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News is always happening at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo! From new programs and recognitions to building expansions and community events, read the lastest hospital happenings by clicking on the links below.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Chip Visci, associate vice president for strategic communications at Cal Poly, has been elected chair of the Governing Board at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center for 2012. Visci has served on the Board for three years, the past year as secret...
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Rollie Pirkl has been named Chief Financial Officer at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. In that capacity he will oversee all financial, accounting, admitting, case management, information systems, health information systems and materials ma...
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center recently added two experienced professionals to its leadership team. Earlier this month Sierra Vista welcomed Darlene O’Connor as Director, Medical Staff Services and Lisa Vinson, Director, Case Management.
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Tom Jones, Regional Director of Government Relations for Pacific Gas & Electric and Patrick Vaughan, MD, a family practice physician in Morro Bay, have been elected to the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center Governing Board.
Jones, well k...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines®–Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that Sierra Vista has reached an aggressive goal of treating h...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has earned the prestigious Blue Distinction Center designation for spine surgery by Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, two of the largest providers of health insurance in California.
The Blue Distinction Centers ini...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has pledged to participate in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative, a new public-private collaboration between the government, hospitals and other health care prov...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for its Heart Failure Program by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-spec...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Following a rigorous on-site evaluation and demonstrating compliance with nationally developed standards for stroke care, Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for certification as a Primary Str...
Friday, March 11, 2011 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has become the first hospital in San Luis Obispo County to have all imaging services within the hospital accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR). This designation follows the hospital’s most recent ...
Monday, December 06, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has received funding from corporate parent Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) to refurbish patient rooms and common areas throughout the hospital. The $650,000 project commenced earlier this month.
“Sierra...
Thursday, November 04, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been awarded a bronze Organ Donation Medal of Honor. The Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services issued the award at its sixth annual National Learning Congress for the Donation...
Monday, October 25, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center announced today that it has received two CIGNA quality designations and one Centers of Excellence designations for 2010. These quality designations mean that Sierra Vista has met rigorous quality criteria based o...
Monday, September 27, 2010 San Luis Obispo (September 27, 2010) – 3M today announced that Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, is a finalist in the company’s “Innovation Award” Contest. Starting today, through October 8, the community is invited to visit www.3mhaicontest.co...
Monday, September 20, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in Nuclear Medicine as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology (ACR). This designation is in addition to Mammography, Ultrasound, Bre...
Monday, August 16, 2010 New Teleneurology Capability Ensures Around the Clock Emergency Room Coverage for Stroke & Any Other Neurologic Emergency
One minute you’re fine and the next thing you know you’re not. Suddenly, your vision becomes blurry, you start to slur yo...
Monday, August 02, 2010 Candace L. Markwith, Chief Executive Officer at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, has been elected to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Western States Task Force. She will serve a one year term that began on July 1.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010 Sometimes the most painful part about going to the emergency room (ER) is the wait time. Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, recently introduced a new way for patients to find out ER wait times, before they ever leave the house.
Before heading to...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 Gil Stork, Ed.D., superintendent/president of Cuesta College, has been elected to the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center Governing Board. Stork will fill the remaining term of Dave Pelham, former superintendent/president of Cuesta College, who lef...
Thursday, June 10, 2010 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has received the Get With The GuidelinesSM–Heart Failure Gold Performance Achievement Award and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) Gold Performance Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognitio...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Dozens of Sierra Vista employees were honored during the annual National Nurses & Hospital Week Celebration held at the hospital.
The 2010 Sierra Vista Leadership Awards went to Judy Taylor, a physical therapist and Christina Newsom, unit secre...
Thursday, April 22, 2010 Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) announced today that Sierra Vista Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has been named to the company’s 2010 Circle of Excellence.
The Circle of Excellence honors Tenet hospitals that have achieved t...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010 Women who undergo routine mammograms at Sierra Vista’s Selma Carlson Diagnostic Center have some of the latest in imaging quality and comfort technology available to them. Sierra Vista features the state-of-the-art Selenia™ digital mammography syst...
Friday, January 15, 2010 Tenet Healthcare, parent-corporation to Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo County, is supporting the relief efforts in Haiti in many ways. Tenet donated $50,000 to the American Red Cross and launched a nationwide campaign in i...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 The state-of-the-art da Vinci® Surgical System arrived today at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center for installation. Sierra Vista will be the first in San Luis Obispo County to offer robotic minimally invasive surgery. Surgeons will undergo traini...
Monday, December 14, 2009 Kristen Yetter, general manager and president of Promega Biosciences in San Luis Obispo, has been elected Chair of the Governing Board at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center for 2010. Yetter has served on the Sierra Vista Board for two years, the p...
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center announced today that it has received six (6) CIGNA quality designations and one (1) Centers of Excellence designations for 2009. These quality designations mean that Sierra Vista has met rigorous quality crite...
Thursday, October 08, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been selected for the 2009 Best of San Luis Obispo Award in the Hospitals category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding l...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in Ultrasound, Breast Ultrasound and Computed Tomography as the result of a recent survey by the American College of Radiology. The accreditation gives assuranc...
Monday, August 03, 2009
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association are recognizing Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center for its performance in treating cardiac and stroke patients using the association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM program. Sierra Vista ...
Sunday, July 19, 2009 The Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center Volunteer Auxiliary has new leadership. Hope Smith was elected president of the Executive Board, taking over duties from Alice York, who served as president for the last two years. Smith has been a volunteer ...
Sunday, June 14, 2009 Two employees were recognized for their outstanding leadership while another was honored for 40 years of service as Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center recently recognized more than 80 employees at its annual Employee Service Awards Dinner.
The 20...
Friday, June 05, 2009 Claire Grantham, RN, infection prevention nurse at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, was one of 11 infectious disease nurses recognized nationally in the annual “Who’s Who in Infection Prevention” by Infection Control Today, a national trade pub...
Friday, May 01, 2009 A team of nurses at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center have been recognized for its multi-disciplinary approach to significantly reduce the use of foley catheters at the hospital by ADVANCE for Nurses magazine, a national nursing trade publication...
Thursday, March 05, 2009 The Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center Volunteer Auxiliary needs your help. From patient and family support to informational services and clerical duties, additional volunteers are needed throughout the hospital, everyday of the week. If you’r...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center recently completed expansion of the only Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) between Santa Barbara and Salinas with the addition of six beds. The additional six beds will now provide care to 22 infants. T...
Monday, January 26, 2009 A collaboration between Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center and the Liberty Tattoo Removal Program, has received national recognition by the American Hospital Association in its publication Community Connections: Ideas & Innovations for Hos...
Monday, January 05, 2009 Vance Rodgers, MD, has been elected Chief of Staff at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center for 2009. He assumes the leadership of the nearly 350 member medical staff at the County’s largest hospital from Philip Borgardt, MD. A board certified gastro...
Monday, December 22, 2008 Maggie Cox, owner of San Luis Obispo-based advertising and public relations agency Barnett Cox & Associates, has been elected Chair of the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center Governing Board for 2009. Cox has been on the Sierra Vista Governing ...
Friday, December 12, 2008 Physicians at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center will now be able to monitor the labor progress of their patients from home. The hospital has successfully launched a new electronic medical record and clinical documentation system in their...
Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center has taken a leadership role in a multi-agency collaboration to establish a Memory Identification Program that integrates community and hospital resources to facilitate appropriate and timely care of patients affe...
PUBLIC INFORMATION UPDATE
As of August 20, 2010, San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department has reported 317 cases of pertussis (Whooping Cough) to the California Department of Public Health. As numbers continue to rise here,and across the s...
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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’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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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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