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  • Healdsburg, Sebastopol hospital districts to appeal Sutter ruling

    August 29th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Two Sonoma County health care districts say they plan on appealing a recent court ruling that mostly sided with Sutter Health over objections to Sutter’s new $284 million hospital, now under construction just north of Santa Rosa.

  • Q&A: Walt Mickens, Queen of the Valley: Hospital looks to future in midst of $130 million project

    August 29th, 2011

    NAPA – Queen of the Valley Medical Center, the largest hospital in Napa County and the largest private employer, is facing a multitude of challenges – like all hospitals – as much of the health care industry undergoes significant change.

  • Kaiser administration in San Rafael to relocate

    August 25th, 2011

    SAN RAFAEL – Kaiser Permanente’s San Rafael Administration team will soon relocate from its existing location at 1600 Los Gamos Road, crossing over Highway 101 to 100 Smith Ranch Rd., where it has leased nearly 25,000 square feet of space.

  • Insurance veteran McKnight joins EPIC

    August 22nd, 2011

    PETALUMA — Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has brought on long-time Santa Rosa employee benefits consultant Victor McKnight as a principal in the Petaluma office. Mr. McKnight’s landing at EPIC comes barely two weeks after EPIC relocated to a bigger location in Petaluma and just over a year after its arrival in the North Bay.

  • Winery health insurance costs rise 12 percent

    August 22nd, 2011

    NOVATO — Wineries across the North Bay experienced roughly a 12 percent cost increase in their employees’ health plans this past year, a figure that is commensurate with other industries but one that runs counter to last year’s results, according to a new survey.

  • New health center facilities open in Petaluma, Forestville

    August 22nd, 2011

    SONOMA COUNTY — Two of Sonoma County’s federally qualified health centers celebrated grand openings this month. Another announced the award of federal funds to expand services, while a broader coalition of such centers held a conference highlighting the services they provide, even amid the threat of diminishing public funds.

  • EPIC insurance expanding offices in Petaluma

    August 8th, 2011

    PETALUMA — After barely a year in the North Bay, Edgewood Partners Insurance Center will relocate from the Petaluma Marina Business Center to a larger space to accommodate its growth over the past year while establishing a permanent location at 5350 Old Redwood Highway.

  • Palm Drive hires consultants to help with affiliation talks

    August 8th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL – Palm Drive Hospital has brought on two well-known health care veterans to help the 37-bed facility chart its course through affiliation talks with larger health care organizations, a move most view as key to its financial stability. The Palm Drive Healthcare District Board of Directors unanimously agreed to bring on Walter Kopp, a [...]

  • Jobs networking group off to strong start

    August 8th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA – Greg Jones, founder of the new North Bay Networking Group, got a pleasant surprise at the group’s first event last week. It was packed. “We expected about 40 attendees,” said the former State Farm recruitment executive, who wants to help his laid-off colleagues and other jobseekers connect with employers. “We got 150 people, including recruiters from a number of local companies. It was a very positive event, resulting in jobs for several and an uplift in spirits for us all.”

  • Business News: Week of Aug. 1, 2011

    August 1st, 2011

    Short news items about businesses in the north San Francisco Bay area

  • Business Journal Q&A: Dr. Jeff Sugarman, President, Sonoma County Medical Assoication

    July 25th, 2011

    SONOMA COUNTY — The Sonoma County Medical Association recently named Jeff Sugarman as its new president, a position that he will hold for the next year. He recently shared with the Business Journal some his main priories as the new president of the SCMA, as well as his thoughts on a wide range of health care issues in Sonoma County — from access to specialty care, the new health care reform law and the increasing challenges of physicians in private practice, among others.

  • Regional Access Plan in early talks on HMO for businesses

    July 11th, 2011

    SONOMA COUNTY — Members of a regional effort to create a strong network of physicians across the North Bay are in early talks with a Sacramento-based health maintenance organization about forming an insurance product around the nearly 500-member physician network, with the possible goal of offering a commercial health plan to employers.

  • Experts say employers must plan now for federal health care law

    July 11th, 2011

    A much-debated poll recently predicted a majority of companies likely would drop employee health insurance as a result of the impending federal health care overhaul. Despite the controversy, North Bay insurance experts say businesses must grapple with coverage questions at the heart of the poll results now rather than waiting until the rules take effect.

  • Insurance: Fireman’s Fund names new CEO

    July 11th, 2011

    Lori Dickerson Fouché has been named the new president and chief executive officer of Novato-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.

  • Vantreo wins eighth trade association endorsement

    July 11th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — Vantreo Insurance Brokerage was endorsed by a 900-member trade association for offering specialty coverage, bringing the total number of such endorsements to eight professional groups from various industries. The California Healthcare Interpreters Association is the latest to recommend the Santa Rosa-based insurer as a brokerage with enough specialty experience to cater to [...]

  • Fireman’s Fund names new CEO

    July 5th, 2011

    NOVATO — Lori Dickerson Fouché has been named the new president and chief executive officer of Novato-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. She succeeds Michael LaRocco, who left the company to “pursue other professional opportunities.”

  • People: Week of July 4, 2011

    July 4th, 2011

    People items submitted by North Bay businesses for publication in the Business Journal

  • George Petersen Insurance to consolidate offices

    June 27th, 2011

    SANTA ROSA — George Petersen Insurance, the North Bay’s second largest property and casualty insurance agency, will soon relocate headquarters from its current 627 College Ave. location to another, larger building at 175 West College Ave.

  • Doctors Co. to acquire Southeast insurer for $362 million

    May 24th, 2011

    NAPA — The Doctors Company, a Napa-based insurer of physicians, today said it signed a deal to acquire FPIC Insurance Group, a major publicly traded medical liability insurance provider in the Southeast, for about $362 million.

  • People: Week of May 23, 2011

    May 23rd, 2011

    People items submitted by North Bay businesses for publication in the Business Journal

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