{"id":52525,"date":"2024-08-08T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/ex-san-jose-official-lobbies-for-private-hospital-she-spoke-out-against\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:12:45","slug":"ex-san-jose-official-lobbies-for-private-hospital-she-spoke-out-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/ex-san-jose-official-lobbies-for-private-hospital-she-spoke-out-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-San Jose official lobbies for private hospital she spoke out against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magdalena Carrasco, a former San Jose councilmember, once joined protests against one company\u2019s hold over health care on the East Side. Today she\u2019s helping behemoth HCA Healthcare make its most criticized move yet. Carrasco, who left office in 2022 after serving two terms as East San Jose\u2019s representative, now lobbies city officials and her former colleagues on behalf of HCA, which owns Regional Medical Center \u2014 the only hospital in East San Jose. The company plans to cut trauma, stroke and heart attack care at Regional\u00a0while expanding\u00a0Good Samaritan Hospital which serves the wealthier West Valley. The Nashville-based company needed a&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/ex-east-san-jose-councilmember-official-magdalena-carrasco-lobbies-for-private-hospital-she-spoke-out-against-hca-healthcare-regional-medical-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magdalena Carrasco, a former San Jose councilmember, once joined protests against one company\u2019s hold over health care on the East Side. Today she\u2019s helping behemoth HCA Healthcare make its most criticized move yet. Carrasco, who left office in 2022 after serving two terms as East San Jose\u2019s representative, now lobbies city officials and her former &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-52525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english","tag-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.9 (Yoast SEO v24.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ex-San Jose official lobbies for private hospital she spoke out against - VietValley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/ex-san-jose-official-lobbies-for-private-hospital-she-spoke-out-against\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-San Jose official lobbies for private hospital she spoke out against\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Magdalena Carrasco, a former San Jose councilmember, once joined protests against one company\u2019s hold over health care on the East Side. 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