On March 10th, the day before Tom Hanks announced that he had
tested positive for covid-19, I drove my three-year-old
daughter to her day care in Berkeley, California. The drive took
us up College Avenue, where white-haired professors huddled at
sidewalk café tables; we passed the fraternity houses where
students gathered on the lawns. Just a few blocks from my
daughter’s school, there’s a coffee shop with a clientele split
equally between students and senior citizens.
During this challenging phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s
important to publicly acknowledge the tremendous partnership
between the Santa Cruz County Public Health Division and our area
hospitals. Dignity Health Dominican Hospital and Watsonville
Community Hospital have both played vital roles in continuing the
provide quality care to our community and are stepping up again
even as they strain under the worst days of
pandemic. (santacruzsentinel.com)
Tahoe Forest Health System is pleased to share that Tahoe Forest
Hospital has been named a recipient of the 2020 California Opioid
Care Honor Roll by Cal Hospital Compare. Tahoe Forest Hospital
was among 53 California hospitals recognized for their progress
in addressing the opioid epidemic.(sierrasun.com)
A team from the Department of Defense arrived Tuesday, and will
soon provide some relief to the overwhelmed hospital system.
“Their mission is to increase the number of ICU beds available in
this case at CRMC, which does have the capacity to increase. They
just need the staffing and that’s what this will do,” says Fresno
County EMS director Dan Lynch. (ABC30.com)
A Salinas hospital received an early holiday gift on December 11
— an ultra-cold freezer that could store the Pzifer COVID-19
vaccine.
Freezers that can maintain ultra-cold temperatures like the minus
94 degrees Fahrenheit needed for the vaccine are in short supply,
so the hospital got a loan from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, as
reported by KPIX. (SFGate.com)
