Last week, we discussed some of the problems that developed at Adventist Health (AH) Mendocino Coast Medical Offices as a result of the...

One of the advantages of the affiliation with Adventist Health that we looked forward to was updating our antiquated electronic medical...

On October 4th, I reported on the national shortage of healthcare workers and how this affects us locally. Six months ago, when I wrote...

Sherwood Oaks Nursing Home in Ft. Bragg has undergone a change in ownership and management that is expected to significantly bolster the...

On February 3rd, a community forum was held to discuss how we should address the seismic compliance requirements for our hospital. This...

The national healthcare staffing shortage continues to be particularly hard felt at Sherwood Oaks, our local nursing home in Ft. Bragg. ...

Sherwood Oaks is the local, privately owned nursing home in Ft. Bragg with 79 licensed beds and currently 39 residents. Like so many...

This is the first in a two-part series in which we will examine the national picture for US nursing homes and then next week turn our...

COVID-19 has had many effects on our lives including how we think about information we receive from various sources. We have been...

Our hospital opened its doors on June 26th, 1971, following the formation of the local hospital district in January 1967. There will be a...

This is our final part in the series looking at the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. It started in early 1918 and lasted about two years,...

In Part 1, we examined one theory of how the 1918 influenza virus hopped from horses to chickens to humans and then how the dynamics of...

In 1918, the world experienced a pandemic caused by a particularly virulent strain of the influenza A virus. Over the course of two...

Sometimes I feel that we talk too much about COVID and forget that there is so much else to life and health. As I ponder my own growing...

Breast cancer is the leading cancer in women in the United States; second to skin cancers which except for melanoma are usually not...