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RESOLUTION Supporting Efforts to Dissolve Eden Health District (proposal from the Mayor and the City Council urging San Leandro's State legislative delegation and the Alameda County Local Agency Formation Commission to support efforts that will lead to the dissolution of the Eden Health District)
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WHEREAS, San Leandro Hospital, a 93-bed facility with approximately 467 employees and 300 physicians and allied medical professionals, is the hometown public healthcare provider for San Leandro and central Alameda County; and
WHEREAS, the Hospital provides the San Leandro community with a wide range of important medical services including 24-hour emergency room access, critical care, and highly-skilled surgery and rehabilitation services; and
WHEREAS, in 2012 San Leandro Hospital experienced financial difficulties, so the City of San Leandro and Alameda County partnered together to take the unprecedented step of contributing $3 million from each of their respective general funds in order to support the sustained operations of the Hospital; and
WHEREAS, this financial commitment was made in tandem with a June 13, 2013 public commitment of financial assistance for San Leandro Hospital by the Eden Township Healthcare District (now known as Eden Health District, or EHD), a regional public agency that was formed by the voters in 1948 to provide direct healthcare services for the residents of San Leandro, Hayward, and unincorporated Alameda County; and
WHEREAS, since that time, the District divested itself of its ownership of any public hospitals and later became embroiled in costly litigation with Sutter Health regarding the transfer of San Leandro Hospital, resulting in a $20 million judgement against the District; and
WHEREAS, since that time, the District has failed to honor its June 13, 2013 public commitment to the community to raise funding for San Leandro Hospital; and
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