Nearly 78 percent of county residents voted to issue $840
million in bonds to rebuild and improve Santa Clara Valley Medical
Center.
Nearly 78 percent of county residents voted to issue $840 million in bonds to rebuild and improve Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
The state would have shut down half of the San Jose facility’s beds that serve severely burned victims because the building is not earthquake safe.
Santa Clara County Supervisor and former Gilroy Councilman Don Gage praised the measure’s passage Tuesday evening.
“I’m very pleased,” Gage said. “If our hospital shut down, we wouldn’t be able to serve 10,000 people a year. The burn center would be gone, and people suffering from spinal chord and brain injuries would suffer.
“That would be really be tragic for the valley, and it would have overloaded other hospitals,” Gage said.
