...advanced technology needs to center on patients and their families and friends; it’s not a replacement for the compassionate care and community service that have characterized Eden’s past and will be a crucial part of its future.

The Eden Township Healthcare District has taken a leadership role in regional healthcare planning to ensure that the residents of the District continue to have access to quality medical services. The District – together with Eden Medical Center, San Leandro Hospital and Sutter Health – has the opportunity to work on a regional planning effort to ensure continuity and accessibility to a wide range of health services in central Alameda County. The District’s goal is to bring a long-term commitment to residents of the District – San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Hayward and surrounding communities – that is accomplished with the District’s investment and a partnership with Eden and Sutter Health.

 

Seismic safety is a major driving force behind the plans for a new Eden Medical Center. Equally important, however, is the need for a new physical structure that can meet changing health care needs in the opening decades of this century, including an aging population, evolving demographics and the changing paths technology is taking. Eden’s patients need and deserve the best, most advanced technology available. They and their families and visitors also benefit when artistic design, technology and attention to detail combine to create a facility that looks and feels like a place where healing is the primary concern.

 

That’s why Eden plans to use technology as thoughtfully as possible to serve human needs in the new facility.

 

A new hospital can be built with the latest technologies in mind: advanced information technology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, neuroscience, the latest in drug design and pharmacology, and the continuing shift toward outpatient or same-day care to treat many conditions that previously required lengthy and more expensive inpatient care. But advanced technology needs to center on patients and their families and friends; it’s not a replacement for the compassionate care and community service that have characterized Eden’s past and will be a crucial part of its future.

 

In December of 2007, the Eden Township Healthcare District and Sutter Health reached a landmark agreement to build a new hospital to replace the aging Eden facility. Under the agreement, Sutter Health will fund the development and construction of a new, $300 million, 130-bed hospital on the Eden Campus. Sutter Health’s investment in the construction of the new hospital includes related improvements and the demolition of the old hospital once services are transferred to the new facility. The construction project is funded by Sutter Health. Taxpayers will not bear the cost of construction.

 

To learn more about this agreement and the implications for the District, click here.