Doctors Medical Center was an eight-story creekside hospital in San Pablo, California. It was the only cardiac/STEMI, stroke, and cancer center in Contra Costa County. The health facility once employed 1,100 people. The hospital has been described as the "backbone" of the community of 250,000 people between that is bordered by Vallejo to the north and Berkeley to the south. The West Contra Costa Healthcare District board voted on 26 March 2015 to close the facility in April. The hospital closed on April 21, 2015.HistoryThe hospital opened in 1948 when the community voted to create a special government district around the concept of building a modern hospital known as the West Contra Costa Healthcare District. In 1954 Brookside Hospital opened its doors and at a later time Tenet HealthSystems took over administration from the district. In 1997 the hospital was forced to receive nearly all the ambulance arrival emergency patients for west county as a result of a federal shut down of Kaiser Richmond. In 2004 Tenet dropped their contract and the hospital began to suffer from financial woes.Financial woesThe hospital was bailed out through several state loan, county funding, and ballot measure schemes throughout the 2000s decade as it struggled to remain open. The hospital is also struggling to secure funding necessary to retrofit and modernize to meet the state's strict earthquake proofing building standards.
"Henrico Doctors' Hospital is a 340-bed community hospital located in Richmond's West End. With four sister campuses spread throughout Henrico County, our mission is to ensure that you always have convenient access to high quality healthcare close to home. We specialize in services including cardiology, oncology, neurology, gastroenterology, kidney transplants and women's services. Throughout our various specialties, we strive to be on the leading edge of the latest technologies and techniques, and our surgeons utilize robotic and minimally invasive procedures whenever possible. For more information about our services, ER wait times and patient and visitor information, please visit our website."
