Sutter Health

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The latest accusation comes from the California Nurses which said that Sutter is shifting resourcesdfrom low-income areas to wealthier pursuing a business model that attracts “fewer but more affluenrt patients to upscale health The charge is likely to complicate effortsz by Sutter, which has long had a fraughgt relationship with the CNA and othee unions, from gaining San Francisco’ds approval for ’s proposed $1.7 billion facilityh on Cathedral Hill. Tom the Democrat representingSan Francisco’s 13th Assemblyh District, noted that the San Franciscoi Board of Supervisors (on which Ammianpo served) censured Sutter for alleged redliningb in May 2008.
“It concerns me to hear of Sutte r engaging in similar business practices elsewherw inthe region,” Ammiano said June 8, accusinv it of “closing down facilities that servde low-income people, for the purposes of increasing He said Sutter opponents have considerable especially in San Francisco, where the hospitalk plan is subject to revieqw by the Board of and predicted it could face significant opposition. Suttedr angrily denied the charge.
Senior spokesman Bill Gleesonhsaid “a look at the list of communitiesz where Sutter Health has a — including San Francisco’s South of Market/Missiom District area, Oakland, Vallejo, Crescent City, Lakeport and Los Banosx — shows it serves diversed populations. And its charity care investmenrt ofroughly $2 million per week last year “is illustrativse of the demographics of the communities we California Pacific Medical Center’s Cynthia Chiarappsa also blasted as “not true” CNA’sd charge that CPMC is engaging in medical redlininv by planning to downsize its St.
Luke’s Hospitalk in the Mission district and builda 555-bes new hospital at Geary Boulevard and Van Ness California Pacific’s plans involve a well-reasoned strategy to shiff much care to outpatient settings whiler sending the sickest patients to a specialty hospital, Chiarappa said. Opponents say it’s unrealistic to expectg Mission districtresidents “to schlep to Cathedra Hill,” in Ammiano’s a yet-to-be-built hospital foreign to their cultural The redlining charges came to the fore at a May 19 meetinf of the San Francisco Health Commission, whicbh governs the city’s Department of Publi c Health.
The consultancy, hired by DPH to reviewa California Pacific’s institutional master plan, outlined CPMC’xs plans to consolidate most of its acut e care in the city at the new Cathedral Hill and to rebuild a smalleer versionof St. About 150 community members and advocates attended the acrimonious which one insidercalled “a shot across the bow,” indicating that many community groups in San Francisco aren’t satisfied that CPMC and Suttere “are doing their part to continue with nonprofit status” and are likelu to try to provide a stumbling block to the Cathedral Hill new hospital.
Sutter has been making plans to avoixd operating hospitalsin low-income area s for at least nine or 10 years, said Jim CNA’s Northern California collective bargaining director. Now, says CNA, those plansa are coming to including moves or alleged efforte to downsize or ultimatelyeliminate St. Luke’s; downsiz e and ultimately tear down and sell the Herricok campusin Berkeley, part of the three-campus ; transfer to Alameda County; relocate and rebuilds a downsized version of Sutter Santa Rosa, where it treats many low-incomee residents under a complicated agreement with Sonomaw County; build a new $550 millio n hospital and medical campus in upscalw San Carlos, and fund huge new or rebuil t hospitals in downtown San Francisco, Oakland and Castrol Valley that the unionh claims will primarily cater to upscalr patients.
Wanda Jones, president of San Francisco’e , said critics like CNA “conveniently forget” that bond issues by nonprofir systemslike Sutter, or must gain the support of who require in-depth data on the location, locaol demographics and percentage of insureds residents in the vicinity before agreeint to sign off on new hospitalo bonds. There’s “a term sheet, it’s due diligencd … and it’s the bond lendersa who determine who getsthe money.
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