Healthcare News – Page 3

Preparing the Next Generation to Be Our First Responders

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 […]

Fourth Star for Veterans Program

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 […]

Know Your After-Hours Medical Choices

Physician Assistant Rita Keileh examines a cut on Jodi Danley’s fingers during a NorthBay Urgent Care visit. It’s good to have choices, unless those choices leave you confused. That’s why anyone needing medical care after […]

Urgent Care Center Opens at Nut Tree

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 […]

Surgeon Shares Patient’s Desire to Raise Awareness

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 […]

NorthBay Medical Center Addition Right on Schedule

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 […]

Longtime Leader Stepping Down

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. […]

Welcome New Physician

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 […]

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 […]

NICU Earns Press Ganey’s Guardian of Excellence Award

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 […]

Foundation Receives Generous Gift

NorthBay Healthcare Foundation learned late last year that long-time Fairfield resident Bessie Day had willed a gift of $200,000 to NorthBay Healthcare. Bessie Day loved her job serving the residents of Fairfield first as secretary […]

#HealthTipTuesday: ‘Engage-Mint’ Reminder

You’ve liked us on Facebook, now NorthBay wants to take our relationship to a whole new level. We want you to be engaged. Don’t just follow our #HealthTipTuesday posts—share them. Comment on them! By doing […]

Welcome New Physicians

The NorthBay Center for Primary Care welcomes two new family practitioners to its practice: Marikit Bituin Parker, M.D., earned her medical degree from Silliman University Medical School in the Philippines. She completed post-graduate training in […]

Get Your Flu Shot

Annual Flu Shot is Healthy Choice October is the start of flu season and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend getting your annual flu shot as soon as the vaccine becomes available. […]

Grateful Recipient is a Blood Drive Champion When Vacaville resident Suzanne Clark was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome in 2013, she required five treatments of a special blood product, and each one required 1,000 units of […]

New Faces in High Places

Chief Quality Officer Adds Duties, Operations Focus NorthBay Healthcare Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Nicole Brocato has added the title of vice president of Operations to her role at NorthBay Healthcare. She has been […]

More Room for Emergency Care

First Phase of Emergency Department Expansion Opens at NorthBay Medical Center The newly enlarged Emergency Department at NorthBay Medical Center is now open to the public. It is the first of three construction phases that […]

Trauma Center Earns High Marks

NorthBay Trauma Center received an impressive review from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), earning a three-year verification, the most possible, during a recent assessment by the nationally known leader in trauma. At the conclusion […]

Canopy Health

Canopy Health Alliance Offers Broad Access A contract between Western Health Advantage (WHA) and Canopy Health, (a new provider-owned health care alliance started by UCSF and John Muir Health) offers Bay Area employees the opportunity […]

Growing Strong

Medical Center’s Modernization Project Grows The first phase of a $157 million modernization of NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield is slated to open in the third quarter of 2019. The three-story, 77,000-square-foot wing will be […]

Care ’til 8: A NorthBay Advantage One of the many advantages of being a NorthBay Healthcare patient is that Care ’til 8 is at your service. Launched at the Center for Primary Care locations in […]

Specialists Abound

Specialists Abound for Easy Access NorthBay Healthcare doesn’t just offer a great selection of primary care physicians, it also puts a strong slate of specialists in your corner. Not only do NorthBay’s team of more […]

When to Call an Ambulance

Your child falls and you suspect a broken bone. Or, an adult grabs their chest in sudden pain. Your first panicked instinct might be to pile everyone into the car and drive to an Emergency […]

N.P.s and P.A.s

Meet the Providers on Your Health Care Team What is a Nurse Practitioner? A nurse practitioner, or N.P., is an advanced practice nurse with specialized training to diagnose and treat illness. A registered nurse acquires […]

Adding Accessibility

Making Specialists More Accessible If you’ve been to a Center for Primary Care (CPC) recently, you might have noticed something new—specialists’ offices. “In an effort to make care more convenient for patients, some of our […]

Mayo Clinic Care Network

Patients Benefit from Mayo Clinic Care Network The exceptional care NorthBay Healthcare patients receive has been made even better thanks to a collaborative relationship with Mayo Clinic, launched in May 2016. NorthBay is a proud […]

Viva Cinco K

Running for Kids, Tacos Team NorthBay members showed up in force, wearing their “Your Wellness—It’s Why We’re Here” T-shirts on a sunny Saturday morning in May to run, jog and walk in the third annual […]

Welcome New Doctors

Welcome New Physicians Hossein Dehghani, M.D., an interventional cardiologist, has joined NorthBay Medical Group in Fairfield. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in internal medicine at […]