The proposals come from a white paper on the 212-bed county-owned hospital released by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors. Other proposals in the white paper include:
- Gaining more Medi-Cal patients from private doctors, for as much as $3 million in additional income a year.
- Renegotiating maintenance and supply contracts for as much $500,000 in savings a year.
- Continuing cuts of nurses’ overtime, which began last December.
- Changing how Medi-Cal patients are billed, for a savings of several hundred thousand dollars a year.
Read the Tracy Press’ report on San Joaquin General Hospital.
