A San Jose hospital wants to construct two new hospital wings in a more than 1 million-square-foot expansion to satisfy California earthquake mandates — but health care equity concerns are also rising to the surface. Patient advocates and leaders gathered outside Good Samaritan Hospital last month to protest what they said were health care inequities in East San Jose at Regional Medical Center. Now advocates like East San Jose Councilmember Peter Ortiz and retired state Sen. Jim Beall are calling for the Good Samaritan expansion to be put on pause in light of ongoing cuts and reductions to critical services…
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