Santa Clara County asks state to intervene over closure of Regional Medical Center’s trauma center

SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County officials, doctors and community members are imploring the state to intervene in HCA Healthcare’s decision to close Regional Medical Center’s trauma center and other life saving programs later this year — a move they say will lead to more deaths and worse outcomes for patients.

In February, HCA alerted the county of its plans to close Regional Medical Center’s level two trauma center, its STEMI program that treats patients suffering cardiac arrest and downgrade its stroke program on Aug.