Volume 24 • No. 3 • March 2000
DeMerger to be official April 1
Dean search expected to give VP more time for clinical leadership
Home Care services to operate separately
Demerger to be official April 1
Profits and losses of UCSF, Stanford and Packard hospitals were no longer shared as of March 1, a prelude to the dismantling of the UCSF Stanford Health Care merger expected to be completed April 1.
Malinda Mitchell, chief operating officer of Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC), told the Stanford Medical Board on March 1 that the official date to dismantle the merger was postponed one month until April because Medi-Cal could not begin processing claims on behalf of the separate organizations before then.
Operations continued to run at a loss in February but a final audit will not be completed until later this year, Mitchell said.
Mitchell also explained that UCSF Stanford Health Care would continue to function as a corporate entity for several months, primarily to wrap up audits, accounts receivable and payable. A small staff will remain on duty at the organization's Candlestick Point office throughout this period.
Mitchell told the board that efforts to transfer employees back to the Stanford and Packard payrolls were being completed, mostly without the need for action by employees.
