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Memorial names new director for acute rehab unit
March 18th, 2011SANTA 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 [...]
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Memorial doctors perform angiogram from wrist
March 7th, 2011SANTA 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.
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NLRB rules for union at Memorial Hospital
December 30th, 2010SANTA 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.
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Healdsburg, Santa Rosa Memorial hospitals sign affiliation agreement
November 16th, 2010HEALDSBURG 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.
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Web links ICU babies with outside world
November 15th, 2010SANTA ROSA – For new parents there’s nothing quite so harrowing as an infant needing the intensive care nursery.
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Memorial Hospital files challenge to decision for NUHW
June 11th, 2010SANTA 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.
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Union wins right to represent hospital workers
June 2nd, 2010SANTA ROSA — The National Labor Relations Board has sided with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in a long-standing labor dispute with Memorial Hospital.
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Santa Rosa Memorial gets county trauma center contract extension
March 16th, 2010SANTA ROSA — The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors today approved an eight-year extension contract of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital’s contract as a level ii trauma center.
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NUHW favored in challenges to ballots; hospital objections remain
January 21st, 2010SANTA ROSA — Challenges to 17 ballots in the disputed union election at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital have been resolved in favor of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, although objections by the hospital to the election process are still under investigation by federal labor officials.
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Memorial hones heart attack response
January 11th, 2010SANTA ROSA — Advances in communications technologies plus stopwatch teamwork have made Santa Rosa Memorial’s heart attack response the fastest in the U.S.
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Memorial union election decision awaited
December 23rd, 2009SANTA ROSA — A series of ballot challenges to determine who was eligible to vote in the Dec. 17-18 union election at St. Joseph Health System’s Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital has delayed a final tally and certification of the election by the National Labor Relations Board until after Dec. 29, according to Tim Peck, assistant regional director with the NLRB in San Francisco.
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Psych care to return to Sonoma County
December 7th, 2009A Southern California-based mental health provider plans to open an acute psychiatric care hospital in southwest Santa Rosa by early 2011, bringing back inpatient services missing from Sonoma County since early 2008 for adults and since the 1980s for youth.
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St. Joseph purchases medical building across from Memorial Hospital
November 9th, 2009SANTA ROSA – St. Joseph Health System Sonoma County has purchased a 25,000-square-foot former convalescent hospital across from Memorial Hospital that it previously leased for skilled nursing and palliative care.
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Memorial Hospital election set after long union battle
November 9th, 2009SANTA ROSA, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – The last-minute scheduling of a union election for about 600 Memorial hospital workers came as a bitter-sweet surprise last Monday morning, even within the context of a high-pitched battle between two Northern California unions.
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December election set for Memorial employees
November 2nd, 2009SANTA ROSA — After more than six years of attempts to organize, about 600 Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital workers will finally vote whether to have union representation Dec. 17 and Dec. 18, following an agreement this morning between two warring labor groups and the employer.
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Hospital union election decision delayed to Nov. 2
October 28th, 2009SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA – The Oct. 26 hearing intended to schedule the long-awaited union election for Memorial Hospital workers has been delayed until Nov. 2, according to a National Labor Relations Board official who said one of the union’s attorneys could not attend the meeting.
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Health care unions clash
October 12th, 2009SANTA ROSA – With a six-year unionization effort at stake, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital has become a battlefield in a rivalry between national labor giant Service Employees International Union and a fledgling group of its former Northern California leaders.
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St. Joseph names COO
August 24th, 2009SONOMA COUNTY – St. Joseph Health System – Sonoma County will employ a new chief operating officer beginning Sept. 28. Southern California administrator Todd Salnas will assume the role currently filled by Chief Executive Officer Kevin Klockenga, who will now devote his full time to the CEO position.
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Health Care: House approves $700,000 for clinic, cancer study; goes to Senate
August 9th, 2009The U.S. House of Representatives, with leadership from local Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, approved about $700,000 for local health care organizations in Marin and Sonoma counties.
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Mental Health Coalition of Sonoma County prepares launch
May 18th, 2009After five years in development under St. Joseph Health System’s wing, the Mental Health Coalition of Sonoma County will officially become its own entity this summer, and officials have already garnered support from nearly every big health care name in the county.
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