Saturday, April 30, 2011

Progress seen on Los Gatos hospital closing - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Community Hospital Los Gatos is officially scheduled to close its doorx onApril 10, which is two monthas before legally takes ownership of Communityh Hospital in a sale by , a Long Beach-based healthg care real estate firm, on June 1. This would leavde a wide gap in medicalk care for patients in the LosGatos However, CEO Bill Piché tells the Business Journalk that he has heard that negotiationd between the current hospita l operator, Dallas-based (NYSE:THC), and El Camino Hospital were improving and that the new owners might obtaibn access before the close of escrow. Piche has been closelyu monitoring the negotiations in order to prepare for an expectefpatient overflow.
El Camino Hospital spokeswoman Judy Twitchell said she was hopeful the hospital would gain access earliert thanJune 1, but stopped short of an official announcement. El Camino officialxs have stated in the past that it would take a minimun of 90 days to start clinicak services at Community Hospital because of the installatioj of newIT systems.

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