San Leandro Hospital and Secret Sutter Deals

Dave Kears is still the Man. He helped Sutter Healthcare divest of one of their few community hospitals that actually serve the poor and he signed the medical center up for more loans and a commercial real estate deal. ACMC has to move rehabilitation services out of the hills and into the hood. Sutter the mega-monster healthcare monopolist gets to close a hospital with the emergency room in a working class neighborhood in San Leandro, the medical center gets more debt and rehab in the hood and the county gets a priceless piece of real estate at Fairmont.

Rumors of Dave Kears retirement were evidently premature, his dream of the medical center as an Emergency Room and patient transfer station may yet be realized.

Read it and weep

http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_12346531

Fairmont Rehabilitation Moving

This is big news! This article doesn't detail any differences in the costs of running a facility at San Leandro Hospital vs. Fairmont but it looks likes a big move may be coming fast.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_12334794

Fairmont Skilled Nursing

Here's the Oakland Tribune piece on ACMC skilled nursing facility at Fairmont. I think this reporter, Chris Metinko, does good healthcare reporting.