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After our daughter was born, the Milwaukee hospital provided us a candlelight dinner in a nearby vacant room. When Nancy Hinds first opened her Fresno hospice, she'd place a rose on a bed for a day after a patient died. Aboard a Princess cruise ship to...
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The progress on our Clovis campus expansion continues and is now stretching in even more directions! This week landmark sign depicted below was raised on what I call “the crown jewel” of the expansion project – a 20,000 square-foot Health Education and...
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...that's the reported percent of surveyed Americans admitting they don't follow the treatment plan from their doctors. When healthcare workers were asked if they felt the patients were compliant, 95% felt they were not. I guess if this whole healthcare...
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Numbers are routinely used as political punching bags by office-seekers. Here are new facts to start a fracas. California has now slipped to 9th place among the world's leading economies, behind Brazil (their economy, $2.1 trillion; ours, $1.9 trillion,...
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...what do ya think of when you see the word? Delicacy, expensive, rare, and special occasions, right? Would you have thought of the word "morgue"? What?!? Yep, apparently in St. Petersburg, Russia, local law enforcement agents found about 385 pounds...
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I regularly shake my head at what lawmakers propose (like suggesting a quota of landscapers and bookkeepers based on the number of patients a hospital treats) and how CEOs who run businesses into bankruptcy still walk away pocketing millions. That may...
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I'm sure many of you were experiencing both (with some bubbly) on New Year's Eve. But did ya know there is a "serious side" to that laughter stuff? Yep, it can be very medically therapeutic and healing and reduce big time stress. Laughter is scientifically...
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There are lots of ways to be overwhelmed. Standing on a ridge overlooking the Pacific, water churning from a discharge vent of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. A gorgeous day. One moment, on a nail-biting, single-lane road to the ah-ha promontory...
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I ride a motorcycle and so am always interested in hearing about enhancing safety for that hobby. I was pleased to read an article recently about an inflatable jacket that deploys if there is an impact...like airbags in vehicles. The company "Dainese...
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My daughter's chin was split by a friend's errant golf club. The ER doc wanted to stitch it without anesthetic. The nurse chided him to a less painful outcome. Really, what was the doc thinking, I say from the perspective of 30 years? A patient was having...
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...you know, "feel-o-meter" for those of you who do not speak German. Apparently, there are some creative artists in Lindau, Germany, that combined art and technology resulting in an interactive product. A monstrous-sized Smiley face is mounted on a lighthouse...
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Here are some excerpts from an e-mail we received from a recent patient who came in through Clovis Community Medical Center's Emergency Department in December. It is with great pride that I am able to share what it means to have OUTSTANDING CAREGIVERS...
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How do you refurbish a thread-bare topic, something worn thin by endless discussion? Try a new angle/idea or some zippy quotes. Take stories about budget deficits, prisons and cutbacks in mental health services. We've bottomed out : "I think there is...
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Trees are seasonal storytellers. Intriguing beginnings. Cloaked in the middle. An inevitable pile up at the end. You wonder where the time went. I conversed with my trees the other day, hauling the fractured limbs, plot lines from the recent windstorm,...
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Our employees take great pride in the fact that Community Medical Centers is the safety net health care provider for the area, serving a 15,000-square-mile region with Level 1 trauma, burn, and high-risk pregnancy/birthing services. That means most years...
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At Community we work really diligently to teach all our employees the importance of little things. We're big on knocking, introducing ourselves, explaining why we're in a patient's room and what's going to happen and when. We all know kindness does wonders...
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I was reviewing the Employee Satisfaction survey results with my team recently, like every one of our management team has with their team (or if they haven’t then this is a reminder). While reviewing the responses to the questions as a whole, we spent...
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Back rubs, 10-day hospital stays for new moms and $15 monthly paychecks. That's how I began a story in February 1997, when I was The Fresno Bee's health care reporter. I was marking the 100th birthday party for Community Medical Centers. As I recall,...
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Frantic. Grim. Inventive. Unintelligible. Repetitively frustrating. Rarely boring. That’s my summation of 2011, tilted toward the political world – where Super Committee in DC is as oxymoronic as balanced budget (or balanced budget on time) is in Sacramento....
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Huh? Well, I was reading about a graduate student at the University of Oxford who recently explored this "effect" which allegedly can cause patients to become genuinely physically ill just by thinking that they are! The power of the grey matter between...
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"Some" is not a number. "Soon" is not a time. So, to the collection of fuzzy words, it seems we must now add "fast track." Case in point. Last January, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors admitted it made a mistake when it closed its mental health...
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...you know, the urge to find meaning or patterns in numbers. Well, it is after all 11/11/11. What does it mean to you? I am not superstitious, nor do I get all caught up in what the configurations could mean, but it is kinda fun when these things come...
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The mob-run restaurant sat on a desolate stretch of Staten Island, N.Y. beachfront. The get-away car, engine idling, waited on the ocean side. Can't recall what I wore, other than running shoes. The owners were way behind in paying for weekly newspaper...
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...Downhill Skiing, Motorcross, Extreme 4-Wheeling, and adopting a Mountain Lion-what could possibly go wrong, right? The activities noted above are certainly not an exhaustive list of what some would consider entertaining and a thrill. More rational...
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Nothing succeeds like excess. To wit: Health and prisons: "The goal up to now has been not to try to change the lives of the criminal, but to make sure they are the healthiest damn criminals in the world. That they live longer, they run faster, and they...
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