The Registered Nurses Professional Association said 97% of its members – whose contract expired Oct. 29 – voted to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached on union demands for better working conditions, pay raises and improved benefits.

All three hospitals in the Santa Clara County healthcare system received a “C” grade for ensuring patient safety in 2021 and 2022.

Santa Clara County received its first 5,850 doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine earlier this week.

Virgin of Guadalupe activities should be restricted to within the household or held virtually, county officials said.

Santa Clara County is gearing up for a surge of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout Silicon Valley.

Elected leaders team up with businesses to collect cash donations and desperately needed equipment for doctors and nurses.

As people adjust to life under lockdown, lawmakers from D.C. to City Hall have been working on ways to keep the economy moving. 

A total of $90 million in equipment and facility improvements have occurred or are taking place, the county reported.

Instead of moving the social services hub to downtown San Jose, the board opted to keep it at 591 N. King Road.

The $8.1 billion 2019-20 spending plan is nearly 16 percent bigger than last year’s, largely because the county acquired three new hospitals.

County officials pledged that its bid to buy St. Louise and O’Connor hospitals will not negatively affect services offered at the facilities.

The county has offered to buy the local hospitals as part of a bankruptcy reorganization by the facilities’ parent company.

The state attorney general's office will host public meetings this week on the contentious sale of six nonprofit hospitals—including two in Silicon Valley—to a multi-state, for-profit chain.

While the healthcare imbroglio meanders on in Congress, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is being forced to decide how to resolve California’s own healthcare crisis. The state ranks last nationwide in terms of medical coverage for low income residents. This means that poor people are forced to turn to emergency rooms for everything from undiagnosed cancers to the common cold and, as a result, more than half of state hospitals are operating in the red.