SF Bay Hospital News
Spring 2010
Two Stanford hospitals face further delays. May 14, 2010
Delays continue to hound $3 billion in hospital expansion and seismic safety projects at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto. The two Stanford hospitals are unlikely to finish their huge construction projects until 2016 at the earliest, and likely will not be ready for prime time until 2017 - three years later than Stanford was hoping for as recently as early last year.
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UC San Francisco cuts costs again on big hospital project. April 30, 2010
UC San Francisco hopes to shave $160 million in interest charges from the price tag to build and finance its nearly $1.6 billion Mission Bay women’s, children’s and cancer hospital by taking advantage of subsidized rates under the federal stimulus package’s Build America bonds.
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Children’s Oakland to lay off 17 staffers, slash budget by $10 million. April 21, 2010
Children’s Hospital Oakland said it’s implementing plans announced late last month to cut expenditures, by laying off 17 staffers and making other moves to cut a projected $26 million loss this year to $16 million.
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St. Mary’s new cancer center under way. April 2, 2010
St. Mary’s Medical Center, part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, is set to celebrate the groundbreaking of its $22.75 million Cancer Center.
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Children’s Hospital Oakland to restructure, cut jobs, “reorganize” outpatient services. March 25, 2010
Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland said Thursday it must restructure its outpatient services, develop new business opportunities, and negotiate higher private insurance and government reimbursements to cover patient care costs.
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St. Mary’s Medical Center to start $22.75M cancer center project. March 23, 2010
St. Mary’s Medical Center, part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, said it will celebrate the groundbreaking of a $22.75 million Cancer Center. Officials expect it to treat about 400 infusion and 200 radiation therapy patients annually.
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California Institute nabs $500K grant from Moore Foundation for RN training. March 22, 2010
The Berkeley-based California Institute for Nursing & Health Care has nabbed a $500,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, to help tackle the difficulties facing new nursing school graduates who can’t find jobs due to the troubled local economy.
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Hunt Construction wins big Sequoia Hospital rebuild contract. March 2, 2010
Catholic Healthcare West has awarded Hunt Construction Group the contract for its $240 million Sequoia Hospital rebuild, which will add a 104-bed, 148,000-square-foot pavilion to the current campus in Redwood City. CHW said the enhanced campus will have 167 beds and a number of appealing features, including larger, private rooms; new consult rooms; a “healing environment,” featuring soothing interior colors; and a number of IT advances.
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Walnut Creek developing into a health-care hub. February 12, 2010
Long home to John Muir Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente’s Walnut Creek Medical Center, Walnut Creek’s health care footprint is growing. John Muir Health is investing a projected $621 million to expand and upgrade its Walnut Creek hospital, and Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland last year opened an outpatient surgery/diagnostic imaging and specialty care. The Muir project will add about 85 beds to the current 330, create 230 new private rooms, and expand ER, neonatal intensive care and surgical capacity. The new Children’s Hospital outpost, which opened in mid-August, is staffed by 20 doctors, 11 nurses and other medical staff, and three other employees.
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