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Eden Health Board To Consider Replacement Director As Fight To Save San Leandro Hospital Intensifies: Tuesday

Main Category: Nursing / Midwifery

Article Date: 27 Oct 2009

Board Appointee Must Commit to Save San Leandro Hospital, Say Local Nurses, as They Encourage Public to Make Community Heard

What

Patients, seniors, nurses, and doctors from San Leandro and across the East Bay will gather at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Eden Township Healthcare District Board this Tuesday, where the board will consider the replacement for its open position.

Why

"Sutter Health has made clear its intention to close San Leandro Hospital so its new Castro Valley facility won't face competition. Nurses from San Leandro are asking the public to attend, and to share their opinion that the public health of the East Bay demands a full-service, acute-care hospital with an emergency room in San Leandro. What sense does it make to close an emergency room in the midst of a swine flu pandemic? Nurses strongly feel that no director should be chosen to this board who is not committed to guaranteeing San Leandro patients an acute-care facility in their city-and that no director should be chosen who has a financial relationship with Sutter or a history of showing favoritism towards the chain," said Carol Barazi, a 22-year RN in the hospital's operating room.

When

Tuesday, October 27, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Where

Hayward Area Rec & Park District Office Board Room, 1099 "E" St., Hayward, CA

Source
California Nurses Association

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