Hospital board meets Wednesday

The elected board of the Sonoma Valley Hospital meets again this week, continuing its active engagement with the community over the two issues key to its survival. The October financial statements, available for public review at the hospital’s administrative offices, show that the operations continue to lose money, at about $200,000 a month. In the short term, this is covered by the revenue from the parcel tax, but it corroborates the concerns expressed by CEO Carl Gerlach that the hospital’s fortunes can’t hang on a new facility to be completed years hence.
Not that the development of that new facility is being deferred. Planning continues apace, and Gerlach is due to present the latest designs for the Carinelli site at Wednesday’s meeting, scheduled to start at 6 p.m. in the Community Center, Room 110. The meeting will be carried live on SVTV 27 on Comcast.