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Sonoma Valley Hospital Wants Your Thoughts!
If you’ve ever wanted to advise your hospital on the direction you’d like to see it take, now’s your chance. CEO Kelly Mather, the SVH Administration Staff and the SVHCD Board of Directors invite you to a special meeting of the Sonoma Valley Healthcare Board of Directors to learn about and offer your thoughts on our 3-Year Rolling Strategic Plan Draft. The meeting will be held on December 7, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Community Meeting Room on First Street West. What is this about? In early November the Sonoma Valley Hospital Administrative team, key directors, Board members and… Read More
Sonoma Valley Wine Auction Funds Our Need
On Sunday, September 4, at the annual Sonoma Wine Country Weekend, the Sonoma Valley Harvest Wine Auction’s Fund-A-Need Auction Lot granted the Redwood Empire Food Bank and Sonoma Valley Hospital $140,000 to split evenly. Happy hospital and Foundation members filled the stage as the paddles went up. A big thank you to Sonoma!
May is Better Speech and Hearing Month
The month of May is a time to raise public awareness, knowledge and understanding of our complex capabilities of speech, language and voice, and the various ways in which these faculties may become impaired. Dawn Kuwahara, Director of Professional Services says, “Let us celebrate and recognize and honor our speech therapists who dedicate themselves to their patients’ better communication.” – Dawn Kuwahara, Director of Public Services This is also Nurses Week, and Chief Nursing Officer Goni Naidoo, says, “This is a time to celebrate the spirit of nursing all over this country. “Nursing as a concept is inherent in all… Read More
SVH Shares Building Plans With Neighbors
Hospital neighbors got a sneak peek at Sonoma Valley Hospital‘s new building plan, which will retrofit the facility to 2030 seismic standards and add a roughly 16,000-square-foot wing, in a community meeting Tuesday evening. “How does it look, how does it feel, do you feel as a person that it’s a healing environment - those are the pragmatics and poetics that the whole design team must discuss,” said Andy McPherson, an architect with the Sacramento-based Nact & Lewis Architects. “A lot of pre-planning has been done to move this along, many many phases, every aspect of this has been vetted,… Read More