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Press release
Chinese Hospital, Brown & Toland Meet in Mayor’s Office – Talks to Continue City Has Joined 100-Year-Old Hospital to Demand that Medical Group Giant Cease Unfair Business Practices that Threaten Chinese Community SAN FRANCISCO - Representatives of the Chinese Hospital Health System and the medical group Brown & Toland met today in the office of Mayor Gavin Newsom in an effort to settle its differences over Brown & Toland's efforts to recruit Chinese Hospital doctors out of its system. The meeting follows actions taken by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, and the San Francisco City Attorney on Monday - both aimed at forcing to Brown & Toland to stop its predatory business practices. While no progress was announced at the end of today's meeting, both parties agreed to continue talks. On Monday, City Attorney Dennis Herrerra joined Chinese Hospital, together with its affiliated physicians' association and health maintenance organization, in filing a civil lawsuit against Brown & Toland Medical Group for unfair business practices, unlawful restraint of trade, group boycott, intentional interference with contract and conspiracy to monopolize the market for services by managed care physicians and inpatient hospitals. The civil action filed details efforts by Brown & Toland to coerce doctors affiliated with Chinese Hospital into "exclusive dealing commitments" so as to monopolize the market for physician services, and potentially shut down San Francisco's last independent private hospital, which has provided culturally competent care to San Francisco's Chinese community for more than a century. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution stating that the Brown & Toland's attempts to force Chinese Hospital doctors to resign are anticompetitive, will significantly weaken the Chinese Hospital and its integrated health care system, and are bad for the community as a whole. The ability of the Chinese American and immigrant community to access culturally competent health care, including bilingual doctors, may hang in the balance. "It's ironic that a century after Chinese Hospital was established to alleviate some of the ills associated with discrimination, our community now faces a new form of discrimination in health care," CEO Yee said. "It could be just as devastating." About the Chinese Hospital Health System Chinese Hospital Association, Chinese Community Health Care Association and Chinese Community Health Plan form the Chinese Hospital Health System, which exists to deliver quality health care in a cost-effective manner, is responsive to the community's ethnic and cultural uniqueness and, is accessible to all socioeconomic levels. For more information or to schedule an interview with Brenda Yee, CEO, Chinese Hospital; Richard Loos, CEO, Chinese Community Health Plan; or Dr. SW Chan, board member of the Chinese Community Health Care Association and Chinese Community Health Plan, please contact Duane Oshinomi, director of Chinese Hospital Health System, at (415) 677-2493. ###
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