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8 • December 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. An Upbeat Update: THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALL, COMMUNITY HOSPITALS cess.


We know that without our commu- nity hospital - Sonoma West Medical Cen- ter - not only would lives be lost due to distance, but the con- venient, high quality care of our sur- gery patients, our chroni- cally ill and elderly would be compro- mised.


Sebastopol, CA. ~ Every day we hear words of gratitude from our patients. It means ev- erything as we work alongside our clinical teams and our local


caregiving agencies in a col- laboration we like to call our HealthCare Ecosystem – each group is as important as the next in the continuum of care pro-


Committee for Senior Services meet in the SWMC Conference room. Free classes and discus- sion groups on issues of interest


portant local groups such as 707 Villages and the Sub-


Im- are held here regularly.


After being open for almost 14 months, we have treated over 14,800 people.


need for our hospital has been proven. Here are a couple of re- cent patient stories:


That there is a


One warm evening, a few weeks ago, a 49-year old man walked into our Emergency De- partment with the help of his wife. He was pale and weak. After a glance, the Emergency physician on duty ordered an EKG and rapidly determined this man was in the middle of a myocardial infarction – a mas- sive heart attack.


lost consciousness on the exam table and was in the process of dying.


later this man and his wife were on their way to St. Joe’s. The following day the patient was


Minutes The patient


The clinical team went into Code Blue procedures to stabilize the patient while others arranged his transfer to the near- est Heart Center at Memorial/St. Joe’s in Santa Rosa.


By Jane Rogan


able to express his enormous gratitude to us for saving his life.


A woman approached me at the recent Health Care Confer- ence in Santa Rosa.


healthcare professional, very knowledgeable, earnest and well spoken.


is personally affi liated with a larger, local hospital, yet is a strong supporter of SWMC – knowing the larger hospitals cannot take care of everyone in West County. She wanted to thank Sonoma


Furthermore, she She is a


West Medical Center from the bottom of her heart for the life- saving medical treatment her very dear friend from Forest- ville received at our hospital last year. She told me he suffered from a number of ailments, and through our care was able to be home for the holidays.


These stories, and many just like them, are the reasons we are here. We wish everyone a very happy, healthy holiday season.


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8 • December 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda


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