With its new hospital already behind schedule, Good Samaritan has warned of potential impacts to care if San Jose delays its approval.
Good Samaritan Hospital, showing a new hospital and a new medical office building planned for 2425 Samaritan Drive in southwest San Jose, concept. , a newly released construction timeline revealed that the facility may not open in time to replace the current hospital — which will no longer meet the state’s seismic requirements in 2030 — potentially placing greater strain on local health services.
California law requires all older hospitals that offer acute beds, those provided to patients who need 24-hour medical care, to meet seismic requirements by the end of this decade. Good Samaritan’s representatives warned that the state could revoke its facility’s license by that date without retrofitting or replacing the current hospital.
Last month, the city’s planning commission recommended that the City Council reject the hospital’s plan as several commissioners blasted HCA over its past business practices, which they said put “ “Our general plan holds the city responsible for ensuring our health care resources are planned with equity in mind and to make sure that everyone has access to services,” Ortiz said. “Us, as councilmembers, hold that responsibility.”
“I’m not just in favor of preserving, protecting and expanding medical services,” Davis said. “I think you need to restore medical services, particularly the very dire mental health needs that we have in this county and this community. I think it’s atrocious that you closed your psychiatric facilities, and you have a new opportunity.”
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