College of the Sequoias (COS), Pharmacy Technician Program was approved and accredited in August 2021 by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). This prestigious accreditation for the Pharmacy Technician Program at COS was established over a three-year process and places the program as one of 22 programs in California to be accredited. The COS […]
This article was updated to include a comment from Kaweah Health. Kaweah Health CEO Gary Herbst defended his hospital stating that though a recent state investigation “had value,” the investigators were “incompetent” and “on a crusade.” Herbst made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview with the Valley Voice. Despite statements from Herbst and hospital officials […]
In the wake of the drug-overdose death of a contractor in Kaweah Health Medical Center’s emergency department in December 2020, the county’s largest hospital, was given just 90 days to correct dozens of policy and procedure deficiencies or lose federal funding. Kaweah Health’s leadership was given 10 days to respond. Cutting It Close? The […]
Judging from her answers during her council interview newly selected District 1 Council Member (central) Liz Wynn said she would provide some leeway in following the General Plan if an economically important project were at stake. During her August 12 interview District 4 Council Member Greg Collins (northeast) asked her, “There’s a project that would […]
Bring Organics to the 8/21 Clean Up Event in Visalia and Receive Compost for Free Visalians who bring organics to drop off at this month’s Dump On Us clean up event can now receive free compost in return. Beginning at the Saturday, August 21st, 2021 event, Visalia residents who dispose of green/organic waste materials are […]
A Press Release from Kaweah Health On Wednesday afternoon, with hospital capacity stabilizing at 95 percent, Kaweah Health called off its two-day internal emergency due to rapid hospitalizations, and opened its newly expanded Emergency Department. “Our hospital capacity issues have not been fixed. We’re still going to have volume issues, but we’ve worked really hard […]
A press release from Kaweah Health Due to a rapid increase in patient hospitalizations, both with and without a COVID-19 diagnosis, Kaweah Health called a Code Triage on Monday, August 16, 2021 at approximately 1:30 p.m. A Code Triage is a disaster or problem that may affect the hospital and/or the patients and puts us […]
A press release from VUSD Visalia Unified School District and the community are experiencing a large increase in the number of cases of COVID-19, and as indicated in Kaweah Health’s recent media release, our local hospital has reached capacity. Additionally, VUSD is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of staff being placed in quarantine, and there […]
A majority of the city council tonight selected Liz Wynn, director of the Kaweah Delta Hospital Foundation, to fill the District 1 (central) seat of the late Phil Cox. Although Wynn answered a series of questions posed to all six finalists during public interviews, several council members said one thing that swayed them was that […]
The Visalia City Council is expected to name a replacement for Vice Mayor Phil Cox’s District 1 (central) seat on August 12, said Mayor Steve Nelsen. Included in the list of candidates is former judge Howard Broadman who acted improperly in a 1996 real estate case, said the state Commission on Judicial Performance. Cox died […]