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Defibrillator installed at Creekside Sports Park
On March 8, a small group gathered at Creekside Turf Sports Park to dedicate the Automated External Defibrillator cabinet in honor of Kyle J. Taylor, who died in 2018 from an undiagnosed heart condition.
In the wake of the tragedy, his family established the Kyle J....
HCA Healthcare breaks ground on $1.3 billion expansion at Good Samaritan Hospital
Today was the big day. HCA Healthcare Inc. officially broke-ground on its $1.3-billion, 715,144-square-foot expansion at Good Samaritan Hospital, located on the border of San Jose and Los Gatos.
In an interview with the Los Gatan, Good Sam’s CEO, Patrick Rohan, described it as a...
First Omicron case reported in Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County has received its first report of a case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, county officials said.
The case was reported Dec. 9 involving someone who was fully vaccinated but had not received a booster. The person had recently returned from traveling...
El Camino Health 1st to adopt new piece of ultrasound tech as it seeks to boost sepsis care
El Camino Health has become the first organization in the world to adopt a new technology created by Canadian company Flosonics Medical to boost care for patients suffering from sepsis and similar conditions.
The new addition to their tool kit is the FloPatch, a piece...
How the Palms swayed its way through the pandemic
While Tuesday is frequently a day off for restaurant industry workers, April 5 was actually quite a hectic one for Tony Loeffler, general manager of the Palms restaurant.
The day’s schedule included deep cleaning in the kitchen, and manifesting an Easter buffet brunch—among myriad other...
El Camino Health opens Los Gatos mental health clinic
Blended with the soft guitar plucks wafting through the large courtyard of the low-rise Los Gatos building near the border with Campbell, there was plenty of optimism Saturday morning, as El Camino Health unveiled its new intensive outpatient clinic.
As Mayor Mary Badame joined health...
New center aims to bolster mental health services
A former detox facility adjacent to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center campus has been transformed into a residential treatment center for people with serious mental illnesses.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Behavioral Health Services Department and operating partner Momentum for Health celebrated...
El Camino funds programs to address growing trend of diabetes
According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there could be as many as 220,000 people under age 20 with Type 2 diabetes by 2060, an increase of nearly 700%. To address this trend within local communities, the El...
Vietnam vet addresses the ‘elephant in the room’
When Clyde Horn got back from Vietnam, after fighting with the infantry during the Tet Offensive, he was a changed man.
But he couldn’t quite put his finger on what exactly was wrong.
“I didn’t know how to define it,” he told the Kiwanis Club of...
Congressional Medicaid cuts imperil Santa Clara County healthcare budget
County Executive James Williams confirmed that the Valley Healthcare system is projecting a larger deficit for 2026-27 as cuts take hold.
