The meeting time was scheduled to allow hospital staff, as well as residents, to attend.
Longtime residents Arnold and Bonnie Hano plan to be there.
“We have a vested and human interest in the hospital,” he said.
Both the Hanos have been patients at the hospital.
“And my daughter was there for quite a while after she fractured her skull in a motorcycle accident,” Hano said. “We have always been happy with our treatment and the results.
“It is vital to Laguna to have a nonprofit, full-service hospital here.”
The Hanos were among the donors to the original South Coast Community Hospital, the need for which became a priority in Laguna after Police Officer Gordon G. French died in 1953 from gunshot wounds on the way to the nearest hospital.
Local donations and grants funded the construction on the 22-acre site, deeded to the hospital by the James Irvine Foundation.
The 74-bed facility opened July 1, 1959.
Adventist Health, a California nonprofit religious organization, has owned and operated the hospital for the past decade, claiming losses in excess of $55 million — considerably more than Mission’s bid of $37.5 million.
The proposed sale to Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center is Adventist’s second attempt to unload South Coast.
Terms of the sale, referred to as “a transaction,” were confidential until released by the attorney general’s office.
As laid out in the “Full Description of the Proposed Agreement and Transaction,” included in the 2-inch-thick folder of documents submitted to the state, South Coast Medical Center, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, will transfer substantially all of its assets to Mission, also a nonprofit public benefit corporation.
