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Red Cross offers preparedness class
The Three Rivers Chapter American Red Cross is offering a personal emergency preparedness class Wednesday.
Free and open to the public, the class is from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at 2125 E. Onstott Road, Yuba... Full story
- Kang wins top doctor honor
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- Dr. Jasbir Kang has been recognized as the 2009 Outstanding Physician by the Fremont-Rideout Foundation.
Kang's award was announced during Thursday's annual Evening of Appreciation event hosted by the foundation. He is a longtime Yuba City-based... Full story
- Fremont-Rideout restricting visitation
- Hospitals impose rules due to H1N1
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- Fremont-Rideout Health Group facilities began strict visitation restrictions to stop the spread of swine flu Monday, but with some exceptions.
Children 14 and under are barred from visiting patients, and FRHG also is limiting visitors to two people... Full story
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Blood drives are set this week
BloodSource is sponsoring two blood drives this week in the Yuba-Sutter area.
Sites are:
• Brownsville — 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Ponderosa Community Center, 17103 Ponderosa Way.... Full story
- Health Calendar
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- SUNDAY, OCT. 18
• Class: Preventative health from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Three Rivers Chapter American Red Cross, 2125 E. Onstott Road. Cost: $50. Call 673-1460.
TUESDAY, OCT. 20
• Class: "Learn to Quit Smoking" from noon to 1:30 p.m. at... Full story
- Children blocked from seeing patients
- Fremont-Rideout takes action to protect against swine flu
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- Starting Monday, children 14 and under will not be allowed to visit patients at Fremont-Rideout Hospital Group facilities in an effort to limit patients' exposure to the swine flu.
Also, FRHG is limiting visitors to two people without flu symptoms... Full story
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Hospice offers grief support group
Sutter North Hospice is hosting a six-week bereavement support group in Yuba City.
The meetings are from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays starting this week to Nov. 18 at Sutter Hospice, 400 Plumas Blvd.,... Full story
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- SUNDAY, OCT. 11
• Yuba-Sutter Multi-national Family Health Fair 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Richland Housing-Hans Miller Building, 420 Miles Ave., Yuba City. Sponsored by Del Norte Clinic Inc., with Delta Dental, Mexican Consulate and 2010 United... Full story
- Rideout expansion EIR wins approval
- By Nancy Pasternack/Appeal-Democrat
- Marysville Planning and Historic Preservation commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to certify an environmental impact report and other key documents related to expansion plans for Rideout Memorial Hospital.
Public comments, however, prompted... Full story
- H1N1 vaccine's arrival locally unknown
- Shipments have started to go out elsewhere in state
- By Howard Yune/Appeal-Democrat
- As the first 350,000 doses of vaccine against swine flu start to reach California this week, Yuba-Sutter doctors are not among those at the front of the line.
Health department officers in Yuba and Sutter counties gave no timetable for the arrival... Full story
