Monterey County Health Articles

California may have more than a million fighting birds, according to the Center for a Humane Economy.

The ground is rapidly shifting underneath the foundation of Monterey County’s health care marketplace, bringing big changes in 2025. Montage Health announced on Dec. 2 that it will have a new president and CEO from Virginia beginning in spring. Two…

A new president and CEO of Montage Health is stepping up to take over for the retiring Dr. Steven Packer next spring. Dr. Michael P. McDermott, currently CEO of Mary Washington Healthcare in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has been named as Packer's…

It had been a long day in a conference room in Sacramento on Wednesday, Nov. 20, where the Office of Health Care Affordability Board was in the early stages of deciding how to group the state’s hospitals together for future…

Over the years, oncologist Dr. John Hausdorff and his colleagues at Pacific Cancer Care noticed that some patients needed hospice care but had no viable place to go in their final weeks of life. Maybe the family wasn’t equipped to…

After Michael "Max" Schell was elected to the Soledad Community Health Care District Board of Directors two years ago, he soon became the firebrand of the board. A stickler for rules and government transparency, he pressed the board and SCHCD…

SALINAS VALLEY — Preliminary results from the Nov. 5 Presidential General Election show several candidates in the lead for seats on South Monterey County school boards and the Soledad Community Health Care District. Although these early counts provide insight, additional …

GONZALES — Hundreds of families recently flocked to Central Park in Gonzales to experience Community Health Day presented by Salinas Valley Health.

It has been just over two years since the Pajaro Valley Health Care District acquired Watsonville Community Hospital and returned it to public ownership for the first time in decades. But that didn’t happen by accident and in many ways, …

SALINAS VALLEY — The Alliance on Aging (AOA) is set to launch a series of South County Solutions Summits aimed at addressing vital concerns for older adults and individuals with disabilities in Monterey County.

Flu season is here once again, which means everyone six months old and up is eligible for a flu shot.

Helen Diallo knows both the joy and the pain of the childbirth experience. The Monterey resident has experienced four pregnancies in Monterey County, one of which ended in a miscarriage. “I understand the fear, dread and anxiety that mothers can…

SOLEDAD — An overwhelming majority of Soledad Community Health Care District (SCHCD) workers decided last month to form their union with SEIU Local 2015, the nation’s largest long-term care workers union.

Each day doctors write prescriptions for medications to combat diseases and conditions like diabetes, heart ailments and depression. What if, along with a prescription for medication, came a prescription to head to the park for some fresh air? That was…

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. So many stories came pouring out, combined…

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…

MONTEREY COUNTY — 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…

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. While anecdotal evidence in Monterey County…

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.