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Article: Efforts to save San Leandro Hospital may prove futile
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 17, 2009
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SAN LEANDRO -- No one should be surprised that San Leandro
Hospital's emergency, medical, surgical and intensive care services
may close this year.
After all, ending general acute care there was part of a highly
publicized November 2007 pact between Sutter Health -- the giant not-
for-profit network of Northern California hospitals and medical
facilities -- and the Eden Township Healthcare District. The
district owns the hospital.
And, in November, a consultant told district directors that the
district is unlikely to have the multimillion-dollar income needed
to run San Leandro Hospital when Sutter's hospital lease is up in
2010.
But community interest has been virtually nil until the past ...