NorthBay Healthcare is connecting with local schools and community programs, through a new Healthcare Academy program, with the goal of inspiring the emergency responders of tomorrow. NorthBay Trauma Center and the Fairfield Police Activities League (PAL) team up on the fourth Monday of each month at the PAL “Career Café” program to conduct presentations, provide…
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NorthBay Hospice & Bereavement has earned its fourth star in the We Honor Veterans program, making it the only level-four organization based in Solano County. The national program has helped NorthBay Hospice & Bereavement improve its ability to serve veterans and their families, and to ensure veterans have access to quality end-of-life care, according to…
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Solano County’s first retail-based urgent care clinic opened in the Nut Tree Plaza in January, to a packed house of VIPs—NorthBay Healthcare leaders, board members, civic leaders and lawmakers—just hours before the first patient walked through the front door. An affordable and convenient alternative to the hospital emergency room, NorthBay Urgent Care occupies 4,000 square…
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Petra Pohl didn’t realize when she launched her drive to raise colorectal cancer awareness that her NorthBay Healthcare surgeon, Courtney Chambers, M.D., had also made it his focus. It was a disease that hit close to home for Dr. Chambers, whose wife’s mother died at age 42 from metastatic colon cancer. “An estimated 50,000 people…
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The three-story addition to NorthBay Medical Center is right on schedule to open in the summer of 2019. The roof was completed in December and 80 percent of the windows have been installed, explained Eric VanPelt, project manager. Work is underway on all three floors of the building. On the first and second floors, wall…
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Longtime civic leader G. Ben Huber’s three decades of visionary stewardship of North- Bay Healthcare and other civic organizations came to a close in mid-February when he resigned his post on the Board of Directors. Relocating with his wife, Margaret, to Idaho to be closer to family in full-time retirement, Huber was feted at a…
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Pooja Patricia de Sa, M.D., comes to NorthBay from Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento where she has worked for the past two years as a pulmonary and critical care physician. She is a graduate of Terna Medical College in Mumbai, India and served her residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas Health Science…
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In 2016, it was a collision between a train and two buses that sent 120 people to local hospitals.In 2015, it was an explosion on the Suisun City waterfront, and the year before an Ebola outbreak.In each case it was a test, only a test—part of a drill involving hospitals and first responders throughout the…
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NorthBay Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) was named a 2017 Guardian of Excellence Award® winner by Press Ganey. The Guardian of Excellence Award recognizes top-performing health care organizations that have consistently achieved the 95th percentile or above of performance in the category of the Patient Experience. “This award represents an important recognition from…
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