About Redwood Coast / North Bay
The North Bay and Redwood Coast Sections are comprised of 22 hospitals, representing over 1,600 licensed beds in Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma, Del Norte, and Humboldt counties.
Financial Instability, Other Issues Discussed
Who What Leaders gathered in person in Napa to meet new colleagues (welcome Abhishek Dosi of Kaiser Permanente and Troy Gideon of Providence), discuss critical issues, and enjoy an evening of fine company in the bucolic Napa Valley. Following a discussion of hospital financial viability and CHA’s related advocacy, the conversation coalesced around three top […]
Game-Changing Grant Will Help Build Crisis Support Services in Humboldt County
Throughout California, the need for additional behavioral health support is self-evident. Our emergency department teams regularly care for all their patients with as much dignity and love as they have, and we have all seen the toll this care can take on our caregivers.
Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Gathers for Incubate Summit
Who What Adventist Health’s North Coast Network gathered for the second quarterly meeting of its Incubate Summit to discuss full scope family medicine (FSFM) residency retention in the Ukiah Valley. Based on feedback from the first gathering of this group in early 2023, the May 1 collaboration took a deeper dive into topics such as […]
Redwood Coast Discussion Includes Proposed Seismic Legislation
Who What Last month, the CEOs from Hospital Council’s Redwood Coast Section gathered via Zoom to discuss CHA/Hospital Council legislative priorities such as seismic, the end of the state of emergency, and wind-down of the federal public health emergency. As seismic legislation currently stands, the 2030 requirements are consequential to every member hospital in the […]
Behavioral Health, Elderly, Poverty, and Workforce Discussions
Who What On Feb. 15, the CEOs from the North Bay Section gathered by Zoom with CHA and Hospital Council to discuss several issues — legislative priorities, behavioral health, workforce, as well as member hospitals’ priorities for the year. Behavioral health remains a top concern and there was robust discussion with CHA’s Kirsten Barlow about […]
Redwood Coast Section Gathers for In-Person Meeting
Who Hospital Council and CHA Hospital executives Local health officials American Hospital Management Corporation What Gathering for the first in-person section meeting of Hospital Council’s Redwood Coast Section in over two years, attendees enjoyed a lively discussion spanning California public policy related to health care, staffing challenges, and behavioral health and substance use disorder. The […]
Hospital Council, CHA Staff Visit Humboldt County Hospitals
Who • Hospital Council and CHA• Hospital executives• Local health officials• Verily Life Sciences What Following a successful behavioral health collaborative, Meghan Hardin (Hospital Council), Kirsten Barlow (CHA), and Verily’s Rebecca Messing Haigler visited the four general acute care hospitals (GACH) and the lone psychiatric health facility, Sempervirens, in Humboldt County. While they varied in the […]
Stakeholders Gather to Discuss Behavioral Health in Humboldt County
Who Hospital Council and CHA Hospital executives California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Local health officials Community safety leaders Emergency medical services personnel Verily Life Sciences What Behavioral health care and substance abuse treatment stakeholders in Humboldt County met with Hospital Council and CHA leadership on June 1 at The Historic Eagle House in downtown Eureka […]
Mad River Community Hospital Celebrates 50 Years, Addition of Three New Physicians
Who Mad River Community Hospital What The struggles of recruiting physicians to rural health care are well documented, but in Arcata, Mad River Community Hospital is celebrating the addition of three new physicians along with its 50th anniversary and. General surgeons Dr. Bryan Freeman and Dr. Rakhee Shah, as well as orthopedist Dr. Andrew Kim, […]
Sutter Santa Rosa Opens New Tower
Who Sutter Santa Rosa leadership Santa Rosa community members What On April 29, Sutter Santa Rosa leadership and community members gathered for a ribbon cutting of Sutter’s new, 60,000-square-foot expansion tower. The tower adds 40 private patient rooms, two operating suites, an endoscopy room, 13 additional outpatient care beds, 11 post-acute bays, and nine emergency […]