The following is a press release issued by the Mendocino Coast Health Care District:
Adventist Health has informed the Mendocino Coast Health Care District (MCHCD) of its desire to restructure the terms of the agreement to provide care for the community. Since Adventist Health took over management of the hospital in 2020, local residents have had access to a growing number of services. It remains our goal to continue being an integral part of delivering quality healthcare on the Coast.
“The Mendocino Coast Healthcare District welcomes the opportunity to strengthen our partnership with Adventist Health. We recognize that this is an appropriate time in our five-year relationship to reevaluate the terms of our partnership,” said Paul Garza, Chair of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District.
Adventist Health and MCHCD look forward to collaborating on a path forward to expand access to care. Over the next 60 days, the two organizations will work through the details of a new agreement. “Adventist Health has a long history of serving rural communities and is grateful to have played a pivotal role in sustaining care on the Coast. Together, we have improved the quality, safety, and patient experience in our local hospital and clinics,” stated Eric Stevens, President of Adventist Health Northern California Network.
Both organizations remain committed to providing high-quality healthcare on the Coast and will strive to keep the community informed about the progress of the new agreement.
More information may be found at the District’s website: https://www.mendocinochcd.gov
The new deal will result in closing the hospital. The ER will remain, and the Fort Bragg will become “Treat and Transfer” facility that feeds patients into the Adventist Network. A lot of services will be eliminated. This was their vision all along and they did not try to hide it. Bottom line: AH did not make good on their promises to make the hospital sustainable. Now people will suffer.
Closing this hospital is going to find a lot of families and people in general in this town up a creek without a paddle as many of us don’t have the money or means to travel out of town for services rendered at this hospital. A lot of retirees also move here and I’m sure would like to do without the drive over the hill for such things as blood tests,x-rays,mammograms,or an overnight stay a short illness. I’m surely hoping that you can come to an agreement on this health care issue as the Coast needs a hospital. Thank You.
This is a not so simple way of saying that Reach and Calstar helicopter services will profit immensely because it sounds like that hospital is going to turn into a ghost town with a very basic emergency room. Everybody will get transferred and the ambulance companies and the helicopter companies will be the ones that rake in the money. Nothing but being transferred to another hospital. Hopefully there will still be a few competent doctors that can at least remove a fishhook from a kids finger.
This Hospital has been bleeding money for years, which caused Adventist to take it over…
Since Adventist only cares about fat salaries for CEO’s while the understaffing, abusive management, continuing employment of the crazy-ass-yurt-living off-grid locals is a significant challenge, while services have been cut systematically, and since nobody wants to live in Fort Bragg anyway, Adventist is overdue to close this dump anyway…
Adventist is one of the worst employers in California, they have algorithms and management training for squeezing the work/life out of employees, and the way they schedule has their people quitting left and right, a constant stream of travelers from Alabama and Pennsylvania filling the holes, and then a few idiots like myself thinking that Mendo is a “good place to retire”, when it is clearly, not.
Mendo is where retired Pot-Farmers went, when Humboldt went bust, a few years ago, and in 2015, real estate was unaffordable already…
The town has nothing, the weather is for iconoclastic hermits who love splitting firewood, and Adventist Health grasps a firm Monopolistic Grip on the whole of Mendo, and, Creepingly eerie, Lake County too…
Healthcare is a business, not a service. But anybody could have predicted the demise of this backwards, crooked little hospital…
That’s what I told locals in 2015, and after living in Humboldt, working in Mendo at Ft Bragg and Willits, at Howard… I will spend the whole day telling you a boring story about all the problems you might have, or I will get started on my equally boring book…
If you need Healthcare, move to Sacramento, or Yuba City, as all the refugees from SoCal have already done…