Hospital Roundup: New San Diego Ronald McDonald House; Hayward Hospital To Be Demolished
News outlets report on hospital and medical center news from around the state.
KPBS:
New Ronald McDonald House Offers Relief For More Families With A Sick Child
For more than 25 years, right across the street from Rady Children’s Hospital, a sick child's parents and other family members have been able to stay at the Ronald McDonald House. Due to increased demand from families in a medical crisis, a second Ronald McDonald House has opened just a short walk away. (Goldberg, 8/18)
East Bay Times:
Kaiser Permanente To Demolish Old Hospital In South Hayward
Nearly three years after it was shuttered and replaced by a new facility in San Leandro, the old Kaiser Permanente hospital in South Hayward and the pedestrian bridge over Tennyson Road will be coming down. Kaiser, which still owns the site, has submitted building demolition plans to Hayward leaders and is working on ways to reduce the project’s impacts to the area. “The largest buildings of the former medical center are almost 60 years old and would need extensive retrofitting and remodeling for any new use,” said Mark J. Tortorich, vice president of Kaiser Permanente’s facility services in Northern California. (Moriki, 8/17)
Sacramento Bee:
Sutter Shifting Medi-Cal Enrollees To Community Health Centers
In Sacramento and Placer counties, roughly 10,000 adult Medi-Cal enrollees with Anthem Blue Cross are learning this summer that Sutter’s primary-care doctors will no longer see them. Instead, those patients are being shifted to primary-care doctors at community health centers such as Sacramento’s WellSpace Health or Auburn’s Chapa-De Indian Health, said Dr. Ken Ashley, the medical director for primary care at Sutter Medical Group. He said the change in providers will allow the patients to access more services. (Anderson, 8/17)