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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the ongoing fight to stop the planned closure of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988440/advocates-protest-planned-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center\">only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County\u003c/a>, the state has dealt a blow to advocates and elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health shot down a request from a group of state Assembly members asking the agency to intervene in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990284/doctors-community-leaders-ramp-up-efforts-to-halt-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center\">Regional Medical Center’s closure of its trauma center\u003c/a> and cuts to other services, set to take effect Aug. 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymembers Ash Kalra, Marc Berman, Alex Lee, Evan Low and Gail Pellerin penned a June 17 letter asking CDPH to stop HCA Healthcare, the owner of Regional Medical Center, from closing its trauma center, eliminating its severe heart attack treatment program and downgrading its stroke services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CDPH, in a response to the legislators, said it has no authority to stop the planned cuts, because the services on the chopping block are considered supplemental, and fall outside a set of prescribed offerings the state mandates general acute care hospitals maintain, according to Kalra’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, the public health agency said it supports equitable access to hospital care for all communities but noted the law only requires CDPH and other agencies to be notified about hospitals’ intent to cut services or close departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While any reduction of supplemental services is concerning, CDPH cannot compel facilities to provide them,” the statement said. “CDPH is monitoring this situation, and basic services at [Regional Medical Center] continue to be provided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts “will have negative impacts on health care services for disadvantaged communities in East San José and further strain the County’s health care system,” the legislators wrote. “Our delegation has serious concerns about how this will cause further harm to historically underserved and marginalized members of our communities, potentially leading to preventable fatalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the legislators sent their letter to CDPH and got a response within about a week, the County Board of Supervisors approved sending a similar request to intervene to CDPH in April, though county staff told KQED the county has not yet received an official response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the clock on the closures and cuts at Regional Medical Center ticks, the denial from CDPH further narrows a slim list of potential reprieves for those hoping to avert the loss of services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, patient advocates, doctors, nurses and elected officials have called on Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom to intervene, but it’s unclear if any action will be taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Regional Medical Center was previously a nonprofit hospital before being purchased by HCA in 2002, local officials say Bonta has the authority to stop service cuts at the hospital if they would have a “discriminatory” impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office previously told KQED it is reviewing the matter but cannot comment on a potential or ongoing investigation “to protect its integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the governor’s office previously deferred comment to the California Health and Human Services Agency, which has not responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmella Gutierrez, a spokesperson for HCA’s Far West Division, said in a prior statement that the campaign against the hospital is choosing “exaggeration to generate a false fear” in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA said in a letter to the county’s emergency services department that it has seen a 38% reduction in patients at Regional Medical Center’s trauma center since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while a county report found that the trauma center handles an average of 2,450 trauma patients annually, about a quarter of all reported cases for the trauma system in the county, Gutierrez said only 1,466 met National Trauma Data Bank criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regional Medical Center is the only comprehensive stroke center on the northeast, east and southeast side of the county — and a county report said that 20% of all stroke patients arrive there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gutierrez said that although the hospital is cutting its severe heart attack services and downgrading its stroke services, it has strong and considerate transition plans that ensure patients are treated “in a timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another potential option is for the county to buy Regional Medical Center. The county previously purchased O’Connor Hospital in San José and St. Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy as its previous owner, Verity Health, filed for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether such a deal could happen with Regional Medical Center. County officials have held closed-door meetings with the hospital’s ownership, but details remain confidential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said last month that she hopes HCA Healthcare will decide not to cut services at Regional Medical Center in San José on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t do that, the county and other public entities are going to have to look at what we can do to protect the health and well-being of our citizens. And I assure you, we are doing that,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Gohill was booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail on charges of burglary, vandalism and conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“District attorneys have to make decisions in the interest of justice, and it’s not in the interest of justice to prosecute a reporter for reporting the news,” David Loy, the legal director for the First Amendment Coalition, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter, the consortium highlights that during the protest action, Gohill was dressed in red Stanford Daily attire and displaying a press badge, while the protesters were dressed in black. Gohill did not participate in the protest in any way, nor did he vandalize any property, and he identified himself as a journalist to officers, the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Based on the circumstances and absence of any criminal motivation, we urge your office to avoid expending significant resources prosecuting a young journalist who was acting in good faith to serve the public’s interest in timely coverage of newsworthy events,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gohill’s editors at the Daily have also issued \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/12/letter-from-the-board-on-our-reporters-arrest/\">multiple\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/05/letter-from-the-editors-on-todays-arrests-at-the-presidents-office/\">statements\u003c/a> noting that he was there to cover the protest, along with another reporter who remained outside, and he was in communication with his editors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Rosen’s office, Sean Webby, told KQED that the district attorney’s office has still not received cases regarding the people arrested at Stanford on June 5, so the office declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consortium’s calls in defense of Gohill join \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989520/stanford-student-newspaper-editors-call-for-charges-against-reporter-to-be-dropped\">similar requests\u003c/a> from the editors of the Daily and come in the wake of Stanford University doubling down on supporting the criminal prosecution of Gohill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gohill “had no First Amendment or other legal right to be barricaded inside the president’s office,” the university said in a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/university-statement-on-stanford-daily-students-arrested-on-june-5\">June 10 statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that the Daily reporter reporting from inside the building acted in violation of the law and university policies and fully support having him be criminally prosecuted and referred to Stanford’s Office of Community Standards along with the other students,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press freedom organizations are not the only ones demanding Gohill not be punished. He is now being represented for free by an array of attorneys, who have also called out the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university taking the position that this kid’s a criminal, they’re in the wrong. And I would expect more of Stanford,” attorney Nick Rowley said. He added that he is ready to sue the school and law enforcement over the treatment of Gohill if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowley said the criminal charges against Gohill should be dropped, and the university should not pursue any disciplinary action against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989520,news_11989050,news_11984203\"]“This was a big mistake. And we can forgive people for making mistakes and we can forget. But if they’re going to continue to press forward against this young man, they’re going to regret it. Everybody’s going to regret it,” Rowley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prominent First Amendment and media attorney, Jean-Paul Jassy, who was also representing Gohill, said it was clear Gohill was there as a journalist to report the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you take a step back and you realize that the university is making a public statement that they actually encourage his criminal prosecution, that’s just ridiculous,” Jassy said. “It’s an affront not just to the sense of justice that I think we all have, but it’s really an attack on First Amendment principles of free press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Daily’s editors previously noted that a second newspaper staffer, an editor, was present in the president’s office, but unlike Gohill, that editor was there to participate in the protest and was not there in a journalistic capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Daily said that the editor had not been involved in coverage related to the Israel-Gaza war “due to an established conflict of interest on this issue,” and the editor stepped down from their position at the paper earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Later that year, he was declared “factually innocent” by the \u003ca href=\"https://ncip.org/lionel-rubalcava/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara County Superior Court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/29/san-jose-man-exonerated-after-17-years-behind-bars-sues-for-wrongful-conviction/\">Rubalcava sued the city in 2020\u003c/a>, claiming he was wrongfully convicted. His attorneys said the conviction was based largely on the identifications San Jose police garnered by threatening, pressuring and coercing witnesses, including the victim of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are supposed to be able to trust police officers for our protection and safety,” Rubalcava said in a statement on Tuesday. “In my case, the San José Police Department singled me out and framed me for a crime I didn’t commit. 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"content": "\u003cp>The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the old saying goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Friday, the first scoop of dirt was taken out of the ground in what has been a decadeslong journey of planning and fundraising to run six new miles of BART track through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, known as VTA, held a groundbreaking on Friday to celebrate the beginning of heavy construction work on its BART Silicon Valley Phase II project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is a critical step in fulfilling the longstanding vision of ringing the Bay with high-quality, green-transit passenger rail,” Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot speaks during the agency’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project groundbreaking event on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The $12.7 billion undertaking will extend BART from its current end of the line at Berryessa Station in North San José and will run west to create four new stations: 28th Street/Little Portugal near East San José, Downtown San José, Diridon and Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is more than a transit expansion. It’s a catalyst for sustainable urban development and promoting affordable housing and equitable access to education, to health care, to jobs, to opportunities and strengthening neighborhoods for generations to come,” Gonot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay officials at the groundbreaking emphasized how big transportation projects require collective efforts and steadfast commitment to a vision over many years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said people are still benefiting from services like Caltrain today due to forward-looking investments made in the past. He noted he used the rail line to commute to run his former business in San Francisco while living in San José and a bus line in his youth to traverse Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transit changed my life. It allowed me to get where I needed to go again and again, and it was a gift from past generations,” Mahan said. “We need to give that same gift to the next generation, and the one after that, and the one after that. Because transit connectivity creates opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said transit projects take collective effort and vision to complete during a groundbreaking event for VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project in Santa Clara on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project has faced significant timeline delays and massive cost increases long before any of the golden-colored shovels wielded by politicians and project leaders hit the ground on Friday in the hot sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An original VTA estimate in 2014 put the project cost at $4.7 billion, hoping to open the new stations to riders by 2026, which is more than two-and-a-half times cheaper than the current estimate and about 11 years sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2020 and 2021, the cost increased to $6.9 billion, then to $9.1 billion, in part due to evaluations from federal officials overseeing the project. VTA later revised its own estimate to $12.2 billion in October 2023, and another federal estimate earlier this year pegged the current cost and timeline, which VTA has not refuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989983,news_11988365,news_11986396\"]But local and regional leaders have largely held firm in calling for the project to push ahead, despite the hurdles and fumbles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t imagine what our valley will look like in 50 or 100 years, but we can be confident that connecting rail around the Bay and helping millions of people access the heart of Silicon Valley, where most of the region’s growth is expected to happen in the coming decades, is going to create opportunity for so many,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a new BART station, the site of the groundbreaking in Santa Clara near the border of San José is where a huge hole will be dug to eventually allow a $76 million tunnel boring machine being assembled in Germany to be dropped into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once in place, it will begin eating away at millions of cubic yards of dirt to make way for the largely underground extension. The muck removed from the tunneling effort and digging for other station construction is set to be used to help benefit tidal marsh restoration efforts in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said that breaking ground on projects such as the BART extension and the recent start of construction of an elevated light rail extension through a heavily trafficked part of East San José shows a commitment to advancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor and VTA Board Chair Cindy Chavez thanks VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot (right) for her efforts to guide the agency’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We deserve world-class transportation in one of the most important economic hubs in the world,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a recognition of not just the importance of this community, but a recognition that we in this region are not stopping, we’re going to keep growing,” she said. “We’re not slowing down. We’re going to continue to be the center of innovation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the planned closure of the only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County draws nearer, a coalition of health care workers, advocates and community leaders are ramping up their efforts to halt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by thousands of people who have signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/stop-closure-of-trauma-comp-stroke-code-heart-at-regional-med-ctr-san-jose-immediately\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online petition\u003c/a>, the group is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in and prevent what they call the life-threatening closure of the trauma center and other service cuts at Regional Medical Center, a hospital in East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a choice but to fight,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said Thursday at a rally just steps from the entrance to Regional Medical Center. “Because if the state understood the impacts to this community, they already would have weighed in to say no to HCA removing these critical services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on Thursday. Chavez and a coalition of advocates are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt the closure of the hospital’s trauma center. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s ownership group, Hospital Corporation of America, or HCA Healthcare, is planning on Aug. 12 to shutter the Level II trauma center at Regional and eliminate its ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program, which handles severe heart attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also plans to downgrade its stroke services from the “comprehensive” level, which can care for all types of stroke patients and has 24/7 availability for complex neurosurgery, to “primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of staff members, including surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel at the hospital, recently started receiving termination notices tied to the planned cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure were to proceed, patients who needed such services would need to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county health care system, the county said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on Thursday to halt the cuts follow earlier requests by the group and county officials asking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the California Department of Public Health to investigate the planned cuts and to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office on Thursday said it is reviewing the matter but is unable to comment on a potential or ongoing investigation “to protect its integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Governor’s office deferred comment to the California Health and Human Services Agency, who did not immediately respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez, as well as other elected leaders, doctors, nurses and patient advocates, are raising alarms over the cuts, which they say will lead to more deaths and worse health outcomes for people all over the region who rely on the critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Medical Center in East San José is planning to close its trauma center and cut back other critical services on Aug. 12. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changes happening are discriminatory, the group said, as they will hit hardest in the area around the hospital, an area of the county with larger proportions of families with low income and of people of color who are more likely to have a harder time accessing health care in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the west side of San José, HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, where there are more hospitals to address health care needs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HCA has yet again decided to place profits over patients,” Melissa Gong, a registered nurse at Regional Medical Center, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many East San José residents have no insurance or are underinsured, have lower health literacy, and often face language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, many of these patients have chronic health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes, and resulting comorbidities. All comorbidities that require the use of stroke, STEMI, and trauma services,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement issued Thursday, Carmella Gutierrez, a spokesperson for HCA’s Far West Division, said the campaign against the hospital is choosing “exaggeration to generate a false fear” in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Diangson, a member of Defensoras, a patient organizing committee with health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Cindy Chavez knows better. Yet, she has chosen to divide the community with grand-standing photo ops rather than engage in a conversation about sustainable healthcare and the facts,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA said in a letter to the county’s emergency services department that it has seen a 38% reduction in patients at Regional Medical Center’s trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while a county report said the trauma center handles an average of 2,450 trauma patients annually, about a quarter of all reported trauma cases for the trauma system in the county, HCA disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported volumes in the County’s impact statement are overstated and do not align with the reality at RMC,” the letter from HCA said. “We average four trauma patients per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990290\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates pushing to stop the closure of Regional Medical Center’s trauma center carry a box made to look like a casket just outside the hospital in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company also said that the county’s requirements for operating the trauma center are costly because they go beyond what the American College of Surgeons recommends, including having a neurological surgery backup physician, more training and education for physicians and nurses, and higher fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital also said it expects to lose more trauma patients as Washington Hospital in Fremont, in Alameda County, comes online as a trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gong, the nurse, said HCA calling the campaign to stop the cuts exaggerated is deflecting from the heart of the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re gaslighting everybody,” Gong said. “We’re going to cut all the services that treat this side of town and underserved populations. And then when people fight back, we’re going to say, ‘Oh, but you’re upset that we’re taking away your services, well it’s how you’re receiving it, not what we’re doing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11987665,news_11988440\"]During the rally on Thursday, members of the coalition enacted a “funeral procession,” carrying black boxes made to look like caskets for 15 minutes near the hospital. The procession symbolizes the extra time it might take a patient to reach another trauma center in an emergency if the Regional Medical Center’s trauma center closes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Raj Gupta, the head of neurology and stroke services at the hospital, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988440/advocates-protest-planned-closure-of-east-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who has spoken out\u003c/a> against the cuts, said he doesn’t like the greediness of HCA Healthcare, which made $5.2 billion in profit last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues are participating in the rallies to try to stop them or, at minimum, raise awareness of the cuts that could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can close my eyes and let it happen, right?” he said. “But the public will not know until Aug. 12, when a crisis occurs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As the planned closure of the only trauma center on the east side of Santa Clara County draws nearer, a coalition of health care workers, advocates and community leaders are ramping up their efforts to halt it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backed by thousands of people who have signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/stop-closure-of-trauma-comp-stroke-code-heart-at-regional-med-ctr-san-jose-immediately\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online petition\u003c/a>, the group is urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in and prevent what they call the life-threatening closure of the trauma center and other service cuts at Regional Medical Center, a hospital in East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have a choice but to fight,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said Thursday at a rally just steps from the entrance to Regional Medical Center. “Because if the state understood the impacts to this community, they already would have weighed in to say no to HCA removing these critical services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990292\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on Thursday. Chavez and a coalition of advocates are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to halt the closure of the hospital’s trauma center. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hospital’s ownership group, Hospital Corporation of America, or HCA Healthcare, is planning on Aug. 12 to shutter the Level II trauma center at Regional and eliminate its ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) program, which handles severe heart attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also plans to downgrade its stroke services from the “comprehensive” level, which can care for all types of stroke patients and has 24/7 availability for complex neurosurgery, to “primary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of staff members, including surgeons, doctors and other medical personnel at the hospital, recently started receiving termination notices tied to the planned cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure were to proceed, patients who needed such services would need to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county health care system, the county said previously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls on Thursday to halt the cuts follow earlier requests by the group and county officials asking \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987665/advocates-urge-state-to-intervene-in-closure-of-san-jose-trauma-center\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the California Department of Public Health to investigate the planned cuts and to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office on Thursday said it is reviewing the matter but is unable to comment on a potential or ongoing investigation “to protect its integrity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Governor’s office deferred comment to the California Health and Human Services Agency, who did not immediately respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez, as well as other elected leaders, doctors, nurses and patient advocates, are raising alarms over the cuts, which they say will lead to more deaths and worse health outcomes for people all over the region who rely on the critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990289\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Regional Medical Center in East San José is planning to close its trauma center and cut back other critical services on Aug. 12. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The changes happening are discriminatory, the group said, as they will hit hardest in the area around the hospital, an area of the county with larger proportions of families with low income and of people of color who are more likely to have a harder time accessing health care in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on the west side of San José, HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, where there are more hospitals to address health care needs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HCA has yet again decided to place profits over patients,” Melissa Gong, a registered nurse at Regional Medical Center, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many East San José residents have no insurance or are underinsured, have lower health literacy, and often face language barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result, many of these patients have chronic health conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes, and resulting comorbidities. All comorbidities that require the use of stroke, STEMI, and trauma services,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement issued Thursday, Carmella Gutierrez, a spokesperson for HCA’s Far West Division, said the campaign against the hospital is choosing “exaggeration to generate a false fear” in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990293\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Diangson, a member of Defensoras, a patient organizing committee with health nonprofit Latinas Contra Cancer, speaks at a rally outside Regional Medical Center in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Cindy Chavez knows better. Yet, she has chosen to divide the community with grand-standing photo ops rather than engage in a conversation about sustainable healthcare and the facts,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA said in a letter to the county’s emergency services department that it has seen a 38% reduction in patients at Regional Medical Center’s trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while a county report said the trauma center handles an average of 2,450 trauma patients annually, about a quarter of all reported trauma cases for the trauma system in the county, HCA disagreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reported volumes in the County’s impact statement are overstated and do not align with the reality at RMC,” the letter from HCA said. “We average four trauma patients per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990290\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990290\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-REGIONALMED-JG-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates pushing to stop the closure of Regional Medical Center’s trauma center carry a box made to look like a casket just outside the hospital in East San José on June 13. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The company also said that the county’s requirements for operating the trauma center are costly because they go beyond what the American College of Surgeons recommends, including having a neurological surgery backup physician, more training and education for physicians and nurses, and higher fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital also said it expects to lose more trauma patients as Washington Hospital in Fremont, in Alameda County, comes online as a trauma center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gong, the nurse, said HCA calling the campaign to stop the cuts exaggerated is deflecting from the heart of the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re gaslighting everybody,” Gong said. “We’re going to cut all the services that treat this side of town and underserved populations. 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The agency also said it would continue encouraging those cities to reappoint members for consecutive terms whenever feasible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berman said he was “surprised and disappointed” that VTA is resisting those changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be honest, I found their arguments against those two recommendations to be laughably weak,” he said. “It makes no sense from a good governance standpoint, either in how you appoint the board members or for how long you appoint the board members.[aside label=\"More public transit coverage\" tag=\"public-transit\"]In a statement, Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, chair of the VTA board, didn’t directly address those points of disagreement but said she thought the report was thorough, fair and thoughtful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“VTA has a strong commitment to continuous improvement and takes every independent evaluation very seriously,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent audit comes four years after a county grand jury investigation found the agency operated one of the “most expensive and least efficient” transit systems in the country and accused it of making many service decisions for political reasons rather than those in the best interest of quality transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Operating costs increase continuously, and taxpayers subsidize 90% of these costs, to the tune of about $5.50 per rider for each bus trip and $10.75 per rider for each light rail trip,” the 2019 grand jury report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent audit noted that VTA should — but does not — conduct cost-benefit analyses of its projects, nor does it consistently estimate the costs of project operations and maintenance. 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The group said it wants the school to divest from companies tied to Israel’s military assault on the Gaza Strip, among other demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said they found damage inside the building, and the sandstone exterior of the building and others around it in the main quad area was graffitied with messages including “kill cops,” “death to Israel,” and “free Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued Friday afternoon, Kaushikee Nayudu, the editor-in-chief and president of \u003cem>The Stanford Daily, \u003c/em>said one of the paper’s reporters, Dilan Gohill, was present to cover the demonstration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He identified himself as a member of the press multiple times. He continued to stress this information — and showed his press pass to officers he engaged with — at the (Stanford University Department of Public Safety) station and Santa Clara County Jail,” Nayudu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that officers he interacted with “acknowledged and noted his role as a reporter,” but he was nevertheless arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail on a felony charge of burglary with intent to commit a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not participate in the construction of barricades or vandalism and explicitly told protesters he would not assist since he was present as reporter,” Nayudu said. “We hope the university will lift his suspension and urge the DA’s office to drop the charges against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayudu and other editors of the paper, in an \u003ca href=\"https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/05/letter-from-the-editors-on-todays-arrests-at-the-presidents-office/\">opinion piece\u003c/a> published Wednesday, said arresting Gohill was a violation of his First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights. “We are appalled at this threat to the freedom of the press.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-15-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building 10 at Stanford University, where pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the university president’s office and occupied it before being arrested on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The paper’s editors also said a second Daily staffer, an editor, was present in the president’s office to participate in the protest but was not there in a journalistic capacity. They noted that she has not been involved in coverage related to the Israel-Gaza war “due to an established conflict of interest on this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nayudu said Friday that the editor who participated in the protest has since stepped down from her position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All 13 people arrested were charged with the same crime, according to an arrest log from the university, and were held on $20,000 bail for much of Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, Brooks Jarosz, said Friday that all of those arrested were released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those arrested were released without having to pay bail in exchange for agreeing to conditions of their release, while others chose to post the bail and not agree to the conditions, Jarosz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when those arrested will be arraigned in court. A spokesperson for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, Sean Webby, said the office hadn’t yet received the cases from the Stanford Department of Public Safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/this-morning-s-occupation-of-building-10\">previous statement\u003c/a>, Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said all students who were inside the office and arrested would be suspended, and any of them who are seniors would not be allowed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions are necessary based on the public safety threat posed to our campus community,” the statement read. “The situation on campus has now crossed the line from peaceful protest to actions that threaten the safety of our community,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A school spokesperson, Dee Mostofi, did not respond to questions about whether the school intends to continue to press charges against Gohill and maintain his suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11989050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240605-STANFORD-JG-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Following the arrests at the president’s office, the university on Wednesday also dismantled a pro-Palestinian protest encampment that had been set up weeks earlier on a central plaza. In their statement, Saller and Martinez said the encampment violated multiple university policies and again cited an interest in public safety as a reason to clear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Zahr, an assistant professor at Stanford and a member of the group Stanford Faculty for Justice in Palestine, said she feels the university leadership’s characterization of the protests and occupation has been overblown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how anybody’s endangered,” Zahr said. “I mean, yes, there might have been vandalism, but I’m sorry people are getting killed” in the Israel-Gaza war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also cast doubt on whether the students behind the occupation were also responsible for graffiti on campus building exteriors and said $20,000 bail for those arrested is excessive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahr said she wrote a note to Saller on Wednesday asking for “due process” and for him to “clearly find out who was involved in doing what” before he decided on punishments for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, she said she’s proud of students speaking out and taking action on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They invigorated an apathetic population, including me,” she said. “I’m just praying that this will be over soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Though Segovia is not a police officer and was an administrative employee for the union representing roughly 1,100 San José police officers, investigators said she claimed at one point to “work for the police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia is alleged to have continued ordering drugs after being interviewed by federal authorities in February 2023. A package sent from China in March 2023 addressed to her and labeled as containing a “clock” was seized by federal agents in Kentucky. The attorney’s office said the package actually contained valeryl fentanyl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys in the case have not commented on what a possible deal might look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where a case involves serious drugs, that involves any kind of distribution, somebody is often looking at prison time,” Jayne said. 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They would come roughly four years after Regional Medical Center closed its labor and delivery unit as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter to Bonta, Green and Fernandez said HCA has a track record of making decisions prioritizing profits over people, resulting in discriminatory impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If HCA healthcare is allowed to continue to increase their profits on the backs of our loved ones with the most critical health needs and proceed with these closures, we will all be less healthy and we will all be less safe,” Green said Friday during a rally outside the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez and San Jose Councilmember Peter Ortiz also gathered at the rally, along with Dr. Raj Gupta, the director of stroke and neuroscience services at Regional Medical Center, to highlight these concerns and ask Bonta to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If in fact what they’re doing is not against the law, then the next thing we should be thinking about is how to make it against the law to literally put lives on the line or lives at risk,” Chavez said of HCA’s actions. “Frankly, they have been doing it in our community for so long that I have very little trust that HCA will do the right thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987728\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11987728 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240524-REGIONALMEDICAL-JG-6_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez speaks during a rally outside of Regional Medical Center in East San José on May 24. Chavez and others called on Attorney General Rob Bonta to halt service cuts planned by the hospital’s ownership. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chavez called attention to the disparities in healthcare and hospital service between East San Jose and the west side of the city. HCA is planning a major expansion and remodel of its Good Samaritan Hospital near the Cambrian Park neighborhood, while cutting critical services at Regional Medical Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, HCA spokesperson Jack Finn said Regional Medical Center is “disappointed by the actions” of Chavez and Ortiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact is, we are responding to the patient care needs of our community so we can continue to care for our community’s health for the long term,” Finn said. He added that Regional has invested $186 million over a decade in emergency services, and intends to invest $10 million this year to grow its emergency department capacity from 43 beds to 63.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief interview, Finn said the medical staff at the hospital is “not going to be distracted by outside noise” as they go about their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more health coverage\" tag=\"health\"]Meanwhile, Dr. Gupta, part of the medical staff at HCA, said it’s “irresponsible and shameful” to cut services at Regional Medical Center, and the decision will add pressure to the rest of the healthcare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Valley Medical Center will feel the heat. Good Samaritan will feel the heat. All other hospitals. “We are opposing it because we do believe in the first rule in medicine, do no harm,” Gupta said at the rally. “And this action will harm our patients, our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Regional Medical Center was previously a nonprofit hospital before being purchased by HCA in 2002, local officials say Bonta has the authority to stop discriminatory service cuts. They cited similar actions by North Carolina’s attorney general, who sued HCA last year for “not providing the quality, consistent emergency and cancer care” it committed to offering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A county report last month said that the Regional Medical Center is the primary destination for one in four stroke patients transported by ambulance in the region, and it serves 65% of stroke patients in the county with no insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its trauma center sees an average of 2,450 patients annually, about a quarter of all trauma cases in the county. If the closure were to proceed, such patients would have to be transported to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, run by the county, or Stanford Hospital, which would have a “negative cascading effect” on the county healthcare system, officials said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, which runs 11 of the Family Resource Centers out of about 20 in Santa Clara County, will shut down up to six of them across San José and Sunnyvale by this summer, officials told KQED. The closures will create significant challenges for families who rely on these centers, which provide a range of support and educational programs, including classes for parents and children, diapers and food, as well as books and recreational materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centers’ funding has decreased by roughly 75% due to an ongoing decline in Proposition 10 tobacco taxes. Those taxes fund a range of early childhood development and family support programs around the state, overseen by First 5 California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11955931 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-1486127438-1020x667.jpg']“What was the challenge for us is the depth of the cuts for this coming year,” Catholic Charities CEO Greg Kepferle said. “There’s not enough money to run all these centers. And so tough decisions have to be made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kepferle said the organization typically received around $4 million annually from the state taxes to run the family centers, administered through a local agency, but is receiving just $1 million for the upcoming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five centers closing are Sherman Oaks, Evergreen, Cureton and Hubbard in San José and the San Miguel center in Sunnyvale, according to a spokesperson for the nonprofit. Cureton and Hubbard will close in August, while the others will close at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sixth center, Luther Burbank, is also at risk of closure, but Catholic Charities is pursuing an alternative funding deal to keep running that location for another year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the potential for closures, Catholic Charities informed 45 employees late last month their jobs were at risk and filed the required layoff notices with the state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://biglocalnews.org/content/tools/layoff-watch.html\">Big Local News’ Layoff Watch\u003c/a>. Kepferle said some of those employees are already finding other roles within the organization, though it’s unclear how many will ultimately be retained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the centers that can stay open, some of which have other funding sources to complement the First 5 money, Kepferle said the level of services is likely to shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still want to have a footprint in the neighborhoods, but it may not be the same. One of the things that we have relied on pretty extensively is the power of volunteers. So our hope is that where we can, we’ll try to leverage that power in the volunteer community to keep services going,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Ceja, a mother who started as a client, began volunteering in 2020 to help others. She’s now on staff at Catholic Charities, working in family support programs, and said the cuts could be a major blow to kids and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will take away so many resources and so many lives that could potentially become better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By her late 20s, Ceja was a mom to three young children, including a daughter who developed special needs at 15 months old. While her husband worked long hours to help provide for their family, Ceja put her entire focus into making sure her kids got what they needed each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress of parenting, while also learning about her daughter Violet’s autism and bouncing between medical appointments, pushed her into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I forgot about my passions. I just focused on basically surviving for my kids,” Ceja said. “I left theater, and it was very hard to make friends because I was always with my kids at home or at the store. I wanted to give them the childhood that I didn’t have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when another parent at Violet’s school invited Ceja to come explore the Family Resource Center in San José’s Seven Trees neighborhood, she said things began to improve for her almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt heard, and I felt like I was not alone anymore. It was the community that was being formed, the people who were there, the other moms who also felt safe to come here. You talk and forget about, you know, the dirty dishes or the laundry,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would leave her kids at classes at the center where they would learn, sing and play, while she and later her husband would also take parenting classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just having those resources completely started opening my mind to other ways of parenting and even connecting with people who had other resources for my kids that I didn’t know about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987559\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/23/several-family-resource-centers-to-close-across-santa-clara-county/pxl_20240520_2114040012/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987559\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11987559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1020x768.jpg\" alt=\"the outside of a low building with a courtyard in front\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1920x1445.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Educare Family Resource Center in San Jose is one of the family centers that is scheduled to stay open. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First 5 Santa Clara County, which oversees and allocates the local portion of tobacco tax funding in the Valley, has been adapting to the tax revenue decline by building \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5kids.org/about-us/strategic-plan/\">new strategic plans\u003c/a>. Leaders say they plan to focus on serving families most in need, including those facing unstable housing, those with children with disabilities or who are lower-income and immigrant families, especially those with no documentation or mixed documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, officials said the step California lawmakers took to ban the sale of most flavored tobacco products in late 2022 led to a greater decline in tax revenue and added to the need to make steep cuts. Other programs are being affected beyond Family Resource Centers, including some that support children’s mental health and well-being and home visitation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five fiscal years, revenues for the First 5 Santa Clara County averaged $26.3 million annually, with about $14 million coming from Proposition 10. This year, tobacco tax funding is down to about $11 million, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do anticipate that for some families, this will be really difficult because their local or their closest Family Resource Center will be closing,” said Jennifer Kelleher Cloyd, CEO of First 5 Santa Clara County. “Our Family Resource Centers have been kind of the hallmark of First 5 work for many years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cloyd said that because First 5 was the primary or sole funder for many of these centers, the organization has been encouraging and supporting nonprofits that carry out this work to seek out other funding from grants, foundations, corporations or local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really committed to trying to make sure we have communication for families about where else they can continue to access resources,” Cloyd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First 5 chapters from around the state are also appealing to legislators to find other sources of money to backfill early childhood and family support as tobacco tax revenues continue to fall. But it’s unclear if or when that could materialize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the state grappling with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">an estimated $45 billion budget deficit\u003c/a>, additional funding cuts may be in the works. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget revision proposed more cuts to programs and services aimed at young children and families, First 5 said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely very painful to see,” Ceja said of the center closures and the loss of some staff members. “At the end of the day, they are part of the community, and people love them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, which runs 11 of the Family Resource Centers out of about 20 in Santa Clara County, will shut down up to six of them across San José and Sunnyvale by this summer, officials told KQED. The closures will create significant challenges for families who rely on these centers, which provide a range of support and educational programs, including classes for parents and children, diapers and food, as well as books and recreational materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The centers’ funding has decreased by roughly 75% due to an ongoing decline in Proposition 10 tobacco taxes. Those taxes fund a range of early childhood development and family support programs around the state, overseen by First 5 California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the potential for closures, Catholic Charities informed 45 employees late last month their jobs were at risk and filed the required layoff notices with the state, according to \u003ca href=\"https://biglocalnews.org/content/tools/layoff-watch.html\">Big Local News’ Layoff Watch\u003c/a>. Kepferle said some of those employees are already finding other roles within the organization, though it’s unclear how many will ultimately be retained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the centers that can stay open, some of which have other funding sources to complement the First 5 money, Kepferle said the level of services is likely to shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still want to have a footprint in the neighborhoods, but it may not be the same. One of the things that we have relied on pretty extensively is the power of volunteers. So our hope is that where we can, we’ll try to leverage that power in the volunteer community to keep services going,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Ceja, a mother who started as a client, began volunteering in 2020 to help others. She’s now on staff at Catholic Charities, working in family support programs, and said the cuts could be a major blow to kids and parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will take away so many resources and so many lives that could potentially become better,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By her late 20s, Ceja was a mom to three young children, including a daughter who developed special needs at 15 months old. While her husband worked long hours to help provide for their family, Ceja put her entire focus into making sure her kids got what they needed each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress of parenting, while also learning about her daughter Violet’s autism and bouncing between medical appointments, pushed her into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I forgot about my passions. I just focused on basically surviving for my kids,” Ceja said. “I left theater, and it was very hard to make friends because I was always with my kids at home or at the store. I wanted to give them the childhood that I didn’t have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when another parent at Violet’s school invited Ceja to come explore the Family Resource Center in San José’s Seven Trees neighborhood, she said things began to improve for her almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt heard, and I felt like I was not alone anymore. It was the community that was being formed, the people who were there, the other moms who also felt safe to come here. You talk and forget about, you know, the dirty dishes or the laundry,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would leave her kids at classes at the center where they would learn, sing and play, while she and later her husband would also take parenting classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just having those resources completely started opening my mind to other ways of parenting and even connecting with people who had other resources for my kids that I didn’t know about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987559\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/05/23/several-family-resource-centers-to-close-across-santa-clara-county/pxl_20240520_2114040012/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11987559\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11987559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1020x768.jpg\" alt=\"the outside of a low building with a courtyard in front\" width=\"640\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-2048x1542.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/PXL_20240520_2114040012-1920x1445.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Educare Family Resource Center in San Jose is one of the family centers that is scheduled to stay open. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First 5 Santa Clara County, which oversees and allocates the local portion of tobacco tax funding in the Valley, has been adapting to the tax revenue decline by building \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5kids.org/about-us/strategic-plan/\">new strategic plans\u003c/a>. Leaders say they plan to focus on serving families most in need, including those facing unstable housing, those with children with disabilities or who are lower-income and immigrant families, especially those with no documentation or mixed documentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, officials said the step California lawmakers took to ban the sale of most flavored tobacco products in late 2022 led to a greater decline in tax revenue and added to the need to make steep cuts. Other programs are being affected beyond Family Resource Centers, including some that support children’s mental health and well-being and home visitation services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five fiscal years, revenues for the First 5 Santa Clara County averaged $26.3 million annually, with about $14 million coming from Proposition 10. 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