The corporation that owns Regional Medical Center said it plans to close the programs on Aug. 12.
SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County officials, doctors and community members are imploring the state to intervene in HCA Healthcare’s decision to close Regional Medical Center’s trauma center and other life saving programs later this year — a move they say will lead to more deaths and worse outcomes for patients.of its plans to close Regional Medical Center’s level two trauma center, its STEMI program that treats patients suffering cardiac arrest and downgrade its stroke program on Aug. 12.
County officials and top doctors in the county healthcare system accuse HCA of putting the bottom line above patients. HCA is the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country and reported $17.3 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2023 — up from $15.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022.“Make no mistake about it, this is about margins and profits, not about responsible healthcare,” Santa Clara Valley Healthcare System CEO Paul Lorenz said.
“The difference between surviving 15 minutes later with a heart attack intervention, with a trauma intervention, with a stroke intervention can be the difference between eating but not talking,” said Sarah Rudman, the deputy public health officer for the Santa Clara County Public Health Department. “Or talking but not being able to walk again, or being able to survive and make it home but never be an income-earner for your family again.
Gabriel Hernandez, the director of the Si Se Puede Collective, expressed his frustration to supervisors on Tuesday, telling them that the hospital had saved his brother’s life years ago when he was in a motorcycle accident.
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