A key constructing at Santa Clara Valley Medical Middle has been named to honor Susie Wilson, the late Santa Clara County Supervisor who was a champion of the hospital all through her time in elected workplace — and even after it ended.
The Susanne B. Wilson Girls and Youngsters’s Middle was devoted Wednesday afternoon at a ceremony attended by members of Wilson’s household, elected officers from San Jose and Santa Clara County, a variety of Wilson’s former colleagues and workers members and VMC workers.
“When you leave here today, I hope that you find strength, as I do, in Susie’s example, and I hope that you find strength, as I do, in the battles that she fought and won to keep the doors of this hospital open to all,” Valley Well being Basis Government Director Michael Elliott mentioned. “Because that fight is now our fight and if she can win it, so can we.”
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Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg mentioned she has strived to construct on Wilson’s management by championing childcare and supporting the expansion of the general public hospital system.
“Susie got things done, whether it was keeping Valley Medical Center at a very precarious time or working collaboratively with her colleagues and community partners to secure funding for a much-needed apartment building for low-income families that would eventually carry her name,” Ellenberg mentioned. “I imagine Susie would be delighted to see the work being done here — including pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, labor and delivery — in a building that bears her name.”
A groundbreaking politician, Wilson is the third girl elected to the San Jose Metropolis Council and second to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, the place she served for 12 years earlier than leaving workplace in 1990. Two years after her election to the board, she was joined by Zoe Lofgren and Becky Morgan — giving the board a feminine majority for the primary time. After leaving the board, she helped discovered the group now often known as the Valley Well being Basis to boost cash for the county’s well being system, which has grown to 5 hospitals.
When Prop. 13 led to finances cuts on the county degree, Wilson fought to save lots of Valley Medical Middle and its social packages. Bob Brownstein, who was Wilson’s chief of workers for 12 years, mentioned when he got here into the workplace each Monday his job “was to make sure VMC was still open on Friday.”
The distinction has been within the works for greater than six years, and Elliott mentioned the COVID-19 pandemic, the growth of the hospital system and different points delayed the renaming ceremony.
In 2018, then-Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, former Supervisor Cindy Chavez and then-VMC Basis Government Director Chris Wilder, led the cost to call the constructing in Wilson’s honor. Regardless of her failing well being, Wilson attended the Nov. 6, 2018 assembly — coincidentally on Election Day — and acquired a standing ovation following the board’s unanimous approval. She died not lengthy afterward in December 2018 at age 90.
“I know at times this job is hard,” Wilson informed the board that November day. “Sometimes, it’s not easy to say no and sometimes we have to. But the most joyous time is to be able to say yes and to say yes to life and to love life.”
LASER DAYS OF WINTER: The Tech Interactive is hoping to usher in music followers to its IMAX dome theater by bringing in a laser present collection over the following few weekends. Though pairing tunes with colourful laser shows isn’t new — and it’s an everyday occasion on the De Anza Faculty planetarium — it’s the primary time for the Tech, which not too long ago has been augmenting its common academic IMAX programming with extra well-liked fare together with live performance movies and big-screen blockbusters.
The collection kicks off with a Led Zeppelin laser present at 8:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday (and you too can catch the documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin” with a separate ticket at 6 p.m. every of these days). The weekend wraps up with Billie Eilish and Girl Gaga exhibits on Sunday. Future artists featured embrace Taylor Swift on Valentine’s Day, Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Prince, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Queen and, after all, Pink Floyd.
Zoom over to www.thetech.org for the total schedule and tickets.
LISTEN UP: There’s been a giant response to a retreat Saturday morning being hosted by Westhope Presbyterian Church in Saratoga with John Phillip Newell and Cami Twilling. He’s a trainer and main advocate of Celtic spirituality and he or she’s the director of Colorado-based Earth & Soul, a Celtic initiative of examine, religious observe and compassionate motion. The retreat will deal with the themes in Newell’s new guide, “The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home.” When you’re intrigued, there could also be some spots remaining. Go to westhope.org for particulars.
And, in case your private quest entails listening to an amazing author, the South Bay Writers Membership has simply the reply. My colleague, Julia Prodis Sulek, will communicate on the group’s assembly Saturday morning on the Willow Glen Library sharing how she manages to seek out these particulars that make her tales so compelling. Get extra information on that 10:30 a.m. discuss at www.southbaywriters.com.
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