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Article: Sides differ over San Leandro Hospital finances
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- June 4, 2009
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By Karen Holzmeister
SAN LEANDRO -- The color red is central to the back-and-forth
argument over whether San Leandro Hospital should remain open.
First there's the red ink of the hospital's financial problems.
Then there are critics' charges of "redlining" -- that the
hospital's operators may be trying to exclude some neighborhoods or
residents from receiving its services.
Doctors, medical labor unions and some community residents see
the color chart differently than does Eden Medical Center of Castro
Valley, the Sutter Health affiliate that has operated San Leandro
Hospital since 2004.
Despite new equipment purchases and other subsidies by Eden
Medical Center, San Leandro Hospital at East ...