Interesting story in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Children's Hospital in Oakland California lost its effort to get the public to support building a new hospital. Lots of missteps that ultimately led to a "no" vote.

Good news is that the Hospital Chair presented an apology for a variety of non-community building approaches to getting their plan approved. It's good to see the public step forward and say "hey, we were left out and you were presumptuous" and force the hospital to go revisit its plans and more importantly, its communications. Nonprofit hospitals are, in theory, products of the people (whether that is in reality a fact is another matter). This is a good example of people at least standing up to the hospital.

It's also good to see the Board Chair deliver the message. The board should own this overall but I hope there's conversation about who really is responsible and of course, consequences. Where was staff in all this -- did they fail the board -- or did the board approve the whole plan? Questions to be asked and answered.