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Earlier this summer NorthBay Health — like a lot of nonprofit hospitals around the country — found itself in the unenviable position of having to make extremely difficult but necessary decisions to ensure the future of our health care system, which has been serving the Solano County community for 62 years. As the global pandemic started to ebb, serious…
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NorthBay Health’s two hospitals, three Primary Care facilities, two Urgent Care centers and numerous specialty clinics are located in the heart of Solano County, delivering advanced medicine close to home Service directory In Vacaville The NorthBay VacaValley Hospital Campus: 1. NorthBay VacaValley Hospital 1000 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville 24-hour Emergency services, 44 medical-surgical beds, 16…
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When it comes to connecting with NorthBay Health, our patients have plenty of options. NorthBay now accepts more plans than ever — including Blue Shield Access+ HMO, Health Net HMO, WHA and United Healthcare. And our network of doctors continues to grow. The Western Health Advantage health plan was created to serve local employers and better control…
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Children’s immune systems may have done a better job than most adults in fending off COVID-19, but it didn’t protect them from the emotional scars of the pandemic, according to NorthBay Health pediatrician Michael Ginsberg, M.D. As schools shut down, children’s routines went sideways. They watched their parents struggle through uncertain times, some as essential…
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Paul Palma, 18, knows his way around obstacles. He came to this country from the Philippines in the middle of the pandemic with his father and two siblings. They returned home last year, but Paul decided to stay with two of his aunts in Fairfield so he could graduate from Rodriguez High School. He started…
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Vacaville resident Ted Neima keeps a small slip of paper in his wallet — a fortune cookie message he got the night before he had a valve in his heart surgically replaced. “Look forward to great fortune and a new lease on life,” it reads and Ted says that sums up his experience at NorthBay Health just…
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Fairfield resident Maria Murillo finds a lot of joy these days simply taking long rides in a car, hiking or being able to walk up stairs. That’s because for the past couple of years, those simple tasks were impossible for Maria to endure without excruciating pain in her lower back. Thanks to a minimally-invasive surgical…
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Vacaville resident Judy Fisher had experienced asthma as a young athlete years ago. But when she found herself in the NorthBay Health Emergency Department, straining to breathe, she knew it wasn’t asthma. “They examined me and couldn’t see anything so I was sent home with an inhaler,” she recalled. But the difficulty with getting enough…
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Perhaps the most transformational time in a woman’s life is when she becomes a mother, observed Kalie Li, D.O., an OB/GYN for NorthBay Health. “It’s such a huge milestone for a woman. Life is now so different and there are a lot of unexpected things that may occur. The arrival of the first child is…
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The NorthBay Health Cancer Center, in the VacaValley Wellness Center in Vacaville, is more than just a place, it’s a coordinated program of comprehensive cancer prevention, detection, treatment, rehabilitation and support services. It is staffed by oncology experts — physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technologists and therapists who strive to provide a compassionate approach to cancer treatment and care…
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After a two-year hiatus, NorthBay Health Foundation is launching its re-envisioned structure and mission this fall, under the guidance of a new board of directors, and new NorthBay Health Foundation President Paul McGinty. Given the post-pandemic crunch that nonprofit hospitals are facing around the country — with inflation, high labor costs and low reimbursement rates, NorthBay Health…
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Check us out! A new name, a bold look, new colors, but the same trusted health care partner you’ve come to expect from an organization that has grown up in Solano County and continues to serve the patients of our community under the same, sustaining mission: Compassionate Care, Advanced Medicine, Close to Home. Today we’re…
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Stephanie Toy, M.D., specializes in pediatrics and family medicine and joins NorthBay Health after providing pediatric care at a local independent pediatric care group. Her practice is at NorthBay Health Primary Care, Vacaville. She earned her medical degree at Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia and holds a master of science degree in bioengineering from the…
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As NorthBay Health charts its road to economic recovery, it does so with several new faces on its executive team, all committed to dynamic leadership and creative approaches to building a sustainable health care system that will continue to serve the community for years to come. Paul McGinty, President of NorthBay Health Foundation. Paul came…
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