Santa Clara County is gearing up for a surge of patients as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout Silicon Valley.

Elected leaders team up with businesses to collect cash donations and desperately needed equipment for doctors and nurses.

As people adjust to life under lockdown, lawmakers from D.C. to City Hall have been working on ways to keep the economy moving. 

The Registered Nurses Professional Association says the deal will close the pay gap between county and private health facilities.

A total of $90 million in equipment and facility improvements have occurred or are taking place, the county reported.

Instead of moving the social services hub to downtown San Jose, the board opted to keep it at 591 N. King Road.

The $8.1 billion 2019-20 spending plan is nearly 16 percent bigger than last year’s, largely because the county acquired three new hospitals.

Two unions repping nurses in the expanded county-run hospital system are at odds over differing interpretations of a labor-relations law.

Tensions between the county and a local nurses union hit a flash point today, when the union called a one-day strike at two local hospitals.

The hospitals acquired by the county this month offer new stability, but they also come with a hefty price tag for local taxpayers.