North Bay Business Journal

Nearly every major health care provider in the region has recently opened a new clinic or outpatient center, and numerous others have said plans are under way for similar expansions, reflecting a concerted effort by providers to move outside of the hospital setting. …

Marin General Hospital recently opened the Baden Diabetes Center, an outpatient program that provides self-management skills, treatment and on-going guidance for patients with diabetes. …

NorthBay Healthcare is in the process of developing a new medical office building in Fairfield adjacent to its administrative center at 4500 Business Center Dr. …

St. Joseph Health recently completed the move if its Memorial Hospice program to 439 College Ave. in Santa Rosa, where it will occupy 12,000 square feet. …

Northern California Center for Well-Being will hold its third annual Workforce Wellness Symposium this month at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. …

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital’s lease is set to expire in 2015, and both the health care district and the nonprofit that oversee functions of the hospital have agreed on terms of a new lease that they will put to voters in an upcoming June election.

GREENBRAE — The county of Marin approved a new 10-year trauma contract with Marin General Hospital, the county’s only designated trauma center.

The hospital also was recently reverified as a Level III trauma center by the American College of Surgeons.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital recently unveiled a newly built emergency department that the 235-bed hospital said will significantly improve care and patient satisfaction.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital released a draft environmental impact report for a roughly $500 million rebuild project that will bring the 235-bed level III trauma center in line with state seismic measures while improving other features.

SANTA ROSA — The Annadel Medical Group has added physicians at an accelerating pace, making it arguably the fastest growing medical group in the region at a time health systems across the country seek to attract more physicians. …

FAIRFIELD — Shortly after expanding its reach into Marin and Mendocino counties, Partnership HealthPaln, a nonprofit managed Medi-Cal provider, went on an aggressive hiring spree, saying it intended to increase its 280-person work force by about 30 percent. …

GREENBRAE — As district hospitals look to evolve with the dramatically shifting health care landscape, no other district can quite keep pace with Marin General Hospital, overseen by the Marin Healthcare District for the past two years now. …

GREENBRAE — Both sides in a long-running feud between Marin General Hospital and Sutter Health are claiming victory in last week’s arbitration ruling awarding $21.5 million to the hospital district.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital today said it was awarded $21.5 million from arbitration in the long-running dispute between the hospital and Sutter Health, which operated the facility until it ceded control nearly two years ago.

Two major owners of commercial property in Marin and Sonoma counties have put 20 office buildings with 951,000 square feet on the market for sale in recent weeks in what some market watchers are anticipating will test institutional investor views of the long-term outlook for the North Bay business community.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital today announced that it will open an outpatient diabetes center next year, funded by a $1 million donation from Kentfield resident Bruce Baden, diagnosed with type I diabetes himself.

The Palm Drive Healthcare District’s recent vote to begin exclusive negotiations for affiliating with Marin General Hospital has the potential to help the long-struggling Sebastopol hospital stabilize, while creating an expansive network of alliances between numerous district hospitals across the North Bay that might otherwise struggle for survival.

GREENBRAE — One year removed from a protracted divorce with Sutter Health, officials at Marin General Hospital said the county’s largest health care facility is financially stable and poised to remain on the path of being a successful, independently run hospital.

The rough ride endured by the Marin County commercial market in the late part of the decade got smoother in 2010. This trend continues in 2011.

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Marin Healthcare District expanded operations at Drakes Landing Office Center in Greenbrae. The story “Lease Brings Marin Healthcare District ‘home’” [p. 2, Aug. 16] contained incorrect location information.

GREENBRAE — The dispute between the Marin Healthcare District and Sutter Health over financial transfers out of Marin General Hospital has risen to a new level. A lawsuit filed last week claims Sutter improperly transferred more than $120 million out of Marin General between 2006 and June 2010, jeopardizing the financial stability and hindering operations at the acute-care hospital after it severed ties with the Marin Healthcare District. [Read the legal complaint and previous coverage of the the Marin General Hospital equity transfers.]

UPDATED AT 5:05 P.M.: GREENBRAE — The Marin General Hospital Corp. today filed suit against Sutter Health in its attempts to reclaim more than $120 million that was transferred out of the 255-bed hospital since 2006.

GREENBRAE — The Marin Healthcare District has leased more than 14,000 square feet of office in its existing complex just down the road from Marin General Hospital.

GREENBRAE – The Marin Healthcare District announced the formation of an oversight board consisting of 10 nominees for Marin General Hospital as it transitions from Sutter Health Systems into a community-owned hospital.

GREENBRAE — Marin General Hospital will have two more years to seismically retrofit the aging campus, following the approval of an assembly bill Sunday. Without the adjustment, the hospital would have had to be completely rebuilt by 2013.