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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Sutter Lakeside Hospital is currently experiencing technical issues with its mammography unit and is temporarily unable to offer mammogram services.
“We are partnering with our sister affiliate, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, to provide mammography services and ensure our patients continue to receive excellent care,” said Siri Nelson, chief administrative officer, Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
“Because SPMF also uses the Sutter Electronic Health Record, doctors and nurses across the system can communicate with one another and provide continuity of care,” Nelson said. “We hope to have our equipment up and running soon; in the meantime, we will continue to serve our community with compassion and excellence.”
Sutter Lakeside Hospital’s dedicated imaging staff will help patients schedule appointments with Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in Santa Rosa upon request.
For more information about Sutter Lakeside Hospital, visit www.sutterlakeside.org or call 707-262-5121.
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- Written by: Morgen Wells
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is updating its warning to consumers regarding certain seafood caught along the California coastline that may contain high levels of domoic acid.
Advisories continue to be in place for:
– Consumers to avoid eating recreationally and commercially caught Dungeness and Rock crabs caught in waters between the Oregon border and the southern Santa Barbara County line, due to the persistent dangerous levels of domoic acid in these species.
– Consumers to avoid eating recreationally harvested bivalve shellfish (mussels and clams) from Humboldt or Del Norte counties. The white meat (adductor muscle) of scallops caught in these areas may be consumed; however, the viscera (internal organs) should be discarded.
However, an advisory is no longer in place for bivalve shellfish like mussels and clams or for small finfish like anchovies and sardines caught in the Santa Cruz, Monterey, or Santa Barbara County areas.
Recent testing has determined that domoic acid has declined and remained at undetectable levels in samples of these species from these areas.
CDPH is continuing to work with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which recently issued emergency regulations closing the recreational and commercial Rock crab fishery and delaying the start of the recreational and commercial Dungeness crab fishery between the Oregon border and the Ventura / Santa Barbara County Line due to dangerous levels of domoic acid found in crabs caught from these areas.
Domoic acid accumulation in seafood is a natural occurrence that is related to a ‘bloom’ of a particular single-celled plant in ocean waters.
The conditions that support the growth of this plant are impossible to predict. CDPH will continue its efforts to collect a variety of samples from impacted areas to monitor the level of domoic acid in seafood.
Symptoms of domoic acid poisoning can occur within 30 minutes to 24 hours after eating toxic seafood. In mild cases, symptoms may include vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headache and dizziness. These symptoms disappear within several days.
In severe cases, the victim may experience trouble breathing, confusion, disorientation, cardiovascular instability, seizures, excessive bronchial secretions, permanent loss of short-term memory (a condition known as Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning), coma or death. There have been no reported illnesses associated with this event.
To receive updated information about shellfish poisoning and quarantines, call CDPH’s toll-free Shellfish Information Line at 800-553-4133.
For additional information visit CDPH’s Natural Marine Toxins: PSP and Domoic Acid information sheet and CDPH’s Domoic Acid health information page.
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- Written by: California Department of Public Health
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