a limited-hour Urgent Care unit at the hospital; this would be inadequate not just for the critically ill patients, but approximately 10,000 other patients per year too ill for this proposed unit.

By: Kris Noceda

Kris Noceda — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:02:03 +0000

More than 300 folks attended, according to sources I interviewed for a recap story I’m turning in shortly. Check insidebayarea.com or twitter.com/Noceda_Reports for the link

By: qodrn

qodrn — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:19:45 +0000

Did anyone show up to the meeting? You think the 180 employees would….I have two sisters who will be affected by this closing…the situation seems to change daily.

By: qodrn

qodrn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:18:49 +0000

Is this place still open? I think the county should get out of the medical business. Too expensive. Plus they pick up all the patients no one else will, thus increasing their costs.