{"id":64165,"date":"2026-03-09T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-county-studies-impact-of-possible-rural-hospital-closure\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:30:07","slug":"santa-clara-county-studies-impact-of-possible-rural-hospital-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-county-studies-impact-of-possible-rural-hospital-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County studies impact of possible rural hospital closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County is forecasting additional stress on\u00a0its public health care system \u2014 the second largest in the state \u2014 if the only rural hospital in neighboring San Benito County closes. A January report from Santa Clara Valley Healthcare estimates the closure of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital \u2014 a 25-bed facility in Hollister \u2014 would strain the county\u2019s hospital system because the next closest emergency department is St. Louise Regional Hospital\u00a0in Gilroy. St. Louise operates at nearly two times the county\u2019s average of emergency department visits, officials said. If Hazel Hawkins closed, the report warns emergency department visits would rise&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-county-studies-impact-of-possible-rural-hospital-closure\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County is forecasting additional stress on\u00a0its public health care system \u2014 the second largest in the state \u2014 if the only rural hospital in neighboring San Benito County closes. A January report from Santa Clara Valley Healthcare estimates the closure of Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital \u2014 a 25-bed facility in Hollister \u2014 would &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}