Agmt 2014 Alameda County Medical Center

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HOSPITAL SERVICES GRANT AGREEMENT THIS HOSPITAL SERVICES GRANT AGREEMENT (this"Agreement") is made by and among the CITY OF SAN LEANDRO, CALIFORNIA, a municipal corporation of the State of California(the "City") and ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER,a public hospital authority created by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors pursuant to Section 101850 of the California Health and Safety Code, doing business as Alameda Health System ("AHS"). Each of AHS and City are referred to herein as a"Party" and together as the"Parties." RECITALS A. Sutter Health, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation ("Sutter")has agreed to donate to AHS the real property upon which the San Leandro Hospital, an acute care hospital located at 13855 East 14th Street, San Leandro,California, is located (the"Hospital")as well as certain intangible personal property used in connection with the operation of the Hospital and AHS has agreed to assume all liabilities associated with the operation of the Hospital, subject to certain conditions. B. The City wishes to promote the public health needs of the community and help insure the availability, especially for City residents,of adequate healthcare facilities within the City for emergency medical care and acute inpatient services. To those ends, the City is willing to provide financial support towards the availability of such services and operations at the Hospital, as approved and declared by the City Council for the City of San Leandro at its regular meeting of November 5, 2012, to wit: The City Council, by motion,indicated approval in principle of providing a financial subsidy of up to $1 Million a year for three years in support of San Leandro Hospital, and further authorized the City Manager to initiate time-limited negotiations with Alameda County Medical Center(ACMC) for the express purpose of reaching an agreement, subject to approval by the City Council, on the specific terms of a subsidy in the form of a payment directly to ACMC for the purpose of subsidizing the operations of an emergency department and acute inpatient services at the San Leandro Hospital for a period of not less than three years. C. The City and AHS believe that preserving access to the residents of the City to acute care hospital and emergency room services is in the public's interests of health, welfare and safety, and for those reasons,the Parties enter into this Agreement. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the undertakings set forth in this Agreement,the parties hereto agree as follows: 1