North Bay Business Journal

St. Joseph’s Annadel Medical Group adds seven physicans

SONOMA COUNTY — St. Joseph Health System announced that seven physicians recently joined the Annadel Medical Group in Sonoma County, bringing the total number of physicians in the foundation that contract with Santa Rosa Memorial and Petaluma Valley hospitals to 43.

Palm Drive gets five proposals for affiliation

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

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.

St. Joseph Health System to hold forum on Affordable Care Act

SANTA ROSA — St. Joseph Health System–Sonoma County will hold a forum on the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and how it impacts consumers.

St. Joseph Health System grants $300,000 to nonprofits

SANTA ROSA — The foundation of St. Joseph Health System, which operates Santa Rosa Memorial and Petaluma Valley hospitals, has awarded five local nonprofits more than $300,000.

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 [...]

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.

Memorial resumes $15 million emergency department expansion

SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital today announced it will resume the $15 million renovation of its emergency department in early 2012, a project that was postponed during the collapse of financial markets in 2008.

St. Joseph CEO in Sonoma County to oversee Northern California

SANTA ROSA — Kevin Klockenga, president and chief executive officer of St. Joseph Health System, has been appointed executive vice president for the Northern California Region as part of a restructuring of leadership for the health system that owns Santa Rosa Memorial and operates Petaluma Valley hospitals.

In his new role, Mr. Klockenga will oversee operations in Northern California, including Sonoma, Napa and Humboldt counties. It will be one of three regional divisions of the Orange-based health system, the other two being Southern California and West Texas/Eastern New Mexico.

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.

Santa Rosa Memorial starts birthing center renovation

SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital is undertaking a $444,000 renovation of its Family Birthing Center.

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.

Memorial implants MRI-safe Medtronic pacemaker

SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital last week implanted an MRI-safe pacemaker into a patient, making it the first hospital north of the Golden Gate Bridge to do so, according to the hospital and the medical device maker.

Memorial names new director for acute rehab unit

SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital announced today it has appointed Danny Arzanipour as the new medical director of the hospital’s Acute Rehabilitation Unit. In his new role, Dr. Arzanipour will be responsible primarily for evaluating and admitting patients to the acute care unit, overseeing the care and treatment of patients in the unit [...]

Memorial doctors perform angiogram from wrist

SANTA ROSA – Cardiologists at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital recently performed what they describe as a far less invasive procedure to examine the heart and arteries, making it the first hospital in Sonoma County to perform a procedure that could become the norm.

NLRB rules for union at Memorial Hospital

SANTA ROSA — The National Labor Relations Board has certified the National Union of Healthcare Workers as the bargaining representative for about 700 technical, service and maintenance employees at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

Healdsburg, Santa Rosa Memorial hospitals sign affiliation agreement

HEALDSBURG and SANTA ROSA — The parent organizations of Healdsburg District Hospital and Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital today announced they have entered into an affiliation agreement to share certain resources between the two institutions.

Web links ICU babies with outside world

SANTA ROSA – For new parents there’s nothing quite so harrowing as an infant needing the intensive care nursery.

Memorial Hospital files challenge to decision for NUHW

SANTA ROSA — Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital today announced it filed a challenge to a judge’s recent ruling that sided with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in the long-standing labor dispute.