Planned Parenthood Golden Gate Loses Affiliation - The Bay Citizen

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate Loses Affiliation - The Bay Citizen: Planned Parenthood Golden Gate will be a Planned Parenthood no more as of Sept. 3. A week ago, the board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America voted to revoke the trademark. “They were not meeting our standards for administrative and fiscal management,” said Karen Ruffato, vice president of affiliate services for the national organization.

The California state budget quagmire is adding to the pain, since, starting this month, PPGG will not get reimbursements from the state for Medi-Cal until a state budget is approved, which could take weeks or months. Some of the current crisis has been of PPGG's own making. Over the past three to four years Planned Parenthood was not as attentive to its financial situation as it should have been. The result is the organization now finds itself in a desperate financial circumstance.

Editor: Hmmmm. I thought PP was so solvent. This also shows how important the bottom line is to PP.

Story continues: Without the Planned Parenthood affiliation, PPGG currently plans to keep running its clinics in Hayward, Oakland, San Francisco, San Rafael, Rohnert Park and San Mateo. The service is now holding a contest among its staff to come up with a new name.