SV@Home Action Fund endorses Measure A to save our local hospitals. Measure A will raise funds to protect county health care in the face of the federal government’s devastating cuts. To pass Measure A, Santa Clara County voters will need to turn out for the Nov. 4th, 2025 special election and vote yes.
According to the County:
The loss of federal funding under H.R. 1 poses a grave threat to Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the County’s renowned health care and hospital system, which includes four public hospitals and fifteen health clinics that provide critical and life-saving care to hundreds of thousands of residents, regardless of insurance status.
Santa Clara Valley Healthcare operates two of only three trauma centers within Santa Clara County and is responsible for responding to 67% of all trauma activations in the county. In 2024, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, the County’s Level 1 trauma center, took care of more trauma patients than any other hospital in California. Overall, the County’s four hospitals are responsible for responding to nearly half of all emergency department visits in Santa Clara County at 750 visits per day.
Not to be confused with the 2016 Measure A (Santa Clara County’s successful measure to fund affordable housing), the new 2025 Measure A is a 5/8th of a cent sales tax which will raise about $330 million per year for five years. Obviously, that still doesn’t make up for approximately $1 billion (or more) in cuts the County is anticipating from the federal government’s devastating healthcare cuts. But we are going to do what we can to protect ourselves from this federal administration, and Measure A will help save lives.
Mail-in ballots will be sent to voters in early October, and the last day to register to vote is October 20th. So make sure you and everyone in your community are registered to vote today.