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The Santa Clara County Public Health Department (abbreviated SCCPHD; also known as Santa Clara County Public Health or the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department) is the public health agency for Santa Clara County, California, part of the Santa Clara County Health System.
The Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System was established in 1993. It became the Santa Clara County Health System in March 2019 after the county acquired O'Connor Hospital, Saint Louise Regional Hospital, and DePaul Health Center (now VHC Morgan Hill) from Verity Health System to prevent the hospitals' closure. [2]
In 1965, Dr. Raymond Ligouri opened the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at St. John's Hospital—it was the first CCU in Ventura County and the third in Southern California. [4] In 1985, Sister of Mercy Carmen Rodriguez opened the doors of St. John's Community Outreach Program, known today as Health Ministries.
The Santa Clara Valley Healthcare system — which is second only to L.A. County's as the largest county-run health system in California — includes Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, O'Connor ...
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An enlargeable map of the 58 counties of the state of California. This is a list of hospitals in California (), grouped by county and sorted by hospital name. In healthcare in California, only a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, as licensed by the California Department of Public Health, can be referred to as a "hospital."
Santa Clara County acquired the hospital, from Veritas over the objections of state Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a deal that closed on February 28, 2019. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The transfer of operations was a result of a $235 million bankruptcy Verity Health System's , the hospitals operator at the time, was facing.
The Hazardous Waste Control Act of 1972 [3] established legal standards for hazardous waste. Accordingly, in 1972, the Department of Health Services (now called the California Health and Human Services Agency) created a hazardous waste management unit, staffing it in 1973 with five employees concerned primarily with developing regulations and setting fees for the disposal of hazardous waste.