California-based for-profit company Halsen Healthcare Group
announced Monday it has completed its purchase of the Watsonville
Community Hospital.
The purchase follows the Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust’s
decision in August not to purchase the hospital from its previous
owner, Quorum Health. Halsen Healthcare purchased the hospital
for $30 million. (Northbaybusinessjournal.com)
One thing will make veteran real estate developer Larry Wasem
drop everything and head to Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital.
It’s an on-call job with no pay. And it’s a far cry from his
decades-long work as managing partner at Airport Business Center,
which has numerous properties throughout Sonoma County.
It’s the opportunity to cuddle an inconsolable baby in the
neonatal intensive care unit. (Northbaybusinessjournal.com)
Over the past two months, Oakland-based Bay Area Community
Services and Kaiser Permanente say they’ve found
housing with social support services for more than
250 homeless individuals, and there’s more to
come. (Bizjournals.com)
Dignity Health Memorial Hospital has received the Pathways to
Excellence Re-Designation, a worldwide credential that emphasizes
Memorial Hospital’s commitment to creating a healthy work
environment for nurses to feel empowered and appreciated.
(Bakersfield.com)
Valley Children’s Healthcare launched a new partnership today to
address one of the most significant healthcare needs in the
region.
Universal Health Services (UHS) will construct and operate the
new 81,600 square foot, 128-bed behavioral health hospital, which
will provide accessible, high-quality and advanced
behavioral health services in the Central Valley. (Press Release)
Bakersfield Heart Hospital will become the first hospital in the
Central Valley to offer a new lung valve treatment for patients
with severe COPD/emphysema.
The Endoscopic Lung Volume Reduction surgery is a minimally
invasive procedure to help emphysema/COPD sufferers breathe
easier without major surgery, according to Bakersfield Heart
Hospital. (KBAK/KBFX)
Sierra View Medical Center will begin constructing a new skilled
nursing facility in 2020.
In a statement issued by the hospital on Tuesday, the Sierra View
District which manages the hospital has decided to replace the
existing 35-bed distinct part skilled nursing faclity now located
within the Sierra View Medical Center. (The Porterville
Recorder)
Mee Memorial has announced it will be opening a new
clinic in Greenfield in September 7. The new clinic will
offer services that include primary care, pediatrics, obstetrics
and gynecology, podiatry and lab services, with radiology to be
added in the coming months. (KION)
Rural hospital closures increase patient mortality by nearly
six percent, but urban closures have no measurable impact on
patient outcomes, according to
a study published by the National Bureau of
Economic Research.
(Becker’s Hospital Review)
California’s Department of Public Health will move dozens of
permanent beds from a long-term residential program at Zuckerberg
San Francisco General Hospital to a short-term program in another
part of the hospital. (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Valley Children’s extracorporeal life support (ECLS) program has
received international recognition from the Extracorporeal Life
Support Organization (ELSO) as a Silver Level ELSO Award
recipient. (The Business Journal)
Adventist Health could soon be allowed to set up an emergency
room in Paradise.
A bill carving out an exception from the state rule forbidding
free-standing emergency rooms for Feather River Hospital is
expected to come to a final vote in the state legislature soon.
(Chico Enterprise-Record)
Adventist Health Hanford is one of only 22 out of 514 hospitals
across 40 states to receive an “Excellence in Patient Safety
Across the Board Award” from a leading healthcare
improvement company. (HanfordSentinel.com)
UCSF Medical Center has been recognized among the nation’s elite
hospitals in U.S. News & World Report’s 2019-2020 Best
Hospitals survey, marking the 21st year that UCSF Health has been
listed among the top 10 hospitals in the prestigious listings.
(UCSF.org)
Among other after-effects of destructive flames that burned the
Feather River Adventist Medical Center, the Camp Fire has changed
another aspect of life in Butte County — where to give birth in
the region. (Chico Enterprise-Record)
Sacramento County and Dignity Health are undertaking an $18.7
million effort to relieve pressure on the region’s psychiatric
hospitals by opening a facility at Mercy San Juan Medical Center
that will treat patients in behavioral health crisis for up to 23
hours. (The Sacramento Bee)
Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital, a freestanding acute psychiatric
hospital in Santa Rosa, is growing in a health care segment that
historically has been shrinking.
Aurora, which currently has 95 licensed beds, is adding another
49. And construction is underway on a building expansion that
will double the size of Aurora’s outpatient program, adding 3,500
square feet. (North Bay Business Journal)
A local hospital has received a new accreditation for critical
brain injury and stroke specialty programs that help patients
regain many of the skills lost from brain damage.
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula received its
three-year accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of
Rehabilitation Facilities International, a nonprofit
organization. The designation applies to the hospital’s Inpatient
Rehabilitation Unit, which now provides care for neurological
conditions as well as rehabilitation for other injuries and
illnesses. (Monterey Herald)
For patients and doctors alike, one of the main concerns before
and after surgery has become the prescription and subsequent
dependency on opioid-based painkillers, and it’s resulting big
changes to the surgical process.
Adventist Health Ukiah Valley received the American Heart
Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines
– Stroke Honor Roll Gold Quality Achievement Award. This award
recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients
receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally
recognized, research-based guidelines on the latest scientific
evidence. (The Ukiah Daily Journal)
Adventist Health in the Central Valley received eight Energy to
Care Awards from the American Society for Health Care Engineering
(AHSE) for reducing energy use and freeing up resources to
support patient care. Adventist Health medical offices in
Coalinga, Fowler, Hanford, Home Garden, Huron, Madera and Selma,
as well as Adventist Health’s Kerr Outpatient Center in Hanford,
received recognition. (The Sentinel)
Kaiser Permanente has helped usher about 300 homeless seniors off
the streets of Oakland and into stable housing over the past six
months — a milestone that means the healthcare giant is more than
halfway to its ultimate goal. (The Mercury News)
UC Davis Health is entering into a $1.8 million partnership with
the American Medical Association to boost the number of
physicians in rural Northern California. (Sacramento
Business Journal)
In recognition of its expertise in serving adults with congenital
heart disease (CHD), Sutter Medical
Center, Sacramento earned accreditation from the Adult
Congenital Heart Association (ACHA), a nationwide organization
focused on connecting patients, family members and healthcare
providers to form a community of support and a network of experts
with knowledge of CHD. It is the third accredited adult
congenital heart disease (ACHD) program
in California and the first in the
greater Sacramento region. (Cision PR Newswire)
Trauma survivors met and thanked those who saved their lives at
Mercy Medical Center in Redding during the first ever Trauma
Survivor Luncheon on Monday.
Emergency room doctors, nurses, surgeons and paramedics all
showed up to interact and meet some of the people who’s lives
they’ve saved over the years. (7 KRCR News)
Balloons adorned the newly installed signs at Adventist Health
Tulare.
Parking lots were nearly full Wednesday morning as the hospital
officially welcomed its new name and a new era for the Tulare
Local Health Care District.
A ceremony celebrated the finalization of the lease to
Adventist Health and the approval of the name switch to Adventist
Health Tulare. (Visalia Times Delta)
Who needs a dog when you can pet a 12-foot Burmese python?
About 50 young patients at the Sutter Medical Center children’s
center in Sacramento got an up-close look at the snake, an adult
alligator, a porcupine, a penguin and other critters Thursday
morning, when “animal ambassadors” from SeaWorld San Diego came
for a visit. (The Sacramento Bee)
Eastern Plumas Healthcare in Portola has a new CEO on board as of
Jan. 3, and Todd Plimpton took a moment recently to introduce
himself to the community. (Plumas News)
Marshall Medical Center’s longtime CEO James Whipple is
set to depart after nearly four decades with the hospital.
Whipple has led Placerville-based Marshall Medical for the last
16 years, and has spent 38 years with the hospital across his
career. Previous to becoming CEO, he was the chief financial
officer of the medical center. (Sacramento Business
Journal)
Kaiser Permanente’s Thrive Local initiative comes as more health
systems are attempting to tackle social determinants of health
and cut down on accompanying high medical utilization costs.
(HealthcareDive)
Ginny Pacheco is one of the many residents who lived on Wheeler
Road who comes back regularly to visit the spot where her home
once stood. The entire neighborhood was decimated by the Camp
Fire in November.
Since then, much of the debris has been cleared out.
“This is probably the last time I’ll see it,” Pacheco said. “Next
time I come up, all of this will be gone.” (Fox 40)
Sutter Health today announced the June 3 opening
of Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation’s (SPMF) Van
Ness and Geary medical office building (or MOB) at 1100 Van
Ness Ave. The building, owned by Pacific Medical Buildings, is a
10-story, 250,000 sq. ft. facility located across the street
from Sutter’s new CPMC Van Ness Campus hospital,
which opened in March. More than 120 specialty physicians and
clinicians from the Sutter Health network will occupy five floors
of the building in the heart of San Francisco.
Preliminary figures released Wednesday from the biennial
point-in-time count of the nation’s homeless population show that
the number of homeless in Marin decreased by 7% between January
2019 and January 2017. (Marin Independent Journal)
The Sonoma Valley Hospital recently received certification as
being “acute stroke ready” by the Center for Improvement in
Healthcare Quality. The hospital received the certification based
on its level of care – including its swift response and
application of appropriate medication, according to SVH
officials. (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
Children with autism will now have a better experience when it
comes to taking in the beauty, fun, and education of Fresno
Chaffee Zoo.
Together with Valley Children’s hospital, the zoo is launching
‘George’s Pass’, a program that will make the zoo more accessible
and an inclusive place for families who have a child with
autism. (ABC30 Action News)
Is it possible something as simple as a special cleanser could
save a patient from getting a health care-associated infection?
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to
test the theory. It examined chlorhexidine (CHG), an
antimicrobial cleansing agent used primarily to bathe patients
hospitalized in the intensive care unit, to see if it could
prevent health care–associated infections (HAIs), particularly
antibiotic-resistant staph infections, known as MRSAs, or
“superbugs.” (NorthBay Business Journal)
Enloe medical staff unveiled its new cutting-edge robotics
program, allowing local surgeons to offer the most up-to-date
surgical techniques. (ActionNewsNow)
Amid fears of “The Big One” and citing the need for earthquake
safety, the State of California has placed a deadline for
hospitals to retrofit their buildings — a task that could cost
billions of dollars.
A new cancer care center has opened in Chico, staffed by doctors
and nurses who worked through the Camp Fire at a hospital in
Marysville to continue providing care for more than 100 cancer
patients.
The new center in north Chico will provide access for patients
who lost their care location when Adventist Health Feather River
Cancer Center in Paradise was forced to close after the Camp
Fire, and is dually sponsored by both UC Davis Health and
Adventist Health. (Enterprise-Record)
A bottle of shampoo. A tube of toothpaste. These are simple
things that many folks take for granted.
But they are much appreciated by human trafficking victims on the
road to recovery and a fresh start in life.
As part of the hospital’s “No More” campaign, employees of Kaiser
Permanente Fresno donated and collected enough personal hygiene
products to fill more than 1,000 toiletry bags for Breakings
the Chains, a local nonprofit that helps human trafficking
victims. (GV Wire)
Upvalley workers and seniors will soon have a better pulse on
their health and the means to possibly dodge a hospital visit
down the road.
In its latest round of grant-giving to bolster healthcare for
underserved populations in Napa County, the Napa Valley Vintners,
a wine industry trade group, recently awarded $250,000 to the St.
Helena Hospital Foundation.
The NVV’s grants tend to take aim at healthcare and education in
the county, channeling funds into nonprofits providing services
for children and the elderly. (Napa Valley Register)
California had just weeks to get a program that used medication
to treat opioid use disorder up and running after receiving $90
million in federal grants in 2017. So officials found a model
that was already working in Vermont, and supersized it to fit the
sprawling state. (Politico)
After they amputated the second toe on John Trumbla’s right foot
last summer, doctors sent him to a nursing home because he still
needed medical care — but not necessarily a hospital bed.
The proud, burly Army veteran resisted at first, but he didn’t
have a choice. Before his hospitalization at Santa Clara Valley
Medical Center, Trumbla, 56, and his wife had been homeless,
crashing in his boss’s construction shop or living out of their
station wagon. (California Healthline)
Healthcare providers at Sutter Health’s Northern California
campus will soon have access to an Epic EHR-integrated
virtual assistant powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to
reduce the administrative burden of EHR use.
The not-for-profit health system recently announced it will
collaborate with digital assistant solutions provider Suki to
pilot the new health IT tool. Suki is a voice-enabled virtual
assistant that uses voice commands from physicians in context to
create clinically accurate notes within EHR systems. (EHR
Inteligence)
It’s been decades since San Francisco was ground zero for the
AIDS epidemic, but for one population, it still is.
Viral suppression drugs have made HIV a survivable disease for
many, but there is a major discrepancy when it comes to people
who are marginally housed or homeless.
The new POP-UP clinic at UC San Francisco’s Ward 86
at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital(ZSFG) is aiming
to correct this discrepancy. (UCSF)
Adventist Health Clear Lake leaders joined with city of Clearlake
officials on Thursday evening to celebrate their partnership to
improve quality of life in the community.
In a special joint meeting of the Clearlake City Council and
Clearlake Planning Commission, David Santos, the president and
chief executive officer of Adventist Health Clear Lake, presented
a check for $100,000 to Mayor Nick Bennett.
Listed below are the 102 rural hospitals that closed between Jan.
1, 2010, and March 19, 2019, as tracked by the North Carolina
Rural Health Research Program. (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Becker’s Hospital Review recently published its 2019 edition of
the “100 hospital and health system CIOs to know” list. It
features some of the most impressive health IT leaders from
around the country dedicated to advancements and innovation in
the industry. Tahoe Forest Health System’s Chief Information and
Innovation Officer, Jake Dorst, has been honored with this
recognition. (Tahoe Forest Health System)
Dignity Health announced Thursday it is distributing $1.05
million this year to dozens of community-based organizations in
Nevada, Sacramento and Yolo counties to help meet community
health needs outside its hospital walls.
The grants are going toward assisting the most vulnerable
residents of the region: at-risk children, survivors of human and
labor trafficking, individuals living with mental illness and
dementia, the homeless and ethnic groups with high rates of
chronic disease. (The Sacramento Bee)
More than 30 hospitals across California, many in rural areas,
will soon be able to treat patients for opioid withdrawal on the
spot.
The state chose the hospitals for a federally-funded program that
trains doctors on medication-assisted treatment. It’s a way of
easing opioid withdrawal symptoms by giving someone a less
addictive painkiller. (Capital Public Radio)
He doesn’t know it now but when Grayson James Wright is old
enough to speak, he’ll have quite a story to tell about how he
came into the world.
“Oh, it was terrifying,” said Kamber Wright, Grayson’s mother,
who was one week away from her due date of November 15 and her
husband Matthew was at work when the phone started ringing.
(KRCR News Channel)
Kaiser Permanente Fresno has announced an investment in the new
initiative Street2Home — a countywide collaboration to combat
homelessness. (The Business Journal)
Mark Twain Medical Center may see some changes in the coming
months, due to the recent merger between Dignity Health and
Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI). (Calaveras Enterprise)
Just three short years ago the city of Willits received the gift
of a state of the art hospital when Adventist Health Howard
Memorial Hospital (HMH) was built. Today the 25-bed hospital is
full most days as are the many physician rooms at the
corresponding Redwood Medical Clinic. But, HMH president Jason
Wells says growth is on the horizon. (The Willits News)
St. Joseph Health has created a managed care network that brings
together several local hospitals and more than 360 primary and
specialty care physicians in Sonoma and Napa counties, the health
care system announced Feb. 11. (North Bay Business Journal)
The Oroville Hospital is undergoing a major expansion project
that will double its size. The multi-million dollar
expansion will double the size of the hospital, going from 133
beds to 211 beds. (Action News Now)
Nearly 16 months ago a handful of people stood atop the
three-story parking garage at Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Rosa
hospital, awestruck as they witnessed flames from the Tubbs fire
destroy their trailers at Journey’s End mobile home park.
(The Press Democrat)
Sitting in a living room in Oakland, a cute robot with giant eyes
gazes at a 65-year-old with heart failure and asks how he’s
doing, making conversation about the patient’s family and the
weather while gathering daily details about his health.
(Fast Company)
Marin General Hospital has deployed a real-time location
system (RTLS) to boost the hand-hygiene rate among its 1,800
health-care workers and physicians. Since the system was taken
live, the facility’s hand-hygiene compliance has increased, on
average, from 45 percent to 77 percent. The hospital has achieved
a reduction in the rate of infections since the system was
installed, and while it can’t necessarily correlate those results
with the technology itself, that reduction in infections rates
was the facility’s goal.
Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity
Health sealed the deal Friday on their prolonged
courtship that lasted more than two years, according to the
new system’s website.
The Chicago-based not-for-profit system—now known as CommonSpirit
Health—has 142 hospitals, 150,000 employees, nearly $30 billion
in revenue and more than 700 care sites across 21 states,
including 30 hospitals in California. (Modern Healthcare)
Kaweah Delta Healthcare District has joined forces with Cleveland
Clinic’s Heart & Vascular Institute, the No. 1 ranked heart
program in the U.S. (Fox 26)
Doctors Behavioral Health Center is now offering a new
comprehensive, short-term outpatient therapy program for patients
dealing with mental health issues.
The Partial Hospitalization Program helps patients whose
psychiatric illness is impairing their ability to function
successfully in their lives, and where traditional outpatient
therapy services are not sufficient to meet their needs. Patients
can access a variety of therapies and educational groups to
understand their emotional challenges and improve their coping
skills. (PattersonIrrigator.com)
In a county where two Hospitals rank among its largest employers,
there’s a steady demand for registered nurses – and for training
the next generation. The Maurine Church Coburn School of Nursing
at Monterey Peninsula College is a joint effort between the
community college and Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula
meant to provide a nursing program students can easily
access. (Monterey County Weekly)
Like many health systems, Kaiser Permanente, though admittedly a
multibillion dollar organization, faces challenges when faced
with the complex duality of both living within their means and
delivering the best possible care and meaningful services. They
use the dollars they get to provide that care and keep the lights
on so to speak, and it all comes from the same “pot.”
(HealthcareFinance)
Mark Twain Medical Center (MTMC) is proud to award Catholic
Charities (of the Diocese of Stockton) for their Calaveras
focused “Family Wellness Program” the Dignity Heath Mark Twain
Medical Center Community Grant for 2018. “This expansion will
increase mental health service providers in Calaveras County,
increase access points, and available appointments within the
service area,” remarked Elvira Ramirez, Executive Director for
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Stockton.
Adventist Health and Rideout experienced a year of growth in
2018. The hospital will build off of its successes as it looks to
expand its facilities around Yuba-Sutter.
Rick Rawson, president of Adventist Health and Rideout, said
details as to what an expansion could look like still need to be
fleshed out, which will likely take place over the next several
months. He said the ultimate goal is to increase access to
services for Yuba-Sutter residents, not just people living in
Marysville. (Appeal-Democrat)
Sherie C. Hickman is the new chief executive officer
of Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch. Hickman
began her new role on Jan. 2.
Hickman comes to Sutter Delta from Novato Community Hospital,
part of the Sutter Health not-for-profit network of care, where
she served as administrator for two years. (East County
Today)
It’s a step in a new direction for the health of Salinas
residents now that the Blue Zones Project is officially coming to
town.
The project is a national health initiative based on the health
habits of people in the world’s “Blue Zones,” those areas where
people live longer than average with good quality of life.
(Monterey County Weekly)
Anne Platt, the CEO of Sutter Amador Hospital in
Jackson, is leaving her post after 14 years.
Sacramento-based Sutter Health first acquired the hospital from
Amador County in 1993, and rebuilt the facility in 2000. The
52-bed hospital is the only one in Amador County.
(Sacramento Business Journal)
Facing an end-of-the-year deadline to have all patients moved out
of its 87-year-old Depression-era Towers Building, San Joaquin
General Hospital is anticipating the opening this summer of its
new $41 million Acute Care Patient Wing.
Construction began in 2017 just south of the county-run medical
center’s main entrance and is about 90 percent complete,
according to David Culberson, the hospital’s chief executive
officer. (Recordnet.com)
Delano Regional Medical Center has agreed to become part of
Adventist Health Central California, pending regulatory approval.
The move announced Friday would fold 156-bed Delano Regional,
operated by Central California Foundation for Health since 1992,
into a much larger nonprofit organization with hospitals, clinics
and other resources in 80 communities across the West Coast and
Hawaii. (Bakersfield.com)
Stanford Children’s Health plans to provide approximately 2,500
telehealth appointments — in which patients and their
families can use devices such as cellphones and tablets to see
Stanford Medicine physicians remotely — in 2019, making a more
than twofold increase in use of the service. (The Stanford
Daily)
While San Francisco’s list of 10 largest employers is
dominated by tech, across the bay in Oakland it’s all about
health. The city’s top three employers are Kaiser Permanente (No.
1), Sutter Health (No. 2), and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
(No. 3). Together, these health care giants employ about 19,000
people in Oakland and more than 85,000 people in the Bay Area
(Kaiser and Sutter rank third and fourth, respectively, on San
Francisco’s 10 largest employers). (San Francisco Business
Times)
As the Paradise, California community slowly begins to heal
following the apocalyptic devastation of the Camp wildfire last
month, Adventist Health celebrated the reopening of its Feather
River Health Center clinic with a ribbon cutting ceremony
Thursday. The town’s mayor, chamber of commerce and numerous
community members were in attendance. The reopening came after
road access to that portion of Skyway, a major conduit in and out
of the town, was reopened by officials. (Healthcare
Finance)
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has received a $15
million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff to address a shortage of
mental health services for children and adolescents in Oakland
and the East Bay.
The $15 million gift, announced Tuesday by UCSF Benioff
Children’s Hospitals, is intended to enable the Oakland hospital
to increase its mental health services, heighten awareness and
encourage philanthropy. (East Bay Times)
In support of a partnership that has spanned 10 years, John Muir
Health is making a holiday contribution of $35,000 to the Food
Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. The funding will support the
Food Bank’s Community Produce Program, which distributes fresh
fruits and vegetables to more than 50 sites throughout Contra
Costa and Solano counties twice a month. (John Muir Health)
A healthcare provider who integrates digital therapeutics with a
chronic care management program for asthma patients can cut ER
visits and hospitalizations in half, according to a study
undertaken by one of the nation’s largest health systems.
Adventist Health announced Dec. 7 its decision to align
strategies between Adventist Health Ukiah Valley and Adventist
Health Howard Memorial under a unified leadership team led by
Jason Wells, who will assume the role as President over both
campuses effective Jan. 7, 2019. (The Willits News)
Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated health system,
committed up to $1.65 million to support relief and
recovery efforts in communities affected by the
recent California wildfires.
A spokesperson for the Feather River Hospital said on Friday that
the hospital reopening was a matter of when, not if.
This comes two days after the word was that the hospital may
not reopen, as damage from the Camp Fire continues to be
assessed. The hospital is the largest employer in Paradise, with
over 1,000 full-time and part-time employees.
(Enterprise-Record)
Kaiser Permanente filed plans Nov. 20 to expand the emergency
department at its South Sacramento hospital, and if you’re
looking for a reason why, consider that the number of Medi-Cal
enrollees who sought care there more than doubled between 2012
and 2017. (EN Digest)
Plumas District Hospital has a new chief executive officer: JoDee
Tittle.
Valerie Flanigan, the president of the hospital’s board, made the
announcement Sept. 28. Tittle will succeed Dr. Jeff Kepple who is
retiring from the position Oct. 23. The new CEO is expected to
begin work after Thanksgiving. (Plumas County News)
A few local emergency rooms are getting an upgrade in mental
health services.
The emergency rooms at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and
Twin Cities Hospital will now feature a full-time mental health
expert.
SLO County is teaming up with Twin Cities Community Hospital and
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center to help screen patients with
mental illnesses that come into emergency rooms. (KSBY)
Adventist Health Clear Lake celebrates the hospital’s 50th year
with the award of three national honors of distinction for
quality care.
The California Alliance for Collaborative Nursing, or CALNOC,
Performance Excellence Award, the Quest Premier High Value
Healthcare Award, and SMARTCARE California Achievement
Award. (Lake County News)
Annually on the third Thursday of November, the
National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health leads
National Rural Health Day, an annual day of recognition for those
who serve the vital health needs of nearly 60 million people
residing in America’s rural communities, estimated to be one in
five Americans.
We are pleased to announce the Adventist Health Ukiah Valley
Infusion Center has been recognized as a “Community Star” this
2018 National Rural Health Day for its quality and individualized
care in our community. (The Ukiah Daily Journal)
Telemedicine has resulted in money-saving efficiencies to
hospital operations, improved patient safety, and given more
people access to healthcare service among other benefits. In use
for a number of years, it’s here to stay as a vital tool in
patient care. At Marin General Hospital, we have
been incorporating telemedicine into our patient care operations
for some time. (HIT Consultant)
The Paradise hospital where she has worked as a nurse
for more than a decade was damaged by the Camp Fire last Thursday
and her home burned to the ground, but Birgitte Randall and her
colleagues weren’t in the mood to feel sorry for themselves.
Within days, they were part of a growing team of medical
personnel and volunteers who flooded into the East Ave
Nazarene Church in Chico, setting up a medical triage unit
and shelter for hundreds of refugees from the blaze. (The
Sacramento Bee)
