by Celia Kruse De La Rosa | May 15, 2014 | Community Updates
A recent New York Times opinion piece addresses the issue of increased utilization of C-sections in U.S. hospitals and the potential risks of this growing practice. The author notes that America’s C-section rate has risen by 50 percent in the past decade, and is now...
by bitsculptor | Jan 15, 2014 | Community Updates, News
Sonoma Valley Hospital announced it will ask the Health Care District Board to delay acting on the Administration’s recent recommendation to close the Hospital’s Obstetrics service. The main reason for the delay, according to Hospital CEO Kelly Mather, is that the...
by bitsculptor | Jan 9, 2014 | Community Updates
SVH administration has recommended to the Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board closure of the Hospital’s Obstetrics service in 2014. Healthy births would be handled elsewhere and only women with obstetrical emergencies would be treated by the Hospital in its...