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What To Do as a First Timer in Monterey County, CA.
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From CalMatters...
From Monterey County Weekly...
For over a year at monthly meetings in Sacramento, members of the state’s Office of Health Care Affordability Board have been hearing stories from Monterey County residents about the high cost of hospitals.
Jean Jacques, 96, heard a knock on her apartment door inside Pacific Grove Senior Living on Friday, Aug. 16. It was the manager, delivering a “nasty letter,” Jacques says, a three-day “pay or quit” eviction notice from the owner, Pacifica Senior Living.
From Monterey Herald...
From Salinas Valley Tribune...
Monterey County Environmental Health Bureau announced last week the relaunch of a mobile app that shares health inspection information for all restaurants, markets and food trucks.
A new wing and parking garage are in the works for nonprofit Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, after both internal projections and an independently performed assessment by a consultant within the last year showed the hospital will need to add 24 to 40 new beds by 2030 to meet a growing demand.
For weeks this summer, the number of cases of Covid-19 in California’s large metropolitan areas were quickly increasing, as well as across the country, driven by a group of highly contagious variants dubbed FLiRT.
A federal judge on Aug. 1 ordered Wellpath, the County of Monterey’s health care contractor in the jail, to submit a report by Aug. 16 outlining how it is complying with the terms of a 2015 settlement.
On Tuesday, July 30, Montage Health's CEO Stephen Packer told an audience at a Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce breakfast that Kaiser Permanente, one of the country's biggest health care systems, would be in Monterey County within a year or two, bringing competition to Montage, as well as Natividad and Salinas Valley Health.
The County of Monterey and its health care contractor in the jail, Wellpath, continue to be “substantially” out of compliance with the terms of a 2015 settlement, according to a neutral third-party monitor’s report.
From King City Rustler...
Mee Memorial Healthcare System, based in King City, has been recognized as a leading performer in the 2024-25 Hospital Index published by The Lown Institute, a renowned healthcare think tank.
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