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Article: Alameda County, Sutter Health in talks about San Leandro Hospital
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 28, 2009
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SAN LEANDRO -- Could San Leandro Hospital, with its many vacant
patient beds and bustling emergency room, become Alameda County's
next public hospital?
County officials are in private and ongoing talks with Sutter
Health, which operates San Leandro Hospital, to use the centrally
located medical complex as a backup to Oakland's Highland Hospital.
Half of the 27,000 patients who come yearly to San Leandro
Hospital's ER are Oakland residents, county Health Care Services
Agency Director Dave Kears said two weeks ago.
George Bischalaney, chief executive officer of Eden Medical
Center in Castro Valley, a Sutter Health affiliate, said the county
has made "an expression of interest in the San ...