Santa Clara County leaders are calling on state officials to stop a for-profit hospital from closing one of the county’s only trauma centers. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to send a report to the state on the impact of closing Regional Medical Center’s trauma center in East San Jose. County hospitals have just under four months to prepare for the shockwave of changes, which become effective Aug. 12. The public hospital system is already running at capacity and being forced to transfer patients to other hospitals — largely because of service reductions that have already occurred at…
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