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...
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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...
Charting A Stable And Sustainable Future
We recently updated the Hospital’s strategic plan, which has proven to be a valuable tool for helping the board and administration set goals and measure our progress in realizing them.While the Hospital’s emphasis has remained constant in recent years – focusing on...
The Impact of Health Care Reform
The need to reinvent our Hospital has been apparent since I arrived here in 2010. It is in part a response to Health Care Reform and the many changes underway in the health care industry, and also because the Hospital required revitalization to better serve the Sonoma...
What It Will Take To Save Obstetrics
Update: Sonoma Valley Hospital announces it will continue its Obstetrics service. More information is available here.As you may know from the recent coverage in our local newspapers, SVH Administration recommended to the Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board at its...
Re-Introducing Sonoma Valley Hospital
On November 16th we had the celebration of the year in Sonoma Valley. (My opinion, of course!) With over 1,000 attendees, we celebrated the opening of our new wing and upgraded facilities. I have been overwhelmed with gratitude because YOU made it possible. In 2008,...
Join Us in November as We Celebrate Our New ER and Surgery Center
I hope you will put a big red circle around November 16th on your calendar, because that’s when we will throw open the front doors to our new Emergency Department and Surgery Center.We’re planning quite a celebration for the community – from an open house and tours to...
Healing and Health Improvement Is Here
January 25, 2013 I am so excited about 2013. As you may or may not know, my passion is health improvement and wellness. Since 1996 when I first became a hospital administrator, I've been experimenting with how hospitals can be "Centers for Health" in the community....