DATE: February 20, 2024
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Fire Chief
SUBJECT
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Adopt a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Accept and Appropriate $2,000,000 in Grant Funding from the California Department of Health Care Services For the Construction of a Subacute Facility for Senior and Medically Fragile Persons at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That Council adopts a resolution (Attachment II) authorizing the City Manager to accept and appropriate $2,000,000 in grant funding from the California Department of Health Care Services for renovations at St. Rose Hospital for the development of a new sub-acute care facility for the senior and medically fragile population in Hayward.
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SUMMARY
The City of Hayward has partnered with St. Rose Hospital to seek funding to renovate a portion of the hospital to create a subacute facility to serve senior citizens and the medically fragile population of Hayward.
Subacute care is defined as comprehensive inpatient care designed for someone who does not require hospital acute care but has an acute illness, injury, or exacerbation of a disease process that requires more intensive care than is provided to patients in a general nursing facility. Subacute patients are medically fragile and require special services, such as inhalation therapy, tracheotomy care, intravenous care, tube feeding, and complex wound management care.
Currently, there are no subacute facilities in this region of the County, and therefore there is a huge demand for such. Because there are no subacute facilities in this region, many patients treated at St. Rose end up staying longer even though they do not require acute hospital care, because there are no nursing homes able to facilitate their care.
With the use of the requested funding, St. Rose Hospital will be able to create a subacute treatment center that can care for approximately 30 patients at a time. This critical investment benefits every system in the region, enabling St. Rose to efficiently provide more service to those who most need it.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment I Staff Report
Attachment II Resolution