North Bay Business Journal

Health Care: Groups collaborate on 20th HeartWorks Fitness Center

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

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

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

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

Palm Drive discloses errors in extra payments to physicians

SEBASTOPOL – Palm Drive Hospital disclosed that it failed to enter into proper contracts with physicians, resulting in reimbursement mistakes totaling about $2.1 million from 2007 through February of this year.

Adventist Health explores Palm Drive affiliation

SEBASTOPOL and ST. HELENA — Palm Drive Hospital is in talks with the St. Helena Region of Adventist Health about possible affiliation as it seeks long-term financial stability after years of uncertainty. The 37-bed Sebastopol hospital, which just last year emerged from Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, has identified the Roseville-based health group as a possible parent that could help chart a return to solvency and possibly increased services, according to Palm Drive Healthcare District board officials.

Memorial, Healdsburg physicians join Marin-Sonoma IPA

NORTH BAY — The Marin-Sonoma IPA today said physicians from the Annadel Medical Group and several associated with Palm Drive and Healdsburg District hospitals have officially joined the physician network, boosting the ranks of the Novato-based independent practice association to more than 400 doctors in Marin and Sonoma counties.

County health care official says doctor network ‘important step’

NORTH BAY — The expansion of a Marin physician’s network further into Sonoma County is a key step in assisting independent health care districts integrate services, and the alignment it will create at district hospitals is “critical to the long-term success,” according to Sonoma County’s top public health official.

Large regional physician network planned

NORTH BAY — A leading Marin County doctors’ association is heading an effort to create a potentially powerful network of hundreds of North Bay physicians that, if successful, would significantly alter the region’s health care landscape.

Candidates for Palm Drive board sue for release of audit

SEBASTOPOL — A candidate for Palm Drive Healthcare District’s board of directors is seeking a court order to disclose a “closely held audit report” from the 37-bed hospital and its management company.

Jim Maresca, a candidate for the five-member board, filed a writ of petition in Sonoma County Superior Court with Jared Dreyfus, an attorney and also a candidate for the board, that says “voters will be denied crucial information unless this court acts at the ‘earliest possible time’” in requiring the hospital to release an audit by HealthTech Management Services, which recently changed its name from Brim Healthcare Inc.

Palm Drive names new CEO

SEBASTOPOL — Palm Drive Hospital announced today that it has hired a new chief executive. Richard Polheber, a former CEO of Carondelet Holy Cross Hospital in Nogales, Ariz., was unanimously selected by the Palm Drive Health Care District.

Health care district formally announces lawsuit to block new Sutter hospital

HEALDSBURG — The North Sonoma County Healthcare District tonight at its board meeting formally announced its lawsuit to stop development of Sutter Health’s proposed new hospital next to the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts.

Bollinger: Sutter suit pits public entities, raises specter of CEQA

Sonoma County taxpayers should be happy to know they can now witness one taxpayer-funded entity suing another taxpayer-funded entity.

As Palm Drive finds some stability, six vying for district board seats

SEBASTOPOL – With Palm Drive Hospital emerging from years of struggle, bankruptcy and a series of CEOs and with a new sense of optimism about its future, interest has intensified in the race for board seats on the health care district that oversees operations of the 37-bed facility.

Health Care: Petaluma Health Center breaks ground on $15.5 million facility

The Petaluma Health Center last week broke ground on an expansion that will double its patient volume and significantly increase services offered at the federally qualified health center.

Palm Drive gets stroke center certification

SEBASTOPOL — Palm Drive Hospital was certified as a primary stroke center, making it only the second hospital in Sonoma County to earn the distinction.

Palm Drive Hospital only second Sonoma County hospital to earn stroke distinction

SEBASTOPOL — Palm Drive Hospital has been certified as a primary stroke center, making it only the second hospital in Sonoma County to earn the distinction, hospital officials announced today.

Palm Drive completes $11 million bond sale

SEBASTOPOL – Palm Drive Hospital announced Wednesday that it has successfully sold off $11 million in bonds, moving the once financially beleaguered hospital out of bankruptcy three years after it sought Chapter 9 protection from creditors.

Palm Drive completes $11 milliion bond sale

SEBASTOPOL – Palm Drive Hospital announced today that is has successfully sold off $11 million in bonds, moving the once financially beleaguered hospital out of bankruptcy three years after it sought Chapter 9 protection from creditors.

Palm Drive expects $10 million bond to take hospital forward

SEBASTOPOL — Mired in bankruptcy proceedings just three years ago, Palm Drive Hospital is poised to return to stability with the sale of $10 million in bonds that will enable it to move into the black and establish a fund for long-delayed improvements, the hospital said.