Jack Lavers has announced his candidacy for the 26th District of the California State Assembly. Lavers was introduced and endorsed by Randy Baxley, the Owner and Operator of the Visalia Livestock Market. “Jack is honest, willing to go the extra mile, and will always do what he says he will do,” Baxley said. Alongside family […]
The Tulare Local Healthcare District Board of Directors announces that recruitment for hospital employees is underway in preparation for the reopening of Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) in the near future. “We are excited that we are moving forward with the recruitment and interview process to staff TRMC, bringing us to our goal of creating […]
Visalia hoteliers are stepping up to the plate to promote tourism to the city. On October 16 they asked the Visalia City Council to approve their plan to form the Visalia Tourism Marketing District (VTMD). The council approved the plan and will hold a final public hearing on December 4. The Hoteliers hope to create […]
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) is back in the national media spotlight as special council Robert Mueller now turns his attention on the comings and goings of the local career politician. Flynn’s Turkish Breakfast As reported by the Valley Voice in May, on January 18, Nunes attended a breakfast meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu […]
Three marijuana production companies, Caliva, Genezen and Premium Extracts, were all smiles at the November 7 Hanford City Council meeting — and it wasn’t because they were smoking their products. The trio of companies were awarded the coveted and limited commercial cannabis permits to manufacture pot in the Hanford’s industrial zone. Staff with the City […]
Deputies of the Tulare County Sheriff Department beat a Strathmore man unconscious, denied him medical care, held him overnight, then forced him to walk home, according to a lawsuit filed against those deputies and the Department last month in federal court. The beating, the suit alleges, resulted from an argument with a police dispatcher. Wrong […]
Only two Tulare County cities had measures to vote upon on Nov. 7 – Farmersville and Woodlake. With 16% of registered voters in the combined cities making the decisions, both cities will see an increase in sales taxation come January, 2018; and both will be taxing potential cannabis businesses. Through passage of Measure P in […]
UPDATE: According to a statement from the Tulare County District Attorney’s office, investigators were on the scene at the hospital for “well over 33 hours straight”, collecting evidence since 9am Thursday. Healthcare Conglomerate Associates will leave the Tulare Regional Medical Center for the last time on November 22 at 5pm. Additionally, during argument, it was […]
A hospital emergency department may not seem the most likely place to perform a clinical trial. Loud, stressful and chaotic, the American emergency room offers a tried-and-true backdrop for television and motion picture productions but is not typically considered the domain of painstaking academic research. However, physicians will attest that important life-saving research can take […]
The Joint Commission has recognized Sierra View Medical Center as a 2017 Pioneers in Quality™ Data Contributor for its contributions to electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) data for quality improvement in health care. Until recently, most hospitals collected information to measure health care quality by manually abstracting data from patient records. Today, through eCQMs—which rely […]