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Article: San Leandro Hospital may be sold
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 29, 2008
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SAN LEANDRO -- San Leandro Hospital's days as a community-owned
facility -- providing short-term patient care, surgeries and an
emergency room -- may be coming to an end.
A scenario is unfolding in which Sutter Health affiliate Eden
Medical Center of Castro Valley may buy the 122-bed San Leandro
Hospital for little or no cash over the next two years.
Eden could leave San Leandro Hospital as a full-service hospital,
scale back its operations or convert the East 14th Street complex
for other medical programs, such as psychiatric or rehabilitation
services.
"The citizens of San Leandro use that hospital, and the ER is
very busy," said anesthesiologist Frank Rico, a director of the Eden
Township ...