Accusing Good Samaritan Hospital of putting profits over people, the San Jose Planning Commission is recommending that the City Council deny the health care agency’s request to rezone its campus as part of its larger vision to build a new hospital that complies with the state’s seismic requirements by 2030.
Good Samaritan, owned by HCA Healthcare, had requested the rezoning to increase its floor size as the hospital eventually plans to replace most of the facilities on its campus at 2425 Good Samaritan Drive.
But HCA’s past moves — including closing down psychiatric units at Good Samaritan and the decision to downgrade Regional Medical Center’s trauma center that prompted Santa Clara County to purchase the hospital — clouded much of the discussion, with commissioners chastising the health care behemoth…