Grand jurors criticized the district — which no longer owns and operates a hospital or other direct care assets to deliver acute health care solutions — for spending more time managing real estate holdings than focusing on its core mission to provide medical services.
A special district charged with administering public health care services in Hayward and San Leandro can add another voice to a growing number of critics calling for it to change its ways or dissolve. Eden Health District should be dismantled because it “no longer owns and operates a district hospital or other direct care assets to deliver acute health care solutions,” a 12-page Alameda County civil grand jury report has concluded. The district at one time owned Eden Hospital, but sold it to Sutter Health because it could not afford state-required seismic upgrades. (Moriki, 7/14)
A building boom behind the walls of Corcoran state prison is putting the state on the right side of a federal receiver and boosting the local economy. At the prison, which holds about 3,570 inmates, work has begun on new health clinics to comply with a 2002 settlement in federal court requiring a higher level of medical care for inmates at all state prisons. (Griswold, 7/14)
[Source:- California Healthline]
