Sutter plans to stop operating San Leandro Hospital – September 30th

The facility will be used as a rehabilitation and urgent care center, so one more inpatient and ER Room is lost in California. I had mentioned the hospital in the May update of Desperate Hospitals as the district stated there were not enough funds to keep things going here. BD

Now, nearly 50 years later, operator Sutter Health plans to close San Leandro Hospital as a full-service facility Sept. 30.

The closure, in favor of turning the hospital over to Alameda County for rehabilitation and urgent-care centers, temporarily will leave the city of 80,000 without inpatient hospital and emergency room services.

Kaiser Hospital is going through the licensing and planning process to build a 262-bed hospital — a replacement

to operate San Leandro Hospital only until Sept. 30, and will file a formal notice to that effect within 30 days.

Sutter also notified the Eden Township Healthcare District over the weekend that it plans to sign over its purchase option for the district-owned hospital at East 14th Street and 138th Avenue to Alameda County. On Friday, Sutter contacted the California Nurses Association to ask for talks in advance of the hospital closure. The 122-bed hospital now provides medical-surgical services and operates an emergency room in which an average of 25,000 to 27,000 patients are seen each year.