Mountain View, CA, February 2, 2012--El Camino Hospital is extending an invitation to Silicon Valley to participate in more than a half dozen activities during American Heart Month (February) designed to educate consumers about the causes, identification and prevention of heart disease. All the events are free and open to the public.
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January 31, 2012--El Camino Hospital announced today that it is participating in the KAST (Kiva® System as a Vertebral Augmentation Treatment--A Safety and Effectiveness Trial) study. The Kiva VCF Treatment System, an implanted device used to stabilize the vertebral body, is being evaluated in the treatment of painful vertebral compression fractures caused by osteoporosis. Dr. Fabio Komlos at the Mountain View campus and Dr. Jeffrey Coe and Dr. Michael Cluck at the Los Gatos campus are the investigators in this study.
January 24, 2012--El Camino Hospital Board member Uwe Kladde is resigning from his position on the six-member appointed Hospital Board in order to focus more time and energy on his family. Mr. Kladde has been an active Board member since 2008, serving as vice-chairman since 2010. He will continue to serve as a member of the El Camino Hospital District Board.
January 19, 2012--El Camino Hospital is now offering an evening outpatient addiction services program to address the needs of professionals, students and others who cannot attend treatment during regular business hours. The innovative evidence-based treatment program is the only evening program in the area between Redwood City and San Jose.
January 9, 2012--The El Camino Hospital Board of Directors plans to expand the size of the Board from its current six members to nine members by the end of June, 2012. The Board has retained recruitment firm Russell Reynolds to conduct the search of interested individuals who are subject matter and strategic experts in the fields of finance, quality measures and health care policy.
Los Gatos mom Rebecca Geshuri had always planned to have her third baby at El Camino Hospital Los Gatos. After all, she had given birth to her first two children there, and she'd had a good experience with both deliveries. But what Rebecca didn't expect was to have her baby come six weeks early.
John,* a 70-year-old former smoker from Sunnyvale, Calif., has battled lung cancer for the past decade. His first cancer, a small-cell cancer on his left lung, was diagnosed and successfully treated with aggressive chemotherapy and large-field radiation therapy in 2000, but then nine years later, a new type of lung cancer surfaced on his right side. For that cancer, John was again treated, with surgery (a wedge resection to remove the tumor) and external radiation therapy. Unfortunately, in the fall of 2010, yet another new cancer appeared, this time on his left lung again.
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El Camino Hospital has been negotiating a successor labor contract with SEIU-UHW West ("SEIU"). On Tuesday, November 15, 2011, the El Camino Hospital Board of Directors declared impasse and voted to implement the Hospital's last, best and final (LBF) offer to SEIU/UHW-West ("SEIU"). The Hospital's proposals have been consistent with its commitment to ensuring quality care, competitive wages and benefits, fairness and equity across the organization and future sustainability.
In addition, on Wednesday, October 12, 2011, a Notice of Decertification Petition was posted at El Camino Hospital stating, "El Camino Hospital has received a Decertification Petition from a group of employees in the SEIU-UHW bargaining unit. The Decertification Petition states that “employees no longer desire to be represented by SEIU-UHW." As a result, a secret ballot election to determine the question of union representation in the established bargaining unit was held on Thursday, January 5, 2012.
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