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This free flu vaccination clinic is open to the public for ages 7 years old and up.
Vaccinations will be given on a first come, first serve basis. No appointments are necessary. Walk-ins are welcome.
Please come by the Sutter Lakeside Hospital campus at 5176 Hill Road East in Lakeport on Dec. 20 and follow the signs to the Mobile Health Unit.
If you have any questions, please call 707-262-5076.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – David Santos, a proven leader with years of healthcare management experience, has been appointed the new vice president of operations at St. Helena Hospital Clearlake, succeeding Jennifer Swenson.
He begins his service Jan. 2.
Santos has an extensive healthcare background, having most recently served as chief operating officer of Adventist Health’s California Medical Group, where he strengthened operations and significantly expanded the group’s size.
Prior to that he played a key role in the advancement of physician services at Adventist Health Hospitals in Hanford, Calif.
Other experience includes service in physician practice management at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Manhattan, and hospital management assignments at Central Texas Medical Center near San Antonio and at the Ormond Beach Florida Hospital.
“We are very fortunate that David has agreed to become our new Vice President of Operations, said St. Helena Hospital President and Chief Executive Officer Terry Newmyer. “He brings the energy, experience and leadership skills we need to continue building on the progress we’ve made expanding and improving services at St. Helena Hospital Clearlake.”
“This is an important time of growth and development for St. Helena Hospital Clearlake, and I’m honored to have the opportunity to help guide the facility as we continue our mission of improving the health of our community,” said Santos.
The hospital’s former vice president of operations, Jennifer Swenson, has departed to become chief executive officer of the 185-bed Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, Ohio.
St. Helena Hospital Clearlake is a 25-bed acute care Critical Access Hospital serving South Lake County.
St. Helena Hospital Clearlake is part of Adventist Health, a not-for-profit, faith-based health system operating in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
For more information, visit www.adventisthealth.org.
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“We need good measures of emergency care, and of emergency room care for children in particular,” said James Marcin, professor of pediatric critical care medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and the co-principal investigator for the study. “While some quality instruments have been developed for pediatric emergency care, few have been tested or applied as we’re proposing on such a large scale.”
The study, funded through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will examine the effectiveness of the Pediatric Emergency Department Quality Assessment Tool, developed at UC Davis and used to successfully identify factors associated with quality of care in a small group of rural Northern California emergency departments with very sick pediatric patients.
The study will expand the research to include more than 600 diverse pediatric patients in 12 emergency departments in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), the only federally funded pediatric emergency care research network in the U.S.
PECARN is organized into four research nodes, including one led by UC Davis. The study will retrospectively review the medical records of children presenting to PECARN emergency departments, with records randomly selected from three hospitals in each of the research nodes.
The researchers will review the records for quality of care using the instrument, which assesses initial data-gathering about acute problems; integration of information and development of appropriate diagnoses; the initial treatment plan and orders, and the plan for patient disposition and follow-up.
The study will also identify whether such factors as emergency department volume, type of emergency department and physician training are associated with differences in the quality of pediatric emergency care.
“Once validated across a large and diverse sample, this tool will assist in the identification of areas where emergency departments can make a significant, positive difference in quality of care for children,” said Madan Dharmar, study co-principal investigator and assistant research professor in the UC Davis Department of Pediatrics.
Other study investigators include Nathan Kuppermann, professor and chair of emergency medicine, and Patrick Romano, professor of internal medicine and pediatrics and a noted quality-of-care expert. PECARN is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program.
The UC Davis School of Medicine is among the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs.
The school offers fully accredited master's degree programs in public health and in informatics, and its combined M.D.-Ph.D. program is training the next generation of physician-scientists to conduct high-impact research and translate discoveries into better clinical care.
Along with being a recognized leader in medical research, the school is committed to serving underserved communities and advancing rural health.
For more information, visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/medschool.
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Flu shots will be given Monday through Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Patients who already have a scheduled appointment will be given a vaccine during their clinic appointment.
The clinic, which is located at 15145 Lakeshore Drive, Clearlake, opened for patient care on Nov. 1.
For more information about the Clearlake VA Clinic call 707-995-7200.
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