Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: David Canepa, Board of Supervisors, District 5
Don Horsley, Board of Supervisors, District 3
Subject: Resolution Calling for Seton Medical Center to be Maintained as a Full-Service Acute Care Hospital
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution calling for Seton Medical Center to be maintained as a full-service acute care hospital with an emergency department, under the conditions set forth by the state Attorney General's Office.
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BACKGROUND:
Seton Medical Center ("Seton"), in Daly City, was founded in 1893 by the Daughters of Charity as Mary's Help Hospital, and it has been providing medical care to the people of northern San Mateo County and San Francisco for over a century. Verity Health System ("Verity"), is a regional health care system owned by Blue Mountain Capital, a hedge fund with extensive experience in the health care industry. In 2015, Verity assumed control of the system formerly known as the Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS), which, as noted above, owned and operated Seton and, in the spirit of its founders, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, was committed to providing holistic, spiritually-centered care to the sick and poor. The California Attorney General approved the 2015 sale of DCHS to Blue Mountain Capital, and Blue Mountain rebranded the system as Verity Health System.
Seton's 357-bed facility serves a highly diverse population of 1.5 million residents in San Mateo County and San Francisco with a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and emergency services. Verity employs 1,500 people at Seton and serves 28,000 patients annually in Seton's emergency department with 85 percent of them relying on Medicare or Medi-Cal coverage.
DISCUSSION:
In approving the sale of Seton and the other hospitals in DCHS to Verity, the California Attorney General imposed certain cond...
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