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Currently browsing tag: SB 1953One Year and CountingWednesday, July 28th, 2010 | No Comment Yet
Posted in Community, Construction, Eden Hospital, Eden Medical Center, SB 1953, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
by George Bischalaney
President & CEO, Eden Medical Center
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The first of this month marked one year since the celebratory groundbreaking for construction of the new hospital in Castro Valley. Passing this one-year milestone is worthy of a little reflection on the long journey to get here.
The concept of a new hospital first surfaced in the late 1990s, brought about by legislation created as a result of the Northridge earthquake that ...
Read more.. Alameda County Court Dismisses LawsuitFriday, July 16th, 2010 | No Comment Yet
Posted in CEQA, Construction, Eden Medical Center, News Room, Nurses, SB 1953, Seismic safety, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
by George Bischalaney, President & CEO, Eden Medical Center
Nearly a year after the California Nurses Association filed a challenge to prevent Sutter Health from rebuilding Eden Medical Center, the petition has been denied. The judgment by Alameda County Superior Court was entered on July 7, 2010, and the Order Denying the Petition is now on the court’s website case # RG09462329. You can also view a PDF version of the judge's order.
For all of us at Eden Medical Center, and ...
Read more.. Tracking California QuakesWednesday, March 24th, 2010 | No Comment Yet
Posted in Construction, Earthquake, Eden Medical Center, Eden Medical Foundation, Health Care Legislation, News Room, OSPHD, SB 1953, Seismic safety, State of California, Structural Design, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
Cassandra Clark, Project Communications Director
While California earthquake safety legislation is the driving force behind new hospital construction such as ours, earthquake safety doesn’t begin or end with new construction. For many years, Eden Medical Center has participated in the California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program (CSMIP) by placing seismic motion sensors in the building to gather vital information when an earthquake strikes.
Recently, the Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley project team reached agreement with the California Department of Conservation to place sensors ...
Read more.. Credit Crisis, Deteriorating Revenues Jeopardize Ability of Hospitals To Meet Seismic DeadlinesFriday, August 14th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Posted in Construction, Economic Crisis, Health Care Legislation, Medi-Cal, Medicare, SB 1953, Seismic safety, State of California, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
Economic Survey Shows 64% of Hospitals
Cannot Secure Funds for Seismic Compliance Mandate
The nation’s ongoing credit crisis and deteriorating revenues, caused in large part by governmental underfunding, is jeopardizing the ability of California’s hospitals to comply with state-mandated deadlines for seismic retrofitting, according to an updated economic impact report released today by the California Hospital Association (CHA).
The report, which is based on a survey of hospital chief financial officers (CFOs) conducted in April 2009, shows that 64 percent of hospitals report ...
Read more.. Union Lawsuit Threatens Future of New HospitalFriday, July 17th, 2009 | No Comment Yet
Posted in Alameda County, CEQA, Community, Construction, Eden Hospital, Eden Medical Center, Employees, Facility Planning & Design, George Bischalaney, Governmental approvals, Hospital CEO, News Room, Nurses, OSPHD, Patient Safety, Patients, Physicians, Project Management, SB 1953, State of California, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
Sutter Medical Center Faces Costly Delay, Loss of Construction Jobs as State Deadline Looms
The California Nurses Association (CNA) has filed a lawsuit that threatens the future of the new Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley now under construction.
“That the nurses union would sue to stop us from building our new hospital after a decade of planning is extremely frustrating to our employees, physicians, volunteers and patients who have worked so hard and so long for this,” said Eden Medical Center President ...
Read more.. Construction Begins on the New Hospital
For Immediate Release
CASTRO VALLEY, CA - July 1, 2009 - It's official-construction of the new Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley to replace Eden Medical Center has begun. At a groundbreaking ceremony today, Eden employees, physicians, volunteers, officials from Sutter Health, and local business and government agencies commemorated the start of a three-year project to replace the 55-year -hospital with a modern, seismically safe $320 million facility. This will be the first new medical center in Alameda County ...
Read more.. Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley Garners More Community SupportWednesday, April 15th, 2009 | No Comment Yet
Posted in Alameda County, California Environmental Quality Act, Castro Valley Municipal Advisory Council, Community, Community meetings, Construction, DEIR, Devenney Group, Eden Hospital, Eden Medical Center, Emergency and Trauma Center, Environmental Impact Report, Facility Planning & Design, FEIR, Governmental approvals, Land Use Planning, San Leandro Hospital, SB 1953, Schedule, Seismic safety, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley, Town Hall meetings
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By Jesús Armas, Government Affairs Liaison
As we discussed in previous posts, acute care hospitals must meet certain earthquake standards by 2013. Failure to meet these standards means that hospitals must cease operations. Recognizing the critical role Eden Medical Center plays in meeting the health care needs of the community, Sutter Health previously expressed its commitment to build a new, state-of-the-art hospital in Castro Valley. Yet, this important project can move forward only if it obtains certain ...
Read more.. Design Innovation for a Safe, Healing EnvironmentTuesday, October 21st, 2008 | No Comment Yet
Posted in Blog, CEO, Community, Design Innovation, Eden Medical Center, SB 1953, Seismic safety, Social Media Outreach Program, Straight Talk with the CEO, Sutter Health, Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
By Cassandra Phelps Clark, Project Communications Director
Hello. My name is Cassandra Phelps Clark, and I have been a part of the Eden Medical Center family for 19 years now. Most people in the community recognize me as the communications director and spokesperson for the hospital. But for the past year, I have had the incredible opportunity to work as part of the project team to build a new hospital in Castro Valley. After being part of the hospital’s ...
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