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San Jose parks are still reeling from the heavy January rains, and the recent onslaught of wet and windy weather isn’t helping. Sixteen parks around the city are closed and it’s unclear when they will reopen. In the last three months, a relentless number of atmospheric river storms have pounded the Bay Area. Rain coupled with strong...
Santa Clara County doctors celebrate new management
Santa Clara County will not renew a contract with an Ohio-based medical group overseeing emergency department doctors at Valley Medical Center in San Jose, one year after workers protested against the company. The county Board of Supervisors voted earlier this month to let the contract with US Acute Care Solutions (USACS) expire at the end of June....
Santa Clara County looks to expand low-cost drug program
Santa Clara County residents can check insulin, asthma inhalers and EPI pen costs off their worry list, as a new county program looks to expand. The county’s $1 million MedAssist initiative, which launched last March, offers monthly grants to pay for asthma inhalers, epinephrine auto-injectors (EPI pens), insulin and other diabetes medications. The program serves county...
East San Jose lake restoration loses funding
Things got heated at Tuesday’s San Jose City Council meeting when councilmembers reversed a prior decision to use more than $3 million of Measure T funds for the restoration of Lake Cunningham in East San Jose. This week, councilmembers voted 8-3 to divert the remaining $3.2 million in funds from the environmental protection budget into...
San Jose hospital workers protest chronic short staffing
“It’s only right, it’s only fair, invest your profits in patient care!” Dozens of health care workers echoed the chant as they rallied outside of Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose on Wednesday. Patient care technicians, service workers, X-ray technicians and other hospital support staff said the company overseeing Good Samaritan, HCA Healthcare, is chronically...
Coalition calls on San Jose to build park along Coyote Creek
A 50-acre piece of land along Coyote Creek sits deserted and is frequently home to encampments and blight, yet the city still hesitates to support a coalition’s pursuit to turn it into a park for community benefit. Coyote Meadows Coalition, a group comprised of more than a dozen local groups and hundreds of volunteers, has spent the...
Santa Clara County hospital workers struggle with shortage
Santa Clara County health care workers are demanding leaders address ongoing worker shortages they said are leading to unsafe working conditions. Dozens of nurses, physicians, medical assistants and hospital janitorial staff took to the streets in front of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (VMC) in San Jose Wednesday to protest what they said is a longstanding...
FAA pauses investigation of Santa Clara County leaded fuel ban
The Federal Aviation Administration is temporary suspending its investigation into Santa Clara County’s ban on the sale of leaded fuel at its airports. The investigation is on hold for six months as part of an agreement signed this week between the FAA and county officials. The agreement also serves as an invitation for the two county...
How clean is Silicon Valley’s drinking water?
It’s been more than two decades since the movie “Erin Brockovich” brought the real-life issue of contaminated drinking water in a small Southern California town to a mass audience. But the harmful compound at the heart of the film, Chromium-6, is still present in much of the drinking water around the state, including in the...
Santa Clara County closing mass COVID vaccine and testing sites
Santa Clara County will close its mass COVID-19 vaccination and testing sites by the end of February, but the pandemic is far from over for those with compromised health conditions. County health officials gathered Wednesday to discuss the closures, which are set to happen by Feb. 28. But the pandemic’s long-term impacts on vulnerable populations cannot...