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When A Hospital Crumbles

by Gina Bermea

32 pages; Saddle stitched; Color pictures, Scapbook; catalogue #05-1020; ISBN 1-4120-6119-9; US$17.50, C$20.00, EUR14.50, £10.00

San Jose Medical Center was a Trauma Hospital. These are the emotions of the staff and what they went through. A hospital that was a family, it no longer exists.

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San Jose Medical Centre is a general, acute care hospital with a licensed bed capacity of 328. Since 1923, the downtown San Jose Medical Center campus has been an integral provider of healthcare in Santa Clara County. In addition to providing general acute care services, San Jose Medical Center is recognized for its ability to treat high-risk cases and serve the increasingly diverse populations of central and eastern Santa Clara Valley.

San Jose Medical Center’s services and programs include inpatient and outpatient surgery, a skilled nursing facility, a rehabilitation center, a Cancer Care Institute, cardiovascular services, and a Family Practice Residency Program in cooperation with Stanford University Medical School.

A leader in trauma services for well over a decade, San Jose Medical Centre is also the busiest trauma center in Santa Clara County and is verified by the American College of Surgeons. Th e trauma center is supported by helicopter service, drawing from many surrounding counties and is equipped with an on-campus helipad.

With a busy emergency service, San Jose Medical Centre also offers high quality diagnostic services; superior surgical programs, including open heart surgery; and patient focused nursing care from our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit through general medical-surgical nursing and into our on-site skilled nursing facility and acute rehabilitation center.

San Jose Medical Centre offers a full-range of rehabilitation services and has consistently been a leader in this field. Rehabilitation services include physical and occupational therapy, orthopedic rehabilitation, and speech and cognition services. The Easy Street program provides a unique “real life” environment in which patients can relearn day-to-day tasks such as grocery shopping and driving a car.

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About the Author

I was born into a big family. I come from a family of seven kids. You know we kept our parents busy. Our house was the corner house that everybody stopped by. There were only three blocks in our whole area. We had a blast. How our parents survived us I just don’t know. We did a lot of dangerous things as a kid that you can’t do now. Riding mini bikes and driving real fast on the street, with no helmet on. Riding bikes with no hands, going down hill real fast that was fun. Our parents had to take us to the hospital a lot. We were bad. I think we needed a Trauma Center then. Our family keeps growing. My parents I think now have 35 grandchildren. It just keeps getting bigger. When our immediate family gets together there is never enough room. We are a very close family. I thank God everyday for my family to keep them safe. My other family is the employees at San Jose Medical Center Hospital. I am an ER/ICU Tech. I enjoyed going to work. My co-workers were the best. It was a great Trauma Hospital. They were one in a million. It will never be the same again.

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