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  • Kaiser to launch family medicine residency program

    May 14th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Rosa Medical Center will launch a family medicine residency program to expand the number of primary care physicians being trained in Sonoma County, it was announced today.

  • Marin Community Foundation distributes $2 million in health care grants

    May 14th, 2012

    NOVATO — Grants totaling $2 million were distributed by the Marin Community Foundation to various health care agencies in Marin County as part of a$10 million, five-year grant established by Sutter Health.

  • St. Joseph Health System changes name

    May 14th, 2012

    St. Joseph Health System, which owns and operates Santa Rosa Memorial, Queen of the Valley and Petaluma Valley hospitals in the North Bay, is officially dropping “system” from its formal name, which is now just St. Joseph Health.

  • SRHC leases space for new Roseland children’s clinic

    May 14th, 2012

    The Santa Rosa Community Health Centers has selected a new location for its Roseland Children’s Health Center, which is currently housed at an elementary school, that will accommodate the growing services by nearly quadrupling the size of the current site. … Kaiser Permanente is joining a nationwide effort to combat what health officials say is a growing epidemic — obesity. … Marin General Hospital’s Cancer Institute received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. Only 106 out of roughly 3,000 cancer centers in the U.S. have recieved the award, according to Marin General, and it has not been given to any other hospital in Marin, Sonoma, San Francisco or San Mateo counties. … Marin General Hospital’s Cancer Institute received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons. … Kaiser Permanente’s Napa-Solano region recently awarded $800,000 in grants to local nonprofits in both counties, focusing on five key areas: access to prevention and primary care services; reducing obesity and overweight rates in adults and children; decreasing risky teen behaviors; prevention of community violence; and reducing health disparities.

  • People: Week of May 14, 2012

    May 14th, 2012

    Construction Carilile Macy, a Santa Rosa-based civil engineering, landscape architecture and surveying firm, has hired Christopher Brown as its  finance manager. Health Care Chris Bandy, MD, FACS, has been named trauma medical director of Kaiser Permanente’s Vacaville Medical Center. Dr. Bandy joins Kaiser Permanente from Enloe Medical Center in Chico where he was a trauma and [...]

  • Sonoma Valley Hospital gets $3 million gift for emergency wing

    May 10th, 2012

    SONOMA — Staffing company founder Gary Nelson and his wife, Marcia, are making a $3 million gift toward an extensive upgrade of Sonoma Valley Hospital, including a new emergency department and other improvements, it was announced today.

  • Sutter selects developer for Santa Rosa medical office building

    May 9th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa today announced it selected Irvine-based Hammes Company to develop an on-campus, state-of-the-art medical office building as part of the new $284 million hospital just north of Santa Rosa.

  • St. Helena Hospital gets $1 million donation

    May 8th, 2012

    ST. HELENA — St. Helena Hospital today announced that Joseph Phelps, founder of the Napa Valley winery that bears his name, donated $1 million to a hospital capital campaign called Project Transform.

  • Sonoma Valley Hospital to break ground on $39 million upgrade

    May 7th, 2012

    SONOMA — Sonoma Valley Hospital will break ground this week on a $39 million upgrade that will bring the hospital in line with state-mandated seismic standards while significantly improving the 83-bed facility’s emergency department along with other improvements, officials said

  • Psych hospital opening pushed to August

    May 5th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The long-awaited opening of a 93-bed psychiatric hospital in Santa Rosa has been pushed back until August due to construction delays, according to the forthcoming hospital’s chief executive officer.

  • Doctors Company declares dividend

    May 3rd, 2012

    NAPA — The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest medical liability insurer, today announced a $21 million dividend for its member physicians and surgeons.

  • North Bay health centers get $11.8 million in construction grants

    May 1st, 2012

    A handful of health centers in and near the North Bay received grants totaling $11.8 million as part of a national program under the health care reform law, it was announced today.

  • Direct Flow Medical names new chief medical officer

    April 30th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Direct Flow Medical, Inc., a privately held medical device company focused on minimally invasive implant to treat patients with heart valve disease, announced the appointment of Charles Davidson, MD, as chief medical officer.

  • Marin-Sonoma IPA expands into new space

    April 30th, 2012

    NOVATO — Responding to continuous growth over the last two years, the Marin-Sonoma IPA is moving into a larger space at Hamilton Landing in Novato, from about 12,000 square feet to more than 20,000 square feet.

  • Facing big losses, two Lake County clinics to be closed

    April 30th, 2012

    Sutter Lakeside Hospital announced recently it would close two clinics in Lake County. The Upper Lake Community Health Clinic, which serves roughly 2,400 patients per year and was losing more than $200,000 a year, and a chronic pain clinic will both be shuttered in the coming months.

  • Sutter medical group expanding Airway services

    April 30th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, the physician arm of Sutter Health in the Bay Area, will undergo a significant expansion of services in Sonoma County, with much of it being consolidated into 19,000 square feet of newly leased space at the Landmark Executive Center on Airway Drive.

  • SRCHC moving A Street Clinic to Brookwood facility

    April 30th, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — The Santa Rosa Community Health Centers recently closed its A Street Clinic, which served as a primary care and outreach center for the homeless, the medically underserved and underinsured, who will be transitioned to the recently opened Brookwood Health Center.

  • Kentfield hospital to get $9 million upgrade

    April 30th, 2012

    KENTFIELD — Kentfield Rehabilitation and Specialty Hospital will soon undergo a $9 million renovation and upgrade, a project five years in the making that is poised to begin in mid-May or early June, officials announced.

  • Queen of the Valley to lay off 55 employees

    April 25th, 2012

    NAPA — Queen of the Valley Medical Center said today it is eliminating 55 jobs, the result of the hospital needing to fill an $8.3 million budget deficit created in large part by the economic downturn, decreased reimbursements for patient care services, fluctuating patient volumes, and increases in charity care and bad debt. The reductions will save the hospital approximately $3.2 million, according to the 191-bed hospital.

  • Memorial set to begin $15 million upgrade to emergency department

    April 23rd, 2012

    SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, the only level II trauma center in the region, said it will soon begin site preparation work on a $15 million renovation to its emergency department, a project that was delayed with the financial collapse of 2008.

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