On Wednesday, the Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project moved forward in its effort to buy Watsonville Community Hospital. The bankruptcy court gave the forming district until Aug. 31 to close on the sale, as it raises more money and solidifies plans. The hospital will now stay open, and applications are open as well for the health district’s to-be-appointed new directors, with a March 4 application deadline.
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Will Watsonville Community Hospital be saved?
A local coalition is cobbling together close to $39 million to buy the bankrupt Watsonville Community Hospital. A judge will review the funding at a sale hearing on Feb. 23 and decide if the coalition can move forward with the purchase. Even if the group makes the purchase, it will still need millions more to operate the financially failing hospital and a plan to keep it operating. Can it succeed?
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Santa Cruz County, health officials confident a district will save Watsonville Community Hospital
Watsonville Community Hospital is at risk of closing after years of financial struggle. Santa Cruz County and health care officials hope that a health care district, a government entity with a complicated and not always successful history in the state, will prevent that.
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Laird advances bill to create health care district, another step in Watsonville Community Hospital transition
Through Senate Bill 418, State Sen. John Laird is pushing the creation of a health care district which could be the eventual owner of the Watsonville Community Hospital, if the sale is successful.
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Watsonville Community Hospital reaches preliminary agreement for sale to avoid closure
Watsonville Community Hospital officials have reached a tentative agreement to sell the hospital’s operations to the Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Project — a recently formed nonprofit made up of local government bodies and healthcare nonprofits. If successful, the purchase would prevent the closure of the hospital.
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Trying to avoid countywide ‘shockwaves’: Local task force works at keeping Watsonville Hospital open
Watsonville Community Hospital CEO Steven Salyer announced to employees earlier this month that the hospital could have to close unless someone purchases it. A nonprofit coalition has been in discussions with the hospital to buy it, but one of its members says there are several steps complicating the purchase.
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‘Crying on the way into work’: Watsonville Hospital nurses denounce short-staffing conditions
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses took to the streets Friday to hold an informational picket over short-staffed working conditions. Nurses say Los Angeles-based managing firm Prospect Medical Holdings can do better to fix matters; the hospital says it is doing what it can to increase hiring.
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A well-earned week of gratitude for nurses, doctors: Watsonville Hospital set to dole out the appreciation
National Nurses week is May 6-12, and National Hospital Week is May 9-16, so WCH is combining them, along with celebrating a belated Doctor’s Day, which was March 30.
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Watsonville Community Hospital suffered financial losses, ‘could have been in trouble’
SPECIAL REPORT: The company that bought Watsonville Community Hospital in 2019 abruptly stopped managing it last month….
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State backs away from assigning more patients to nurses following protests in Watsonville, beyond
SPECIAL REPORT: The company that bought Watsonville Community Hospital in 2019 abruptly stopped managing it last month….