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CMHS Breaks Ground on New Community Memorial Hospital
Santa Paula News, 10/05/2011
Community Memorial Health System broke ground Wednesday, September 14th, for the new Community Memorial Hospital… >>
New hospital to boost economy - Community Memorial’s new facility is scheduled to open in 2015
Camarillo Acorn, 09/23/ 2011
DIG RIGHT IN—Community Memorial Health System broke ground on the new Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura on Sept. 14… >>
Ventura hospital construction expected to bring jobs, spur the economy
Ventura County Star, 09/14/2011
Construction of a new Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura will create new jobs, protect old ones and should help turn a midtown area into a second downtown, city and hospital leaders said at a groundbreaking Wednesday night… >>
Pink Ladies Not Just Do-Good Grandmas
Ojai Valley News Blog, 09/08/2011
You may know of them as the Pink Ladies, Ojai Valley Community Hospital’s volunteer arm, but this isn’t just a do-good group for grandmas anymore… >>
Ojai Hospital gets new doors, signs, Hospital Foundation funding provides much needed improvements
Ojai Valley News, 08/26/2011
The long-range, multi-phase transformation of Ojai Valley Community Hospital is well under way with the latest additions being new automatic doors and a new sign… >>
$350 million from bonds means private Ventura hospital set to begin building
Ventura County Star, 08/17/2011
The wiring of the money culminates a nearly three-year journey in which the nonprofit hospital was turned down by one government loan guarantee program and told by another it would have to dramatically change its plans… >>
Community Memorial Health System on the move
Ojai Valley News, 08/17/ 2011
This past week Community Memorial Health System (CMHS) received the exciting news that commitments have been secured for tax-exempt revenue bond financing to support the long-awaited construction projects for the two hospitals… >>
Exhibit standout: 'Splashes of Color' on display at Ventura hospital
Ventura County Star, 08/11/2011
"Watching Tadpols," an acrylic painting by Nicole Rapattoni, is on display in the "Splashes of Color" exhibit… >>
Ventura City Council agrees to assist hospital with bonds
Ventura County Star, 07/19/2011
Community Memorial Health System's new $320 million replacement hospital got a big boost Monday night when the Ventura City Council agreed to issue $390 million in tax-exempt municipal bonds to finance the midtown facility… >>
Community Memorial Health System Honors Longtime Employees
Ventura County Star, 07/11/2011
Community Memorial Health System honored 306 employees at its annual Service Awards Banquet on June 17, including three employees with 40 years of service and three others who celebrated their 35th anniversary with CMHS… >>
Four CMH Junior Volunteers Earn Maria Cavallo Scholarships
Ventura County Star, 07/02/2011
Community Memorial Hospital’s Auxiliary awarded four members of the hospital’s Junior Volunteers program who plan to pursue careers in healthcare with scholarships totaling $6,500 from its Maria Cavallo Scholarship Fund… >>
CMH demolishes offices to make way for reconstruction
Ventura County Star, 05/27/2011
A crew from Standard Industries works on clearing debris from a parcel where Community Memorial will build a new hospital with an entrance facing Main Street. The current hospital will be used for offices and other support services… >>
CMH to celebrate opening of cancer center
Ventura County Star, 02/22/2011
Community Memorial Hospital on Thursday will celebrate the new Coastal Communities Cancer Center, which opened in November as the Ventura hospital upgrades and expands… >>
Pediatrician joins family health center
Camarillo Acorn, 02/04/2011
Maya Bose Vinod said being a mother of two and practicing medicine in other countries has made her a better, more caring doctor… >>
Green medical clinic greets public
Ventura County Star, 01/25/2011
The floors of the new Vineyard Center for Family Health are made of linseed oil, yeast and bark. The counters are made from crushed root beer bottles, and the carpets in the physicians' offices are recycled… >>
Ojai Valley hospital gains new administrative officer
Ventura County Star, 01/24/2011
A 2001 internship at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura while he was studying public administration at CSU Northridge led Haady Lashkari to find his ideal line of work… >>
Neurologist joins hospital group
Camarillo Acorn, 01/21/2011
Dr. Neda Heidari When the hiring committee from Community Memorial Health System set out last year to find a neurologist and a urologist for its medical group, the recruiters never expected to send offers for both jobs to the same household… >>
Ojai Hospital gets new CAO
Ojai Valley News, 01/19/2011
With just a handful of months to go until his 10-year anniversary with the Community Memorial Health System, Haady Lashkari has just accepted a promotion and is moving into his new office at the Ojai Valley Community Hospital… >>
Concept approved for a new CMH
Ventura Breeze, 12/15/ 2010
The Ventura City Council has ap- proved plans for a new Community Memorial Hospital to be located adjacent to the existing hospital. The existing hospital would be remodeled into offices as part of the new master plan for the site… >>
Ventura council approves plans for new CMH
Ventura County Star, Monday, 12/06/2010
The Ventura City Council on Monday overwhelmingly approved plans for a modernized, six-story Community Memorial Hospital that would be constructed next to the existing hospital campus, which would be used as offices… >>
Common ground for doctors and hospitals: Tricky medical partnership
Ventura County Star, Monday, 10/03/2010
Like teens at a dance, private hospitals and doctors are trying to figure out new ways of asking each other to link arms… >>
Cancer prevention symposium set
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 09/26/2010
While most of us have heard that eliminating tobacco and wearing sunscreen can prevent cancer, new causes of the disease, many related to our environment, are identified regularly… >>
Last month's Hop earns OVCH $30K
Ojai Valley News, Wednesday, 06/09/2010
Nearly 200 Ojai Valley Community Hospital supporters brought the 1950s back to Ojai at “The Hop” on May 15 at St. Thomas Aquinas Hall. The Ojai Valley Community Hospital Foundation Guild is still calculating expenses and donations… >>
Work could begin this year on new $320-million hospital
The Camarillo Acorn, Thursday, 05/14/2010
Gary Wild Construction is expected to start in November on a new $320-million Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, CEO Gary Wilde said last week during the 2010 State of the Hospital address at Poinsettia Pavilion in Ventura… >>
CMH set to break ground on new building in November
Work also planned in Ojai, Oxnard
The Ventura County Star, Thursday, 05/06/2010
Groundbreaking on Community Memorial Hospital’s new $320 million building is scheduled for November, about a month after the hospital’s new cancer center is set to be completed… >>
National search brings specialist to Camarillo center for family health
The Camarillo Acorn, Friday, 04/23/2010
Tammy Cheng Richard Reisman, a vice president with Ventura-based Community Memorial Health System, personally sought out Tammy Cheng in his search for a rheumatologist to bring to Ventura County… >>
Advance directives help families, and hospitals, in a medical crisis
Ventura County Star, Friday, 04/16/2010
Patient rights concerning end-of-life care have become more defined over the past two decades, with the Supreme Court ruling in 1990 that adult patients have the right… >>
Groundbreaking ceremony spotlights Ventura cancer center
Ventura County Star, Friday, 03/25/2010
After a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday to honor the beginnings of a new $8 million cancer center at Community Memorial Hospital, physicians, volunteers and other attendees peered over a wall to view the construction site… >>
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Hospital receives MRI vascular injection pump,
Nightingale Ball $20, 000 auction proceeds made upgrade possible
Ojai Valley News, Wednesday, 02/17/2010
Last November at the eighth annual Ojai Valley Community Hospital Foundation Guild's Nightingale Ball, a "fund a need"auction was held to benefit the hospital… >>
Prep work begins on new CMH cancer center
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 01/20/2010
When a parking lot and three small buildings are torn down next week, they will be the first dominoes toppled in a $320 million chain of events designed to bring a new six-story hospital to Ventura… >>
Local doctor joins aid team headed to Haiti
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 01/29/2010
As many people sat at home watching the news from Haiti, Scott Changchien was boarding an airplane Tuesday to begin a journey to the heart of the earthquake-devastated country… >>
The Future is Robotic Surgery
by Marc A. Beaghler, MD, MPH
12/02/2009
Recently the Star ran an article entitled “Robots’ place in diagnostics, surgeries debated”. The article featured two new technologies, the da Vinci robotic surgical system and a remote robot system named ERNI… >>
Robots' place in diagnostics, surgeries debated
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 11/15/2009
When the doctor is out, the robot is in. As part of a mechanical march stirring debate over the future of hospital care, an Ojai specialist heads a group of doctors who use a 5-foot-tall robot named ERNI for long-distance examinations of stroke patients in an Orange County hospital… >>
Local M.D. discusses link between global warming, disease in seminar
Ventura County Reporter, 11/05/2009
During the decades since mass industrialization and pollution became problem points for people in the United States, environmental advocates forewarned that global warming would become an insurmountable problem in the years to come… >>
An interview with Community Memorial Health System, Part II by Tim Pompey
The Breeze, 11/04/2009
With the debate over health care reaching critical mass in Washington, The Breeze thought it might be helpful to talk with some health care professionals from Community Memorial Health System… >>
An Interview with CMH Healthcare System, Part I by Tim Pompey
The Breeze, 10/07/2009
Michael Ellingson, Vice President, Marketing & Development, Gary Wilde, President & CEO, and David Glyer, Vice President, Finance, sat down with the Breeze to discuss issues related to the current healthcare debate… >>
Ojai gets state-of-art emergency room, department
Ventura County Star, 10/01/2009
Dr. Betsy Patterson is delighted the emergency room she oversees at Ojai Valley Community Hospital has undergone a huge transformation… >>
A healthy step for Ojai Valley hospital
Ventura County Star, 09/27/2009
The long-term health of Ojai Valley Community Hospital, which has already greatly improved since its merger with Community Memorial Hospital San Buenaventura in 2005… >>
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The Art of Medicine - Hospital promotes careers as community doctors
Ventura County Star, 07/27/2009
She saw life, death and pretty much everything in between.
As part of a program designed to show medical students what it means to be a
community doctor.… >>
Athletes post a win off the court
Camarillo Acorn, 07/24/2009
Faculty and students from Camarillo and Rio Mesa high schools present a pair of checks totaling $4,148.24 to officials with the Community Memorial Health System's Centers for Family Health at the Camarillo Center for Family Health on Arneill Road… >>
Hospital workers honored - Five recognized for 35 years of service at CMH, Ojai Valley Community
Ojai Valley News, 07/22/2009
Community Memorial Health System honored 275 employees at Community Memorial and Ojai Valley Community hospitals, including five for their 35 years of service… >>
Doctor donates services to teen athletes
Camarillo Acorn, 07/03/2009
Joe Martinez, the head football coach at Hueneme High School, knows his team will face tough competition in the Pacific View League come fall… >>
Community Memorial Hospital Acknowledged for Heart Bypass Mortality Rate
Ventura Business, July 2009
In a recent government performance report, Community Memorial Hospital’s heart bypass mortality rate of 0.66 was lower than the statewide average of 2.2… >>
Nation Cancer Survivers Day celebrated with relish and barbecue
Ventura County Star, 06/08/2009
The sunny skies, aromatic smells of barbecue and lively music provided a joyful backdrop for cancer survivors and their families at the Cancer Survivors Day celebration… >>
Hospitals overhauled - Three area facilities plot expansion plans
Pacific Coast Business Times, 05/03/2009
For nearly 70 years, the Lompoc Valley Medical Center has provided medical services for residents of northern Santa Barbara County… >>
Community Memorial Hospital Lauds Volunteers
Ventura County Star, 04/24/2009
Community Memorial Hospital and nearly all of its Auxiliary members honored close to 40 men and women who have donated thousands of hours of service to hospital patients and their families… >>
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Hunk with a heart Keith Anderson to flex philanthropic muscles at gala
Ventura County Star, 04/17/2009
Country singer Keith Anderson has burly biceps, looks like Brad Paisley and once played baseball well enough to interest a major league team… >>
Ask the director: To meet seismic standards, CMH needs new building
Ventura County Star, 04/16/2009
Saving lives. Saving jobs. What could be more important? The former is always job one, and, given today’s economy, the latter is at the top of everyone’s to do list… >>
Cancer survivor art project goes on view soon
Ventura County Star, 4/12/2009
One year ago, the Breast Center at Community Memorial Hospital joined with the Buenaventura Art Association to kick off A Celebration of Life… >>
Pops named CMHS board chairman
Ojai Valley News, 04/10/2009
Martin Pops, M.D., has been named the new chairman of the board for Community Memorial Health System. Dr. Pops assumed his new position upon election at the annual board of trustees meeting in January… >>
Cowboys out, brides in at Hospital Foundation Guild’s annual benefit
Ojai Valley News, 04/08/2009
Put away your six guns, pardner, and get out your wedding trousseau. That’s the advice of Charlene Hartenstein and Kari Rodems, co-chairs of the 2009 springtime benefit for Ojai Valley Community Hospital… >>
da Vinci Robotic Surgery at CMH Slices Recovery Time & Trauma
Your Health Connection, 4/2009
How would you feel if, faced with major surgery, your doctor gave you the option of returning home the day after surgery rather than three to five days, with significantly less pain, discomfort and loss of blood, reduced trauma to your body, smaller sutures and scarring… >>
Gold Dust Gala benefits women with breast and cervical cancer
Ventura County Star, 03/17/2009
In 2008, an estimated 182,460 new cases of breast cancer were reported in the United States. Another 13,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer… >>
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Slaght, Small named new hospital chiefs
Ojai Valley News, 03/11/2009
Community Memorial Health System has announced that Dr. Samuel D. Small has been elected chief of staff at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura for 2009… >>
Two local hospitals win national honors
Ventura County Star, 10/08/2008
Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura and Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks have been named 2008-09 Consumer Choice Award winners by the National Research Corp… >>
CMH construction plan draws concern from city officials
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 09/11/2008
Ventura city leaders praised the footprint for the construction of a new Community Memorial Hospital but expressed concern about how the six-story, about 80-foot-tall structure will look… >>
Plan for new hospital facility shared
Ventura County Star, Friday, 07/18/2008
Community Memorial Hospital's $300 million plan to build a replacement facility over the next five years holds the key to a revitalized midtown Ventura, City Manager Rick Cole told business leaders Thursday… >>
Ojai Hospital Given Clean Checkup
Ojai Valley News, Wednesday, 06/28/2008
Three years into the merger between Ojai Valley Community Hospital and the Community Memorial Health System, administrators, support groups, physicians and staff gathered Thursday… >>
Russert's death has people talking about heart health
by Irving Kent Loh, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 06/22/2008
The unexpected death of an ostensibly healthy and young individual is always a tragedy for friends and families… >>
Annual Go Red for Women encourages heart health
Ventura County Star, Friday, 06/13/2008
Six years ago, at the age of 45, Simi Valley personal trainer and fitness instructor Diane Gonneau suffered what she describes as "a massive stroke" that left her paralyzed and unable to speak… >>
People who live with cancer celebrate survival
Ventura County Star, Monday, 06/02/2008
Being told that they had cancer, survivors say, propelled them into a dark, lonely place that left them looking for people to buoy them up… >>
Breast cancer group offers support, guidance
Ventura County Star, Tuesday, 05/27/2008
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, Lynda Kessler has been able to accept her condition in a way that she may not have been able to before… >>
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Ventura expo gives a chance to check out the available options
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 05/22/2008
Tammy Washington took a spin at the Circle of Life, filling out a self-assessment of her strengths and weaknesses… >>
New hospital could improve streets, traffic
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 04/24/2008
A roundabout could eventually replace the maze of traffic lights at Ventura's busy Five Points intersection… >>
$200 million hospital plan for Ventura introduced
Ventura County Star, Friday, 04/18/2008
Community Memorial Hospital officials are unveiling plans for a nearly $200 million construction project that city and hospital leaders say will be one of the biggest and most expensive in Ventura history… >>
Hospital auxiliary lauds volunteers for thousands of hours of service
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 04/17/2008
Community Memorial Hospital and 158 of its auxiliary members honored nearly 60 men and women who have donated thousands of hours of service to patients and their families… >>
Hospital opens new health clinic for families
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 04/03/2008
Community Memorial Health System has relocated and expanded its Ventura Center for Family Health in an effort to meet community demand for health providers… >>
Peripheral artery disease treated - A minimally invasive way to get the plaque out
Ventura County Star, Friday, 03/07/2008
Jim Wingate did something a month ago that a few years ago seemed impossible. He packed up and moved from Ventura to Eureka… >>
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Two county couples married for more than 50 years have cardiac surgery within past year
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 02/10/2008
Four hearts belonging to two couples are stronger this Valentine's Day following his 'n' hers heart surgery… >>
Symposium offers heart-healthy ideas
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 02/10/2008
In matters of the heart, having the right medical information at the right time can be life-saving. That was the central theme of a heart disease symposium in Camarillo on Saturday… >>
Expert panel to give heart-smart advice in Camarillo
Camarillo Acorn, Friday, 02/08/2008
Ishu Rao knows what makes people tick. Literally. The 37-year-old cardiologist specializes in electrophysiology- the study of the heart's complex electrical circuitry… >>
Taking No 1 killer of women seriously
by Alon Steinberg, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 02/06/2008
Do you know what the greatest health problem facing women today is? Most women answer cancer, specifically breast cancer… >>
Steinberg: Taking No. 1 killer of women seriously
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 02/06/2008
Do you know what the greatest health problem facing women today is? Most women answer cancer, specifically breast cancer… >>
Ojai Valley hospital reinvigorated merger with CMH aids facility, region
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 01/30/2008
Three years ago, Ojai Valley Community Hospital was struggling financially, threatening the work Dr. Martin Pops and other community leaders had done to save the facility from closure… >>
Study finds wide disparity in hospital pricing in California
Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, 01/16/2008
Fifteen of the state's 20 least expensive hospitals are in Southern California -- as well as some of the costliest, a study released Tuesday says… >>
Thank guardian angels
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 11/22/2007
Thanksgiving is different at our house this year. My wife is a nurse at Community Memorial Hospital, and it is her turn to work today and Friday, 12-hour shifts… >>
State panel to weigh new seismic regulations
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 11/14/2007
The California Building Standards Commission will consider adopting new regulations that could effectively delay costly seismic updating for hundreds of… >>
ER crisis handled with competency
Ojai Valley News, Wednesday, 11/14/2007
I helped my mother move to Ojai last summer. She is in her early 90s. Twice since her move, I have found it necessary to take… >>
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Heart 'electrician' joins area hospital
Ventura County Star, Saturday, 11/10/2007
Pauline Rojelio had trouble climbing stairs, walking across the Oxnard school campus where she works as a teacher's assistant, even bending over to tie her shoes… >>
Local healthcare excels
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 11/07/2007
At one point or another we've all read the headlines and seen the news about the demise of our country's healthcare system, including insurance complications… >>
Healthcare worker shortage a danger
Ventura County Star, Tuesday, 11/06/2007
California is facing an unprecedented shortage of college-educated healthcare workers that poses a serious threat to the industry and to Californians' health… >>
Plain talk offered on breast cancer
Ventura event covers reconstruction, therapies
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 10/21/2007
In the middle of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, about 200 people took the opportunity to go beyond pink ribbon campaigns and spent the day learning more about the disease… >>
Investigations: County follows state regulations, autopsy protocol in such cases
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 10/07/2007
Roughly three-quarters of the sudden, unexplained infant deaths in Ventura County from 2000 to 2004 were attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome… >>
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New program in county aids heart attack victims
Ventura County Star, Wednesday, 09/26/2007
If you're having a heart attack, time equals heart muscle. The longer you go without treatment, the more likely your heart will suffer significant and irreversible damage… >>
Babies relay needs without words
Ventura County Star, Friday, 09/21/2007
When 15-month-old Jake wants his favorite toy, a tiger doll, he scrunches his fingers into claw shapes and presses them to his face… >>
Patients find comfort in 'medical homes'
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 09/20/2007
Marisela Magallanes knew she'd found her medical home when her new physician called her to discuss a complaint she'd made regarding wait times… >>
Assisted-suicide discussion held at Ventura hospital
Ventura County Star, Friday, 07/27/2007
End-of-life care and the agonizing choices often faced by dying patients and their loved ones is never an easy subject to discuss, privately or publicly… >>
Physician-assisted suicide discussion
by James Hornstein, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 07/22/2007
An Oregon doctor, having just participated in the assisted death of one of his patients, wrote: "Although we have accepted our roles as comforters in end-of-life care… >>
Physician-assisted suicide discussion
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 07/22/2007
An Oregon doctor, having just participated in the assisted death of one of his patients, wrote: "Although we have accepted our roles as comforters… >>
Two births are 'seven' wonders of the county
Ventura County Star, Tuesday, 07/10/2007
For Casey and Elena Pullman, July 7 was a momentous day.When the couple's first baby came into the world at Simi Valley Hospital… >>
Two college nursing students win scholarships
Ventura County Star, Thursday, 06/28/2007
Julia Durr, who is in her final year in Ventura College's associate degree nursing program, and Evie Arauz, who recently completed her first semester in the program… >>
New Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation
by Lamar Bushnell, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Tuesday, 09/05/2006
Atrial fibrillation is a serious affliction affecting 2.3 million individuals in the United States with an annual incidence of 160,000… >>
5 Myths for Ms. and Mrs.: Correcting Misunderstandings about Heart Disease in Women
by Siegfried Storz, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 02/26/2006
Although her heart looks like a man’s heart and works just as hard, a woman should know that there are real gender differences which may affect her in unexpected ways… >>
Is the world ready for audacious face transplants?
by Samuel Bern, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Monday, 12/05/2005
In the 1997 film, "Face Off," John Travolta takes the war on terror to a new level of personal sacrifice… >>
Low-risk alternative is available for weight loss
by Helmuth T. Billy, M.D.
Ventura County Star, Sunday, 10/23/2005
Unlike the better-known and permanent gastricbypass surgery, LAP-BAND helps patients lose weight by placing an adjustable band around the upper part of the stomach to reduce its capacity… >>
R2D2 in the O.R.
Ventura County Star, Monday, 06/13/2005
A few weeks removed from having 14 inches of her colon taken out, Marci Grace says she feels "like a miracle" and "a very successful pioneer."… >>
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