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Critics Say Plan To Save Laguna Honda Motivated By Politics
December 9, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--The following five paragraphs are excerpts from a story in the San Francisco Business Times:

Gerald Scott has been a resident at Laguna Honda Hospital for roughly half his life, ever since he was jumped and severely beaten as a young man 25 years ago. Now he hopes to leave.

Against a national trend -- and the urging of a range of patient advocates and health-care experts -- the city is moving forward with rebuilding Laguna Honda, its city-run nursing home for the poor.

Critics say it's more about politics than patient care, and compare the process to a runaway train barreling down the tracks.

"Other cities aren't building nursing homes, they're closing them," said a health-care consultant familiar with the niche, who contends the Laguna Honda rebuild is primarily motivated by a desire to preserve relatively high-paying union positions.

"It's not about care. It's about jobs."

Entire article:
"The $600M question" (San Francisco Business Times)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/05/red/1209k.htm
Related:
"Laguna Honda Hospital -- Largest Nursing Home In US" (Inclusion Daily Express Archives)
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/institutions/ca/lagunahonda.htm

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