It's Time to Sell Alameda Hospital, Repeal the Tax

Just as Alameda Power’s failed cable TV and Internet division became an albatross around Alameda taxpayers’ necks, so too has Alameda Hospital. The 2002 parcel tax was billed as Alameda’s only hope to save the Hospital, and it’s obviously failed, costing taxpayers an estimated $80 milion in the interim. (Roughly $7 million per year for eleven years.)

It’s time to hang a ‘for sale’ sign on the hospital, and cut our losses as soon as possible, rather than letting the facility bleed taxpayers dry. The Alameda Health Care district should find a buyer for the hospital who will trim it down to operate as an Emergency/Acute Care facility only.