Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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I want to take an opportunity to address some of the questions and concerns we've heard in the community about how we are preparing for a potential surge of patients locally. But first, I want to thank our community for the outpouring of love, support and kindness we've seen these past few weeks. We've received many donations, nice notes of gratitude, encouraging drawings from children thanking our team and even pictures of sidewalk art that families are creating at home to spread hope, and not...
Over the last few weeks, our communities have been struggling through perhaps the worst public health crisis of this generation. Schools and businesses have been shuttered. People are being asked to stay away from work, their elderly family members and friends. Those we love are getting sick. Families are frightened. Our way of life has drastically changed. But what we are encouraged by, despite the challenges we face, is the overwhelming sense of hope and goodwill we see from our friends and...
It's been one year since we opened the doors of the new Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Hospital, and, when I reflect on our time here, I'm humbled. I'm humbled by our community, which has so graciously welcomed us here and trusted us with its care. I'm humbled by our patients, whose determination and will I find inspiring. I'm humbled by our team, who work so tirelessly to care for all of you. I'm humbled to lead an organization that has such passion for the health of this community. At...
When I reflect on the health of our community, in many ways, I'm proud. This community has done something few others would – it committed to building and opening a state-of-the-art hospital in a rural town, helping to increase health access for all for generations to come. But I also know that there's much work to be done. Our community continues to outpace the county death rate for many conditions, including heart disease, chronic lower respiratory disease and liver disease. Our death rate f...
Think of any modern hospital in a big city. It's likely you'll picture radiologists checking X-rays, nurses caring for critical patients, scientists analyzing blood cultures or surgeons rushing to provide emergency operations. Those are all the same images you can expect to see when visiting Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. And now we have the license from the California Department of Public Health to prove it. State health officials surveyed our hospital this month and upgraded our Emergency...
When folks think of Adventist Health, it's likely they think only of the hospital. I can't blame them. Opening a state-of-the-art hospital in a rural community is a feat – especially during a time when rural hospitals across the nation are cutting services and, in many cases, shuttering altogether. But Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley is more than just a hospital – we're a whole health provider that includes a network of medical offices offering primary care services in California City, Mojave...
