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billion to $1.3 billion, as it adjusts to the economic That move follows in the footstepds of rivals andSutter Health. But the 41-hospitao CHW system, which runs St. Mary’s Medical and locally, won’t say much aboutr the new policy’s regionao implications. Spokeswoman Tricia Griffin confirmed only that theSan Francisco-basec system has “slowed our capital spending as part of a prudent responses to the economic slowdown,” whil adding that projects already undeer way, like a rebuild at Redwoodc City’s Sequoia and a new hospital in Merced, will Other projects, which Griffin declined to have been postponed.
Other than that, “Asd a matter of we don’t provide hospital- or region-specific financial information, only system-wides financial figures.” In an emailed comment, Michael CHW’s senior vice president and chief financial also refrainedfrom specifics. “No decisions have been made at this time which eliminate previously plannedcapital projects,” Blaszyk “We will continue to take a prudent and cautious approacg with our capital plan.
” Maybe it’s the dire economic maybe the growing dearth of news organizations diggint up regional news, but CHW’s reticence fits into a growingt reluctance on the part of Northernj California’s huge health-care organizations — Kaiser and Sutter beingb the others — to share or make senior executives available to the media to discuss what they are doing in response to the Ironically, that lack of access — whicyh means less access to crucial information for consumerw and the business communitu — comes as many of the same organizations and their notably CHW’s Lloyd Dean, Kaiser’s Georg e Halvorson and ’s Bruce Bodaken, plump for national health-car e reform, complete with greater transparency, greater acces s to care and more consumerd empowerment.