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)
Bacteria-spreading infections like Ebola and the region’s most
recent scare, the Norovirus, shouldn’t stand a chance with new
high-tech cleaning machines recently acquired by Oroville
Hospital.
The robots work by exuding measured ultraviolet rays, essentially
zapping bacteria and spores not visible to the naked eye,
covering every inch of the room the device is placed in. (ChicoER
News)
Like hundreds of thousands of people in the North State, Kiyomi
Bird vividly remembers how she spent the night of Feb. 12.
Bird, director for the Community Health and Sciences division of
the Butte County Public Health Department, got word in the
afternoon that public safety authorities might call for an
evacuation south of Oroville Dam. With the main spillway and
emergency spillway damaged, Lake Oroville had reached a
critically high level that threatened flooding of low-lying
areas. (Chico News & Review)
When asked about the most serious health care issues facing the
nation, Americans consistently name cost and access as the two
most pressing problems. This has been the case since at least
2001, when the pollsters at Gallup began posing the question each
November. Last year, 42 percent chose one of the two as the
biggest challenges to living healthy.
Officials from all five Butte County cities and county government
got a glimpse of the large, ongoing efforts to address
homelessness Friday.
At the end of the countywide summit on homelessness at the
Southside Oroville Community Center, county Chief Administrative
Officer Paul Hahn said the issue was great, but there was a
tremendous amount of money, resources and people dedicated to
addressing it. He joined others in taking encouragement that
leaders from the county’s local governments were in
attendance. (ChicoER News)
“The patient is what drives health care,” asserted
Oroville Hospital CEO Robert Wentz. “What we know about patients
determines what we do for patients, and what’s available to
patients. Is there anything more important than maintaining and
communicating patient information? If we don’t have information,
we have to start from scratch with everybody every time.”
(LaPado, Chico News & Review 9/1/11)
