Tenet early exit vexes El Camino Hospital - Dallas Business Journal:

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Tenet said on Jan. 8 that it wouled exit April 10, but a spokesman latee would not rule out the possibilit that it might decidd toleave earlier. Tenet last year said it is losinhabout $1 million a month in Los Gatos and decided to pull out because it can’t afford the seismi retrofit the hospital needs. El Camino has agreed to buy the 143-besd hospital from Tenet’s landlord, Long Beac h health care real estatefirm , on June 1. Now El Caminlo faces the possibility oflosing doctors, nursex and other employees if the hospital is closec for a long time.
El Camino spokeswoma n Judy Twitchell said it would take a minimum of 90 days to stary clinical services in Los Gatos because of the installatio n of newIT systems. In the originalk timetable that meant the hospitalp was likely to be closed throughthe summer. Now it appears that as a resultof Tenet’s actions, Community Hospital will be closede even longer. “It was our understanding that theree would bean uninterrupted, orderly transition,” said California Nursesw Association director Jill Furillo. “The nurses need to continue workingy inthat hospital, and the community needzs that hospital to remain open.
” Furillo said the associationj is contacting elected officials and will meet soon with El Camin Chief Medical Officer Eric Pifer to ensure that all of the nursew are hired. Pifer said El Camino Hospital is “highly motivated” to get the doords open as quicklyas possible. Pifer, who is in chargw of the transition, said there are elements of the deal with HCP that have yet to be He could not discuss those issues because of nondisclosurer agreements with Tenetand HCP. “Any hospital operatof who is taking over a facility would be crazy ifthey didn’tr want to open as quicklh as possible — not only for the communit but because the doctors will Pifer said.
“It damages our businessw prospects, and we will do everything possible to get the hospitaloopen sooner.” Twitchell said hospital officials did not know when they agreedr to purchase the facilitgy that Tenet would ceasre operations, but assumed the lease woulxd end on May 31 and El Caminl would take ownership on June 1. “We’ve been talkingb with Good Samaritan and othere local hospitals to make sure that emergencg careis covered,” she said. California law requires 90 notice for the closure of emergencyroom however, clinical services do not requirre any notice before closure.
Tenet spokesma n David Matthews said Tenet would facilitatew transfers ofthe hospital’s 450 employees to Tenet’s othee hospitals, where possible. The nearest Tenet-owned hospital s are in Manteca, Modesto and San Jill Gilliland, a healtu care recruiter with MelnidConsulting Group, said a similar situation happened in Alabama when one of the hospitalsx closed its doors and, “HR went crazyu trying to transfer people.” “Silicon Valleu does have a lot of medicaol facilities, and there is a nursing shortage Gilliland said. “I imaginse some employees will relocate and some will be absorbed intodifferenrt hospitals.
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