April 8, 2003:

Tenet announced that they would keep our Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital open indefinitely. Less than nine months later here we are again.

January 28th 2004:

Tenet announced plans to sell or close more than 27 hospitals in the United States, 19 in the Southern California region, 15 in Los Angeles County! There are no guarantees that all of these hospitals will sell and/or stay open. Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital and its ER are on the list.

We are the closest hospital to LAX, which is the Number One terrorist target in the State of California. Together in Phase I, we made history by Saving Our Marina Hospital from closure. We will make history again in Phase II with THE PLAN of action, that calls for conversion of our hospital to community ownership.

We CAHRE (Community Action for Healthcare Reform and Education) was created to continue the work of SOMH (Save Our Marina Hospital). We CAHRE is about helping to save lives. We care about your health and our children’s health care future!

We CAHRE has applied for a 501(c)3 designation to be the non-profit, public benefit corporate arm of SOMH.

We CAHRE's mission has had two goals since our inception:

• To educate and export our SOMH experience to others in need across the country in order to help them protect their healthcare delivery systems, saving lives and vital health care jobs from for-profit hospital corporations.
• To follow THE PLAN to take over ownership, operations and management of the Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital on behalf of the community, in anticipation of Tenet's plans to abandon the hospital, emergency room and medical office building.

We have the full cooperation of legislators, medical staff, hospital employees, and the community who strongly back our crusade. We CAHRE will create a model health center for Los Angeles and for the nation. Our team of healthcare professionals and community leaders will continue their two year campaign to reinstate this hospital to its former non-profit status. The results will improve Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital's efforts to serve the community and its rapidly growing population.

Projections indicate that there will be six million more residents in Los Angeles by the year 2025, a dramatic increase that will require 66% more acute care beds beyond what now exist in Los Angeles. Source: Solucient Studies 2002.

Tenet's decision to divest itself of its community hospitals, including ours, will result in a higher morbidity rate in the community. Without our Marina Hospital, residents requiring ER care may die while enroute to a more distant hospital and that is a tragic possibility! The even more distant Westside hospitals will not have the bed or ER capacity to handle the flood of patients. Most likely, many physicians will be unable to continue to practice in this area due to the lack of hospital beds!

HOW YOU CAN HELP

We CAHRE is seeking donations to fund the analysis and planning necessary to formulate an acquisition and operation plan for the hospital. THE PLAN will provide sufficient funds for acquiring the hospital, ensuring its operations during the transition, and provide the reserves necessary for proper stability and steady growth.

It will require a few years to complete the transition, and funds must be set aside formajor equipment upgrading and careful program additions to fit the growing needs of our community. Seismic retrofitting will also be a part of the capital improvement portion of THE PLAN

Here's an opportunity for each and every member of our caring community to participate and take pride in the future development of our Marina Hospital. If ever there was a time to donate generously to a cause so vital to our well being, it is now. With all of your help and hearts we will achieve this monumental challenge together.

Please contact us through our website, www.somh.org to add yourself to our email database (so we can keep you informed) and visit our website daily for updated information. You can reach us by phone at 310.306.1487.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HELPING TO MAKE HISTORY

Julie Inouye Executive Director and Founder We CAHRE (Community Action for Healthcare Reform and Education) SOMH (Save Our Marina Hospital) JulieInouye@WeCAHRE.org

PLEASE MAKE CONTRIBUTION CHECKS* PAYABLE TO: We CAHRE P. O. Box 5393Playa del Rey, CA. 90296 *Tax deductible status of contributions is contingent upon the applied for Section 501(c)(3) status approval. (There is no guarantee of deductibility until the Internal Revenue Service notifies We CAHRE of its exempt status).