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Sonoma Valley Hospital Extends Project Pink For Year-Round Access
Sonoma Valley Hospital is now offering no-cost mammogram screenings year-round for uninsured and underinsured Sonoma Valley women who are 40 years or older. The screening program, known as Project Pink, is made available as a community service through a special grant...
Un salto hacia la primavera
Informe del director de la junta, abril del 2022 Parece que ha llegado la primavera con tantas buenas noticias que comunicar de nuestra reunión de la Junta Directiva de abril. Socio comunitario destacado: La Luz Center La junta agradeció la presentación de Leonardo...
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation to Host Educational Annual Women’s Health Symposium in Partnership with UCSF Health
Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation, in partnership with UCSF Health, will host its second annual Women's Health Symposium and luncheon fundraiser May 18th, 2022, at the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, California. This in-person educational event offers an opportunity for...
Springing Forward
April 2022 Board Chair Report It feels like spring has sprung with so much good news to report from our April Board meeting. Community Partner Spotlight: La Luz Center The Board appreciated a presentation by Leonardo Lobato, Executive Director of La Luz Center, who...
What’s happening this April:
Project Pink (now year-round!)HealthTalk: Walk-the-WalkAdvance Healthcare Directive Workshops Community Covid Update Now Serving the Women of our Community with No-Cost Mammogram Screenings Year-Round Using State-of-the-Art Technology Sonoma Valley Hospital is...
Sonoma Valley Hospital and Vintage House Offer Advance Healthcare Directive Workshops
The next time your doctor asks if you have an Advance Healthcare Directive, wouldn’t it be nice to answer, “yes”? Sonoma Valley Hospital and Vintage House, offer an interactive workshop titled “Who Will Speak For You When You Can’t?” that will take the mystery out of...
A Spotlight On The Hospital’s Future
Board Chair Report, March 2022 The future of the hospital came into sharper focus in two reports made to the board at last week’s meeting, and I have to say the future is exciting. We first had an update on the UCSF affiliation from Shelby Decosta, Senior Vice...
Benjamin Armfield Named CFO For Sonoma Valley Hospital
Sonoma Valley Hospital has named Benjamin J. Armfield as its new Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Ken Jensen, who recently retired. Armfield brings considerable experience in financial and operational roles with community hospitals and medical centers in...
Nuestras acciones importan
Actualización comunitaria acerca de la COVID del director ejecutivo, 11 de febrero (actualizado el 13 de febrero) Durante los últimos meses, hemos perdido más miembros de nuestra comunidad debido a COVID que en cualquier otro momento de la pandemia. Esto es trágico no...
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The New SVH Strategic Plan
We just completed the annual update to SVH’s three-year rolling strategic plan. It’s an important document that reinforces our mission and values, and identifies near-term objectives. This plan was developed by a committee of board members, physicians and hospital...
Celebrating 70 Years of Community Spirit
I know I say it often, but it bears repeating that Sonoma Valley Hospital is a community hospital in the truest sense of the term. Community spirit has been part of our DNA for 70 years. It was evident in the creation of the Sonoma Valley Health Care District in 1946...
Sonoma Valley Hospital Is A Model For Safety and Quality
(This is a guest blog by Jane Hirsch, Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board Chair.)Two years ago Consumer Reports named SVH one of the safest hospitals in the country, and over the past several years the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has...
Today’s Community Hospital Requires Creativity and Nimbleness
Community hospitals face two seemingly contradictory realities today. The first is to operate with an ever-increasing level of efficiency in response to the financial pressures brought about by health care reform and government mandates to reduce inpatient care. The...
Survey Shows How Much Our Community Values Its Hospital
Many believe that how a community hospital is perceived largely depends on the community’s answers to four questions:Is quality of care high?Is the care safely delivered?Is the hospital financially sustainable?Are patients satisfied?In the past five years, we’ve seen...
The New Community Hospital
The past several years have been challenging ones for small hospitals as disruptive trends in health care have forced community hospitals to rethink their role to remain viable. I believe we’ve made remarkable progress here in Sonoma, using our small size to nimbly...
Why Population Health Is A Strategic Priority
Each year, we update our strategic plan not only to chart our progress and create a vision to share with our community, but also because it causes us to carefully consider our role in the shifting landscape that is health care today.In creating the Hospital’s 2016...
Five Years Later, A New SVH
As 2015 began, we paused to take a look at the past five years. Since coming to this wonderful hospital in 2010, I have been fortunate to see so much great progress. It is a gratifying and amazing experience to describe how our staff, physicians, board, stakeholders...
SVH 2014: A YEAR TO REMEMBER
I can honestly say that 2014 was the most challenging year in my career.When I did my residency for my MHA in 1991, I remember being told that the “good old days” when insurance payments covered the cost for most patients using the hospital were over. There were many...
A Pivotal Year For SVH
Looking back at the past fiscal year, it’s clear that we turned the corner on the transformation of Sonoma Valley Hospital. We can point to progress in almost every area where we needed to see improvement and met goals that were set when I arrived four years...
Hospital Resuming Normal Services
The hospital has begun resuming normal operations, including offering elective procedures and scheduling outpatient surgeries, Chief Medical Officer Sabrina Kidd, MD, reported to the board at the monthly meeting last week. While the hospital continues to offer a...
Hospital Provides COVID-19 Update
The board received an update at the April meeting from Chief Medical Officer Sabrina Kidd, MD, and CEO Kelly Mather on COVID-19 preparedness which illustrated the impressive efforts that hospital leadership, physicians...
Hospital Prepared For Coronavirus
At the March board meeting, Chief Medical Officer Sabrina Kidd, MD, updated the board on the extensive preparations the hospital has undertaken for the growing Novel Coronavirus outbreak. She noted that the hospital is as prepared as it can be for what is a rapidly...
Quality And Safety Are A Priority At SVH
At the February board meeting, we received a comprehensive report from Danielle Jones, the hospital’s Chief Quality Officer, about the hospital’s impressive ongoing efforts to ensure SVH patients receive high quality, safe care. Danielle noted our hospital performs at...
SNF Transition Has Gone Smoothly
I’d like to begin this report by noting that I have assumed the position of board chair as of the January meeting, and want to thank Joshua Rymer on behalf of the entire board for his excellent work as chair over the past two years. His term has covered a critical...
Community Group Undertakes Comprehensive, Independent Review of Our Hospital
The board received a report at the December meeting from a group of citizens who took the time, on their own initiative, to independently evaluate the fiscal and operational health of the hospital and to investigate concerns expressed by some in the community about...
Construction To Begin On Phase One Of Outpatient Diagnostic Center
At last week’s board meeting, the board approved funding to allow construction to begin on the Outpatient Diagnostic Center. This first phase is to replace vital equipment that is approaching ‘end of life’ and without which our Emergency Department cannot function....
Listening To Our Community
As many of you know, we conducted a survey this summer to better understand community perceptions of the hospital. It updated a similar survey conducted in 2015. Both were conducted by an independent research firm, and the results were reviewed at the October board...
The Unique Challenges Facing Community Hospitals
I’d like to say how proud I am of the leadership and staff at our hospital, and our board. At a time when many hospitals across the country, including several here in Sonoma County, have either closed or are struggling, we continue to strive to improve both with our...
Setting The Record Straight
I would like to share some of the comments I made at our August board meeting to address misinformation about the hospital that has been circulating in our community recently, especially on social media, including attacks of a personal nature directed at both the...
Sonoma Valley Hospital and Vintage House Announce Virtual Community Health Talks On Medication Therapies
Sonoma Valley Hospital Pharmacist Baqara “Maya” Yoder, PharmD, will lead an information series of virtual talks discussing new and emerging medication therapies for preventing and managing chronic health conditions. The talks are open to the community and are...
Sonoma Valley Hospital To Offer Personal Safe Medication Reviews Online
Sonoma Valley Hospital invites community members to have their medications reviewed for safety in the privacy of their home through an online visit by a hospital pharmacist who can help ensure that there are no potential problems related to drug interactions, dosing,...
Sonoma Valley Health Care District Appoints John Hennelly Sonoma Valley Hospital CEO
The Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board, in conjunction with UCSF Health, has selected John Hennelly to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sonoma Valley Hospital. Hennelly, who will assume the position mid-April, replaces Kelly Mather, who left the...
Nearly 7,000 Vaccinated in Sonoma Valley To Date; Expect Vaccine Availability to Grow in Coming Weeks
Sonoma Valley Hospital and Sonoma Valley Community Health Center report administering 6,745 first-dose Covid-19 vaccinations through late February. Of these, 70 percent of the doses were made available through the efforts of Sonoma Valley Health Partners (SVHP), our...
Update on Covid-19 Vaccination for Sonoma Valley Residents
DATE: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Many COVID-19 Vaccination clinics were cancelled on short notice this past weekend due to unusually severe weather conditions across the country that delayed vaccine delivery. The shipments in route to Sonoma Valley were amongst those...
Second Drive-Through Sonoma Valley Vaccination Clinic Announced – Now Open To Those Age 70 and Older Sunday, February 14, 2021 (1165 Doses Are Planned)
Sonoma Valley Health Partners is providing its second a drive-through COVID-19 Vaccine clinic at Sonoma Valley High School on Sunday, February 14. . Eligibility for this clinic is only for Sonoma County Phase 1(a) Healthcare Workers, Phase 1(b) Sonoma County residents...
Vaccination To Begin For Sonoma Valley Residents 75 and Older
Sonoma Valley Health Partners is providing a drive-through COVID-19 Vaccine clinic at Sonoma Valley High School over two days beginning Saturday, February 6. The vaccine is currently available only for those Phase 1(b) Sonoma County residents age 75 and older AND...
Empiezan las vacunaciones para los residentes del valle de Sonoma de 75 años y más
Sonoma Valley Health Partners estará proporcionando una clínica de vacunación contra la COVID-19 con acceso desde el automóvil de dos días comenzando el sábado, 6 de febrero. Actualmente, la vacuna está disponible exclusivamente para los residentes del condado de...
SVH To Hold Community Meeting To Review Sonoma County’s COVID-19 Vaccination Plans
Updated: Thursday, January 14, 2021Virtual SVH Townhall Session held Tuesday, January 12, (ENGLISH) LINKCopy of Dr. Kidd's Presentation (English): VIEW or Download Copia de la presentación del Dr. Kidd: AQUI Sonoma Valley Hospital will host a virtual Community...
Sonoma Valley Hospital realizará una reunión comunitaria para revisar los planes de vacunación del condado de Sonoma contra la COVID-19
Copia de la presentación del Dr. Kidd: AQUI Sonoma Valley Hospital patrocinará una reunión comunitaria virtual el martes 12 de enero a las 11:30 a.m. para que la comunidad pueda aprender acerca de las vacunas actualmente disponibles contra la COVID-19 y el proceso de...