North Bay Business Journal

  • People: Week of Jan. 30, 2012

    January 30th, 2012

    Click here for photo gallery Health Care The Northern California Center for Well-Being has hired Annette Zucconi as its new operations manager as part of its leadership team. Ms. Zucconi has dedicated over 20 years to non-profit community education work and brings a breadth of curriculum development, contract and program management experience to the Center [...]

  • Palm Drive affiliates with Marin General

    December 19th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — The Palm Drive Healthcare District on Monday night unanimously approved an affiliation agreement with Marin General Hospital, a move that district officials hope will help Palm Drive Hospital achieve long-term financial stability.

  • Health Care: BloodSource leases space for permanent facility

    December 19th, 2011

    BloodSource, a Sacramento area-based blood supplier of hospitals in Central and Northern California, has leased nearly 7,200 square feet at 3505 Industrial Drive in Santa Rosa, which will be the company’s permanent location for Sonoma County. … OffSiteCare, a telemedicine company founded by Sebastopol physician Dr. James Gude, has opened a central hub in San Francisco, where it it intends to provide nighttime hospitalist and specialist consultations for seven Northern California Hospitals, including several in the North Bay, the company said. … Daymon Doss, the current executive director of the Northern California Health Care Authority and former Petaluma Healthcare District CEO, has taken a three-month consulting job as interim executive director of the Mt. Diablo Health Care District in eastern Contra Costa County. … Marin Commuinty Clinics was awarded $460,000 by the Marin County Board of Supervisors to help adults suffering from the onset of serious psychiatric illness, along with other mental health services. … Napa County has selected San Diego-based McAlister Institute to operate a short-term residential and detox center on the campus of Napa State Hospital.

  • Gains seen for both parties in possible Palm pact

    November 14th, 2011

    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.

  • Palm Drive leans toward Marin General affiliation

    November 8th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — The Palm Drive Healthcare District last night chose to advance affiliation talks with Marin General Hospital over four other proposals, a move that came earlier than expected.

  • Palm Drive names two new board members

    November 3rd, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — Former small business owner Mark Inman and family physician John Canova , M.D., were appointed to the Palm Drive Health Care District Board of Directors Wednesday night during a special session of the board.

  • Marin-Sonoma IPA, Health Net offer Medicare Plan for Sonoma County residents

    October 28th, 2011

    SONOMA COUNTY — Marin-Sonoma IPA has joined with Health Net to provide Medicare plans for Sonoma County seniors in the wake of a coverage agreement between Sutter Health and UnitedHealthcare.

  • Palm Drive weighing affiliation proposals from five suitors

    October 10th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — The Palm Drive Healthcare District has received proposals from five health care organizations for possible affiliation, as the 37-bed hospital overseen by the district seeks a larger entity to assist in providing long-term financial stability.

  • Palm Drive gets five proposals for affiliation

    October 3rd, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — The Palm Drive Healthcare District has received proposals from five health care organizations for possible affiliation as the 37-bed hospital overseen by the district seeks a larger entity to assist in providing long-term financial stability.

  • Center honors health efforts; grant for residency program; St. Helena joint program noted

    September 26th, 2011

    The Northern California Center for Well Being last week held its annual benefit, Celebration of Dreams, where Sonoma County health care professionals and officials were honored for their efforts in health and wellness.

  • Palm Drive board member Dan Smith resigns

    September 20th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — Palm Drive Hospital board member Dan Smith announced unexpectedly that he is resigning his seat amid disagreement over a recent board decision to not renew a contract with Dr. James Gude and his telemedicine company, OffSiteCare.

  • Palm declines to renew contract with telemedicine physician

    September 13th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — The board of directors at Palm Drive Hospital has decided not to renew a contract with Dr. James Gude, the hospital’s well-known telemedicine specialist whose company provides key services and physicians to the hospital.

  • 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.

  • Hospitals appeal Sutter project ruling

    August 23rd, 2011

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

  • Palm Drive to ask for proposals from seven potential partners

    August 18th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — Palm Drive Hospital’s board of directors is set to issue a “request for information” to a group of health care organizations the hospital said could be “potential strategic partners.”

  • 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 [...]

  • Health Care: Groups collaborate on 20th HeartWorks Fitness Center

    July 25th, 2011

    The Northern California Center for Well-Being, along with the Northern California Medical Associates, today celebrated the 20th anniversary of the HeartWorks Fitness Center, a cardiovascular rehabilitation program. The Center for Well-Being, which focuses on wellness and preventative care, and NCMA, a practice of cardiologists, have collaborated on the program made possible by ongoing support from [...]

  • Adventist Health creating Northern California Network

    July 25th, 2011

    NORTH BAY — Adventist Health, which operates numerous health care facilities from Solano to Lake County, announced that it is restructuring and renaming the region to the Northern California Network “as a result of growth and pending business opportunities.”

  • 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.

  • Palm Drive Medical Center expands footprint

    July 8th, 2011

    SEBASTOPOL — Three years after it opened, Palm Drive Medical Center is expanding to larger quarters.

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