Daly City to adopt a resolution Monday (8/11/14), hoping to keep acute care hospital services and contracts the same upon the sale of Seton Medical Center.
The Daily Journal (San Mateo), Michelle Durand, 8/8/14. "City may seek help with Seton: Daly City mayor wants attorney general to order medical center for sale to remain as is."
.... "Mayor David Canepa will ask the council Monday night to adopt a
resolution asking Harris to consider Seton’s history and service when
reviewing the potential sale of the Daughters of Charity Health System,
or DCHS, of which the Daly City hospital belongs.“Sometimes when these transactions happen, it might be too late
to act. We want to get out in front and be preemptive,” Canepa said. .... DCHS spokeswoman Elizabeth Nikels did not return an inquiry for comment on the sale’s status but Canepa said he has heard the pool has been winnowed down from 100 to approximately five and a deal is expected by the end of this month.
.... The resolution calls on Harris to require Seton remain operating
as an acute care hospital with the same staff and agreements while
transitioning to the new provider. State law requires the attorney general to review and approve any
sale or transfer of a health care facility owned or operated by a
nonprofit corporation. The review process includes public meetings and
the decision often requires the continuation of existing levels of
charity care and operation of emergency rooms and services to avoid
impacts on local health care, according to the Office of the Attorney
General’s website." Read article.
Reference - Seton Medical Center, Member of Daughters of Charity Health System. Note the photograph and text are from this Seton website. Related - HMC Health Care News, Seton and other hospitals in CA need to comply with the State seismic requirements by 2020. The Seton retrofit and rebuild architectural concept drawings included in this article.
Seton
Medical Center is taking steps to plan and design a $360 million
seismic rebuild of their Daly City, Calif., hospital. Owned by the
Daughters of Charity Health System, the new 192-bed inpatient tower will
open by January 1, 2020, thereby complying with state seismic
requirements. - See more at:
http://blog.hmcarchitects.com/healthcare/client-profile-seton-medical-center/#sthash.HhxA7nxX.dpuf
Seton
Medical Center is taking steps to plan and design a $360 million
seismic rebuild of their Daly City, Calif., hospital. Owned by the
Daughters of Charity Health System, the new 192-bed inpatient tower will
open by January 1, 2020, thereby complying with state seismic
requirements. - See more at:
http://blog.hmcarchitects.com/healthcare/client-profile-seton-medical-center/#sthash.HhxA7nxX.dpuf
Seton
Medical Center is taking steps to plan and design a $360 million
seismic rebuild of their Daly City, Calif., hospital. Owned by the
Daughters of Charity Health System, the new 192-bed inpatient tower will
open by January 1, 2020, thereby complying with state seismic
requirements. - See more at:
http://blog.hmcarchitects.com/healthcare/client-profile-seton-medical-center/#sthash.HhxA7nxX.dpuf
27 comments:
At least Canepa is doing something.
Preserving a hospital in this area is a noble thing, a hospital that's bleeding because people can't pay their medical bills. Check out this article from last December. Mr. Canepa said he DESERVED lifetime benefits, but DIDNT KNOW HE HAD THEM until informed by the reporter. Rolling my eyes!
http://www.mercurynews.com/salary-survey/ci_24798591/former-part-time-pols-bay-area-reap-medical
RE: "The resolution calls on Harris to require Seton remain operating as an acute care hospital with the same staff and agreements while transitioning to the new provider" What about after the transition? Also, FYI doctor's whose offices are located in the adjacent office buildings are already looking for other locations as they expect their rents to increase drastically.
1240 Spending the taxpayer's money produces such a high it's no wonder the politicians can't keep track of what they bought!
After the transition? It'll be healthcare business as usual with the new corporate owner.
maybe its cause of Obama care?
301 Is there anything that isn't? Pacifica City Council, stop running scenarios. You've got your out.
Let's hope Seton bailout does not use all Measure A money.$19,000,000 subsidy already spent.It can become a money pit.
Wy are taxpayers bailing out a private for profit institution?
This doesn't sound like a bailout. It's one hospital management company buying it from another hospital management company.
Crikey! This is no bailout and the Measure A money was voter approved in 2012 as part of a 10-year sales tax increase to offset cuts in state funds to many county programs and services. The DCHS hospitals are for sale and Canepa is worried about changes under new ownership. The 19 million goes towards seismic retrofitting which will be required no matter who operates the hospital.
BTW Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS)which operates Seton is non-profit. Its Catholic mission is to provide hospital and health care services to the sick and indigent poor regardless of ability to pay. In doing this they provide valuable services to communities and counties in which they operate. It's a partnership. They have 6 hospitals in CA including Seton and Coastside. It seems that their two LA-area hospitals are true safety-net facilities and have hemorrhaged money for years. The recession and years of changes in healthcare have made the problems worse. Rather than see their hospitals close, leaving the poor unserved, DCHCS has been in talks for several years with potential buyers, some with ideals similar to their own, and, unfortunately, some not at all similar. Canepa and the unions are concerned that a more profit-oriented operator will cut costs which will adversely impact employees and particularly the community. They have good reason to worry.
It isn't a County Run Hospital like General in San Mateo, so why is tax payer money funding a private hospital company?
My understanding of the time line is the county agreed to do the retrofit because Seton takes care of so many people who can not pay.
The thinking being that it would be cheaper then building a county hospital for those unable to pay.
The new twist is that the hospital(Seton) along with all the others owned by the Sisters are now up for sale and the county is trying to get the same deal out of the new owners. Luckily the county has not started the retrofit yet so it still has some leverage.
Canepa gets free healthcare for life? He is trying to jump over the hill and get on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors.
Ask him if he really cares about Daly City?
106, Seton is listed as one of the most expensive hospitals in the Bay Area. Yes, hospitals are rated. Most of their patients pay and they pay heaps. So don't give me that Daughters of Charity Catholic crap. Seton regularly turns away patients without insurance to the county. They aggressively take people to collections who can't pay.
Thats all no problem as long as they are not asking for county measure A money.
When I was a kid my doctor made house calls and called you personally asking how you felt.
Now if you don't have insurance you get kicked out the door and placed in collections.
Seton has been doing the work of a county hospital for the northern end of SMC for years. Why shouldn't they receive public funds? Seton and other Catholic-based hospitals aren't run off the collection basket from Sunday mass. Patients with the ability to pay subsidize those who can't and
every available state and federal subsidy is also pursued. Seton has attracted private-pay patients for 5 decades because it is a very good hospital. None of this conflicts with the Daughters of Charity mission to provide hospital care to the poor and sick. In fact, it enabled them to do the job. Corporate America is on no such mission. If Seton is bought by a for-profit company, the poor and sick in our area are the ones who will suffer most. Who do you think will be paying the bills? The county has some leverage with those Measure A funds but it may not be enough. Catholic healthcare
is dealing with mergers, buy-outs and closed hospitals in this new economy all over the country.
The poor are always with us. City and County executives know exactly what's at stake here.
759 Worked in healthcare for decades and if Seton is turning away anyone due to their inability to pay, it's a secret privy to you alone.
Sounds like SMC will be building a new county hospital for this end of the county. Too bad northern Pacifica doesn't have a large enough parcel of land left to even be considered.
I like that! Host the county hospital here IN THE QUARRY!. to pay for it, the County is going to sock it to you on your property tax bill with a bond for everyone, but it's all good!
Hospital in the quarry. It would have the biggest department to handle all the 5150 people in Pacifica.
122 Hospital in the quarry? Too far south on highway one and hard to get to. How about a nice, big jail? Book 'em Danno! When the county gets Pacifica, they'll use it for a dumping ground for all the not so desirable but essential services. Wasn't that the only reason to incorporate all these unconnected shanty-towns back in the '50s? We were about to become a garbage dump...voila! A city is born.
@204 Hey, our mayor is trained and ready.
Peter Loeb will have to sign off on building anything in the quarry, being he runs the town.
Loeb's in charge? I'm sure I read right here that he wasn't.
759-You are absolutely right.They milked private insurance to max and then to Medi-Cal or collections.
926 welcome to america.
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