SF Bay Hospital News
Fall 2010
Health Care: Sutter breaks ground for hospital. September 27, 2010
Sutter Health celebrated the formal groundbreaking for its new, $284 million hospital in Santa Rosa that will replace the seismically unsafe Chanate facility. The new hospital will have 82 beds with the possibility of a 27-bed expansion.
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center of Santa Rosa is poised to open its new, five-story hospital wing. All told, the 146,400-square-foot project will increase licensed beds from 117 to 167, including 10 new ICU beds and 17 new beds in the ED.
At Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, construction is under way on a 72,000-square-foot expansion that will enhance patient care by increasing intensive care unit beds by 20 percent.
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Opening of $618M Mills-Peninsula hospital delayed. August 27, 2010
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center’s opening has been delayed at least a month. It is now uncertain exactly when the $618 million hospital in Burlingame will open.
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Kaiser, CPMC, others whack hundreds of Bay Area jobs. August 27, 2010
Bay Area hospitals and health care systems are cutting hundreds of jobs as the recession continues to keep patients away. Kaiser Permanente, California Pacific Medical Center and CPMC’s parent Sutter Health have taken the scalpel to employee rolls. Hundreds of Bay Area and Northern California hospital and affiliated jobs have been eliminated over the last year or so, many of them in the last few months.
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Chinese Hospital set to announce major philanthropic gift Thursday. July 7, 2010
Officials at San Francisco’s Chinese Hospital say the See Yip Chinese Merchants Association is giving it a building, which will be used to support the effort “to build a replacement facility for the iconic, but aging hospital. Plans call for rebuilding the hospital and including a new 22-bed skilled nursing unit and an imaging unit. The project is expected to take five years.
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