San Jose Spotlight
Santa Clara County leaders have approved a $315 million effort to acquire and integrate Regional Medical Center into California’s second largest public hospital system — and restore the lifesaving care a for-profit corporation systematically cut from East San Jose.
While the county is still finalizing the agreement with HCA Healthcare, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to appropriate the money in its health department budget — with $175 million going toward acquiring the hospital…