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A geographic area code split had been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) which would install area code 831 for a new numbering plan area comprising the communities of Santa Cruz, Salinas, Monterey, and Hollister. Area code 408 would be retained in Sunnyvale, San Jose, Los Gatos, and Gilroy.
The campus and hospital were founded at its present location in 1876 by Dr. Benjamin Cory, the Director of Public Health. Founded as the County Hospital, it was the first organized hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. The current campus continues to sit at the very same spot where the original hospital was constructed in the 19th century.
This is a list of hospitals in San Jose, California. [1] Good Samaritan Hospital; Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center; Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center; O'Connor Hospital; Regional Medical Center of San Jose; San Jose Medical Center; Santa Clara Valley Medical Center; Stanford Hospital and Clinics; Forest Surgery Center LP ...
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."
In 1953, O'Connor Hospital moved to its present site on Forest Avenue, [2] the original hospital was subsequently demolished 2 years later in 1955. [3] As of 2020, O'Connor Hospital is a 358-bed acute care facility offering inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical and specialty programs to more than 1 million residents of San Jose. [4]
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 ]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaiser San Jose was the center of a large coronavirus breakout on Christmas Day 2020, which resulted in more than 100 positive cases and 1 staff death, [6] [7] one of the largest outbreaks in the Bay Area. [8] The Santa Clara County Health Department fined the hospital $85,000 for delays in reporting the outbreak ...
San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around 1.95 million residents in 2023. [18] San Jose is notable for its innovation, cultural diversity, [19] affluence, [20] and sunny and mild Mediterranean climate. [21]