Why is the El Camino Hospital District buying land in San Jose, we are taxed in this area and it seems wrong to build and operated hospitals outside the district area. They seem to be out of control, high pay for the management and now a second hospital planned outside of the area, Los Gatos was the first and should be sold.

I'm new to the area, but why are we even being taxed for the hospital? Was the tax meant to be something to help the hospital get started? How much longer do we have to pay this tax? Isn't the hospital self-sufficient by now and able to survive off what it charges for services? I think it's strange that taxpayers are still supporting the hospital. I'd rather give my tax dollars to the MV public schools. I think they need the money more.

Fascinating--a profitable corporation continues to require public support while it expands to unrelated areas! If profitable enough to buy millions of dollars worth of other properties, shouldn't it be paying back the taxpayers that made its first investment? One of the worst (and universal) motivations among humans is that more is always better. Me first, me first, us first, us first. Just plain stupid.

Maybe El Camino Hospital plans to use this new site to offer services that are currently unavailable in this County? As of today, there are zero hospital beds for anyone under 18 who needs to be hospitalized for any mental health reason in SCC despite this being the number one reason for hospitalization of youth across California (according to Stanford's KidsData site). As we have seen with the murder in our jail and the teen suicides, this zero treatment situation has had devasting results in our community. El Camino Hospital has shown a commitment to improving behavioral health for youth through its Aspire program and fundraising through its Fulfilling the Promise campaign. I hope that this purchase means that El Camino is considering offering the youth inpatient mental health services our county so desperately needs.

A new hospital facility with fewer licensed beds was constructed in Mt.View and open in 2009. Retrofitting the original tower was determined to be financially and logistically impractical, yet the tower remains intact. Rather than spending $24 million on acquiring new land, couldn't it be spent on expanding the existing Mt.View site? Long term community members who HAVE been paying taxes to support this hospital district experience long wait times in the Emergency Department because there are no beds available to immediately treat them; yet patients from outlying areas are transported by ambulance and get seen immediately. The psychiatric patients are spending more time the the ED because there are no beds for their special needs. It takes many years for a new facility to be operational.The problem is URGENT and needs resolution now.

Great!!! People don't have to drive all the way to Mountain View to go to the hospital.

We are taxed to support the hospital district not the hospital. They are two separate entities.
The hospital is purchasing the property and expanding access. Not the district.
People are not even reading the article. Expanding access to and for the community will only strengthen El Camino Hospital as an already valuable asset to Mountain View and all communities it serves.

Why do we continue to allow building without the infrastructure to support additional traffic. Shouldn't taxes payers and residence have some say before conglomerations are allowed to build? First Costco ad now this!!!

What can we do to repeal the parcel tax?

I live within a mile of this purchased site, and wonder about the viability of building a new hospital within a couple of miles of one of the larger Kaiser hospitals in Northern California which currently has offices across the street from these lots.

Not everyone goes to Kaiser...would rather have an organization with a great community reputation rather than another Kaiser. I was born at old El Camino Hospital and still live in Mountain View, I support their expansion and believe that they will be a great asset for the residents in and around the purchased land. It could have been worse, at least the land wasn't purchased by Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google.