Ortiz ultimately voted to support the environmental review and rezoning to allow the new Good Samaritan buildings because he said he needed to do what's right for healthcare in the whole community.
Green said the council should have required the company to work with residents and advocates to come up with a plan to restore services and "create a patient protection fund, which is a very reasonable and fair ask given the harm that's been caused."
"Your decision today is about protecting the patients that rely on Good Sam, a vital community resource, and enabling us to meet the state mandated 2030 earthquake compliance deadline," Jackie Van Blaricum, the head of HCA's Far West division, told the council.
"While we may not see eye to eye on everything, surely we can agree that losing an entire hospital's services is not in the community's best interest," she said.
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