Hospital board's lawsuit upheld
The El Camino Hospital District board's lawsuit to regain control of the healthcare system from Camino Healthcare was upheld last week in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
A summary judgment hearing on the suit is slated for July 16 in Superior Court.
The hospital district is suing Camino Healthcare on the grounds that 1992 contracts transferring $250 million in public hospital assets to the healthcare corporation violate state conflict of interest law and are, therefore, void.
Judge Jeremy Fogel's ruling allows the Camino Medical Group--a physicians group that entered into a series of agreements with Camino Healthcare in 1994--to intervene in the lawsuit. The medical group holds substantial assets that would probably have to be returned to the hospital district if it wins its lawsuit.
City OKs median near Kaiser site
Sunnyvale City Council voted 4-3 to approve a partial median on Homestead Road near one of two main entrances of the propsed Kaiser Permamente Medical Center just south of the Sunnyvale/Santa Clara border. The 1.4 million-square-foot complex would have a main entrance on Lawrence Expressway and a second entrance on Homestead.
Sunnyvale had voted last year to install a full median at the facility's entrance if Kaiser did not change the configuration of its second entrance on Homestead. The median would prevent left turns into and out of Kaiser to cut down on traffic in surrounding neighborhoods.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, April 24, 1996.
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