Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center was recognized with an “A” Hospital Safety Score by the Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The A score was awarded in the latest upda...
Friday, March 29, 2013 The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has designated Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center a Blue Distinction Center+ for Spine Surgery, Blue Distinction’s “Total Value” designation. This designation signifies that Sierra Vista has met nationall...
Monday, December 03, 2012 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center was honored with an “A” Hospital Safety Score by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The A score was awarded in the latest update...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Each year the American Red Cross provides assistance to more than two million service members and many of our nation’s 24 million veterans. They support military families, active military members and provide emergency communications across the globe...
Friday, October 05, 2012 Last month, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center was recognized as a Gold Level Recipient of the American Heart Association’s Fit-Friendly Worksites Recognition program. The Fit-Friendly Worksites program is a catalyst for positive change. Worksites...
Friday, September 14, 2012 Congratulations to Kathy Wyatt, Director of Food & Nutrition at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. Out of 950 accounts throughout the country, her team has earned the Morrison National Account of the Year! In addition to the fabulous food the...
Thursday, July 19, 2012 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has earned the 2012 Performance Excellence Award from the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes. The award recognizes the hospital for outstanding performance in Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers. ...
Friday, July 13, 2012 Joyce Amador was recognized by Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center on the occasion of her 50th Anniversary of service to Tenet Healthcare and its predecessor companies. The Santa Maria resident spent the first 37 years of her career at the former V...
Monday, July 02, 2012 Shannon Downing, marketing manager at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, was named Volunteer of the Month by the Central Coast Division of the American Heart Association for the month of June. Downing coordinated the first-ever “Saving Strokes” e...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center recently sponsored the Inaugural San Luis Obispo County Saving Strokes Golf Event. The event is organized through the American Stroke Association and encourages stroke survivors and their caregivers to get out an...
Friday, June 15, 2012 New, high-definition cameras are giving doctors at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo an up close and personal look at your insides.
Bryn Johnson is one of many patients to undergo a routine procedure called an endoscopy.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Debbie Doubledee, RN was honored as Nurse of the Year at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center during the recent National Nurses’ Week celebration. Doubledee, a nurse in the short stay unit, was selected among dozens of nominations from the nursing s...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 The annual Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center service awards celebration brought together more than 100 hospital employees, recognized for their dedication and outstanding leadership. The 2012 Sierra Vista Leader of the Year award went to Maria ...
Monday, April 16, 2012 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center volunteer Donnie Jensen was named “Outstanding Volunteer of the Year” and volunteer Amanda Johnson was honored as “Sweetheart Volunteer of the Year” at the hospital’s 38th Annual Volunteer Awards Luncheon. The ev...
Sunday, April 01, 2012 High definition television is making its way from the living room to the hospital room. Now, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center is among the first hospitals on the Central Coast to introduce the technology as part of a new endoscope platform to he...
Thursday, February 02, 2012 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center announced today that Remonia Ashmore, director of nursing, med/surg unit, has been inducted into the Tenet Heroes Hall of Fame, Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s (NYSE: THC) highest honor for employees, at a ceremon...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Tenet Healthcare Corporation [NYSE: THC] announced today that Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been named to the company’s 2012 Circle of Excellence.
The Circle of Excellence honors Tenet hospitals that have achieved the highest levels ...
Thursday, September 15, 2011 The Volunteer Auxiliary at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center recently donated $12,200 in funding and scholarships to 16 local organizations. The four largest grants included $2,000 to the Cal Poly Endowment Fund and $1500 to the Eleanor Sears Cu...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Following many months of implementing clinical quality standards, The Selma Carlson Diagnostic Center at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology (ACR). Selma...
Thursday, June 16, 2011 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center volunteer Marsha Carlson was named “Outstanding Volunteer of the Year” and volunteer Shirley Weitkum was honored as “Sweetheart Volunteer of the Year” at the hospital’s 37th Annual Volunteer Awards Luncheon. The ...
Monday, June 06, 2011 The annual Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center service awards celebration brought together more than 100 hospital employees, recognized for their dedication and outstanding leadership. The 2011 Sierra Vista Leader of the Year award went to Ron Ed...
Thursday, April 14, 2011 For the second time in less than a year, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been recognized for its environmental leadership. Sierra Vista was named as Green Coast Award winner by the Pacific Coast Business Times in its April 8 edition.
Sierr...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011 Seeking cancer program accreditation by the Commission on Cancer, Sierra Vista has concentrated its efforts to ensure full compliance of a total of 36 commission standards. To gain approval, it must demonstrate that patients receive the following:
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center is giving expectant mothers another option when it comes to pain management. The hospital recently installed a new hydrotherapy labor tub. Hydrotherapy utilizes the soothing properties of warm water immersion t...
Monday, November 22, 2010 Sierra Vista’s very own “T-Rod” has been pardoned once again this Thanksgiving season. For the second year in a row, this life-sized bird has helped rally support for the San Luis Obispo County Turkey Drive. Three hundred forty turkeys were collecte...
Monday, November 15, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center was recognized with a 2010 Green Award by the San Luis Obispo Chamber of Commerce in recognition of its Going Green at Sierra Vista program. Going Green at Sierra Vista kicked off unofficially in 2008, when the e...
Friday, October 22, 2010 3M Infection Prevention announced that Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center came in a close second in the 3M “Innovation Award” contest, which invited healthcare facilities across the country to showcase original ways of improving patient care and h...
Monday, October 18, 2010 Seeking to bring additional safety to residents of San Luis Obispo County, as well as address its trauma needs, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has plans to install a helistop on its hospital campus. Sierra Vista recently received a commitment ...
Thursday, August 19, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been recognized for achievement in using evidence-based guidelines to provide the best possible care to patients through The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® p...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center employees are making sure underprivileged children in San Luis Obispo County have a new backpack for the first day of school. Employees at the hospital donated more than 60 back packs filled with school supplies ...
Saturday, June 05, 2010 Sierra Vista’s daVinci Surgical Robot finally has a new name thanks to one local fourth grader. Gavin Hughes from Winifred Pifer Elementary in Paso Robles submitted the winning entry, THEO. The name is actually an acronym for Technology Had Endles...
Monday, May 17, 2010 Staff at a local hospital are dancing to their own beat, literally.
They are in the midst of creating a music video using a song composed by a band of doctors and nurses in hopes of being the next Internet sensation.
The tune is to The Beatles so...
Monday, March 01, 2010 Part of the mission of Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center is to continually improve the health of San Luis Obispo County residents. Staying true to this mission, a group of Sierra Vista employees has come together to help feed warm and nutritious ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
On Tuesday, Dr. Elaine Yin of Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center performed the hospital’s first procedure using the daVinci Surgical System — a $1.8 million robot that a physician remotely controls to perform minimally invasive surgical procedur...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center will celebrate its 50th Anniversary Sunday, December 5 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the hospital’s Auditorium. The entire community is invited to celebrate.
In particular anyone who was born at Sierra Vista is invited ba...
Friday, October 30, 2009 A local organization that helps disabled children and a hospital that donates millions of dollars in services were among the winners of the 2009 Central Coast Community Impact Awards.
Honoring recipients that give their time and resources for peop...
Friday, September 11, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Central California are working together to provide children and families access to some of the world’s finest pediatric subspecialties in an environment that is close to home. Beginning in...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 The first U.S. case of H1N1 flu, or swine flu, occurred in April 2009. Since then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that as many as 1 million Americans may have been infected with H1N1 flu.
Most people infected with H1...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 In what is becoming an annual tradition, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center employees donated backpacks filled with school supplies to underprivileged children for the second consecutive year. Team One, a group of dedicated employees that plan emp...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Trauma, as many health care providers know, is a major threat to the life and long-term health of individuals in San Luis Obispo and remains the leading cause of death for people under the age of 44 across the United States. Caring for trauma patie...
Friday, June 12, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center is expanding. Construction is officially underway on a new medical office building. The state-of-the-art facility will be located on-campus, adjacent to the new 523 space parking structure.
Once complete, the t...
Friday, June 12, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and San Luis Sports Therapy have collaborated to bring the ImPACT Concussion Testing Program to seven San Luis Obispo County high schools starting with the 2009-10 academic year. Dr. Otto Schueckler, a sports med...
Friday, June 12, 2009
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center’s achievements in the area of heart care have been recognized with two 2009 Gold Performance Achievement Awards from the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines Program. Sierra Vista earned these...
Sunday, February 01, 2009 She’s the best sandwich maker in the country, and you can find her and her delectable recipes right here at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center’s All Spice Café. Margaux Sky and her mouth-watering sandwiches gained national attention a few year...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 Cigarette smoke is now a thing of the past at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. On January 1, 2009, the entire campus became tobacco-free. As part of an official kick-off celebration to announce the new policy, Rick Ford, Director of Plant O...
Thursday, January 01, 2009 In anticipation of ushering in its 50th Anniversary in 2009, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has adopted a new logo designed to represent the hospital and the community it has served since 1959. Featuring a contemporary illustration of roll...
Monday, December 01, 2008 Joe DeSchryver, Chief Operating Officer at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has a better understanding of what a major natural disaster or terrorist attack would mean to the state of California. In November, DeSchryver spent an entire week a...
Monday, December 01, 2008 It was just another day in the emergency room for Dr. Steven Benaron. The only difference, he was on a white sandy beach surrounded by drying sea kelp and crashing waves. A few months ago, Dr. Benaron finished his call at Sierra Vista Region...
Friday, October 24, 2008 San Luis Obispo (October 24, 2008) – Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been recognized as a UnitedHealth Premium® Surgical Spine Specialty Center. The designation is awarded based on the facility’s commitment to quality healthcare on the Cent...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center will be awarded the Organ Donation Medal of Honor, issued by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, at the fourth annual National Learning Congress and Medal of Honor cere...
Monday, October 06, 2008 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County’s largest hospital, announced last week its intention to be smoke free beginning January 1, 2009. This means the use of all tobacco products will be banned anywhere ...
The Sierra Vista/Twin Cities Regional Heart Center at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center was recognized recently by the American Heart Association for “outstanding achievement in support of the American Heart Association’s efforts in cardiovascula...
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