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The Fremont-Rideout Cancer Center is Expanding to Offer Even More Leading Edge Treatment Options and Patient-Centered Care to the Region
This past August, the Fremont-Rideout Health Group officially broke ground on the $19.4 million expansion of its Cancer Center. When completed in August of this year, the Center will have nearly doubled in size to 42,000 square feet and have added 11 infusion bays, six more exam rooms, a second linear accelerator and a PET CT scanner. The purchase of the linear accelerator and the PET CT scanner alone will cost more than $6 million.
“It’s the most expensive medical equipment a hospital can purchase,” explained Susan Vague, Administrator of the Fremont-Rideout Cancer Center. “With the addition of the PET CT scanner, every aspect of cancer patient care can be handled right here, all under one roof.”
Dr. Scott Christensen, Medical Director of the Fremont-Rideout Cancer Center and the UC Davis Cancer Care Network, reiterated the importance of the major investment in the new scanner. “The expanded Cancer Center will have new technologies that have never existed in this community before. The new PET CT is not just an imaging device, but also has interventional capabilities for sophisticated biopsies and precise line placement for infusion therapies,” he said.
FRI., MAR 23, 4:30-9P Fremont-Rideout Conference Center, 989 Plumas Street, Yuba City
Fremont-Rideout Foundation has partnered with numerous healthcare professionals and corporate sponsors to present its fourth annual Diabetes Symposium at the Fremont-Rideout Conference Center offering 4-hour Category 1 CME to Healthcare Providers.
“Our goal is to provide a forum where professionals can share their knowledge and skills, so that we can help patients with diabetes achieve good health and learn to minimize the complications that may develop from this disease,” said Jasbir Kang, MD, Program Director.
Speakers at the symposium include:
JASBIR S. KANG, MD, PROGRAM DIRECTOR
YUBA CITY PRIMARY CARE & DIABETIC CLINIC, INC.
PRANAV A. AMIN, MD. BOARD CERTIFIED OPTHALMOLOGIST
The Eye of a Diabetic: How to prevent DM related Eye complications
C. KANNAN, MD, PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, LAS VEGAS
Updates in Diabetes: What are the optimal goals and controversies around the role of HbAIC and TZDs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: When is it safe to use Thiazolidinediones?: The role of GLP-1: When to use Glucagon-like peptide
WENCHIANG HAN, MD, BOARD CERTIFIED NEUROLOGIST
Management of Neuropathy and
Pain in Diabetes Mellitus: How to identify and treat Neuropathy and pain in DM
RUPINDER BRAR, MD, CARDIOLOGIST
Managing Cardiovascular Risks in a Diabetic Patient: Identifying and treating risk factors
ETIE MOGHISSI, MD, FACP, FACE, ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF CA, LOS ANGELES
Management of In-patient Hyperglycemia: 2012 Update: 1 – Establish or revise glycemic targets in line with the current evidence; 2 – Implement guidelines for the management of hyperglycemia; 3 – Utilize multi-disciplinary care team to support the safe and effective use of insulin; 4 – Develop a rationale for the dis-continuation of sliding scale insulin use; 5 – Individualize treatment of hyperglycemia based on patient-specific considerations
To register call 749-4622. Dinner provided by The Refuge.
MON. APR. 16, 2012, Fremont-Rideout Conference Center, 2-4P
Each year, the Fremont-Rideout Foundation celebrates the members of our team who volunteer their selfless service, compassion and caring to benefit our hospitals and our community.
Fremont-Rideout’s many volunteers come from an impressive array of backgrounds and generations, and work in many departments throughout our health group.
When asked why they give their time, volunteers often say they enjoy the camaraderie among other volunteers and employees and personal fulfillment they receive from the impact they have on our patients.
This years celebration will highlight the theme: Volunteers, Our Greatest Natural Resource.
We’ll treat our volunteers to food and refreshments, raffle, games and entertainment. If you’re a FRHG volunteer, and wish to attend, please call Dee Armstrong at 751-4247 or email her at darmstrong@frhg.org to reserve your place.
FRI. JUN 1 & SAT. JUN 2, 2012 Colusa Casino & Resort
The second annual Dance with Our Stars benefit will take place June 1 and June 2 at Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 California 45, Colusa. The event is a spinoff of the hit television show “Dancing With the Stars.”
“Last year, our Dance With Our Stars event was a big hit and raised more than $40,000 for the Foundation and the American Red Cross,” said Carol Ramirez, FRHG VP, Community Relations, Foundation and Marketing. “Everyone we talk to about it is so excited about this years event. We’re expecting another sell-out.”
“The event is extremely important in helping the Foundation and the ARC raise money,” she said. “Especially with the current economy and funding cutbacks.”
Ramirez said determining the winner of Dance with Our Stars is based on whoever raises the most money: People’s Choice Award — and dancing ability: Judges Choice Award. “Each dancer is paired up with a talented ‘professional’ who will make sure that everyone has a chance to win.”
Participants receive free dance lessons with a professional who will teach each celebrity the steps and guide them through the process. The dancers will perform 2 styles of dances. All six dancers will perform the Swing as their first dance and the second one is the dancer’s choice.
Meet the 2012 lineup for “Dance With Our Stars” a Benefit for the American Red Cross of N.E. California and the Fremont-Rideout Foundation.
Celebrities:
- Dr. Praveen Prasad – Neurosurgeon, FRHG Neurosurgery Center
- Russell Marsan, GreenTrax
- Dan Blair, PG & E
- Robin Walther, Retired
- Coleen Morehead, Clear Strategies
- Kevin Cotter, New Earth Market
- Rich Gabel, Frank M. Booth, Inc.
- Dr. Karanbir Grewal, Cardiologist
- Grace Espindola, Sutter Co. Schools
- Jennifer Traynham, Me & Mine Magazine
Pro Dancers:
- Amanda Rose, Jacque’s Dance Expressions
- Michele Blake, Sutter County/First Five
- Marcie Andrews
- Alex Cesena, Starbucks
- Rick Cusack, Beale Air Force Base
- Jacque Dake, Jacque’s Dance Expressions
- Luz Uribe,
- Angelika Klug,
- John Liburdi
- Demitri Elizzeard
- Rick Cusack, Beale Air Force Base
THANK YOU SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS!
TANGO SPONSOR
- Colusa Casino
MAMBO SPONSOR
- Recology Yuba-Sutter
- Carrere-Kalfsbeck-Farris
- Butte Sand & Gravel
- Hust Bros./ Sunrise Motors
CHA CHA SPONSOR
- Frank M. Booth, Inc.
- Surgical Affiliates Medical Group
SUPPORTERS
- TSPdj.com – Steve Allard, Entertainment Specialist
- Studio B – Jilleen Foy-Menghini
- Jacque’s Dance Expressions, Jacque Dake
- Judi Gordon
- Monkey & Snake Productions, Dean Tokuno
- Yuba-Sutter Training Zone
- Northside Fitness
- Broadway Salon
- Hello Glam Salon
The Jun 1 & 2 events are presented by FRHG and ARC and Colusa Casino Resort. Doors open at 6p.m. and dancing begins at 7pm. Tickets are $35 each and can be reserved by calling the FRHG at 530 751-4070 or email sthomas@frhg.org.
Coburn Haskell — known to most everyone as Cobe — passed away last month at age 87.
His long and fruitful life was celebrated this Saturday, March 10, at a memorial at the Fremont-Rideout Conference Center. We’re honored to be the venue for this gathering, since Cobe played a huge role in the development of Rideout Memorial Hospital and our healthcare organization.
Cobe was just 31 when he first joined Rideout’s Board of Directors, a newly-established cattle rancher not long out of UC Davis, which he attended after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He served on the Board for a quarter of a century, from 1955 to 1980, and chaired it for two years in the 1960s. He sold his ranches in 1970 and served as president of the Cleveland-based Haskell Fund from 1984 to 2003, but his interest in and support of healthcare — and us — did not stop when he stepped down from our Board.
Over decades, he remained a significant donor to the Fremont-Rideout Foundation and to Yuba College’s RN and LVN programs. Cobe and his wife, Gerry, were two of the founders of and major donors for the Janice Frank Scholarship for Nursing Leaders, initiated in 2010. They donated the lovely fountain, “Catching the Rain,” located in front of the Fremont-Rideout Conference Center at our headquarters in Yuba City, and two more fountains, which were on display at the groundbreaking March 8, and later sited on the Rideout campus, once construction is completed.
He was a Lifetime Member of the Friends of the Foundation, a member of the Foundation’s Bequest Society and the Platinum Circle, which recognizes donors of $100,000 or more. And, it was to our Foundation and our Hospice Program to which memorial gifts in his honor were suggested.
In 1992, Cobe was the recipient of the Foundation’s prestigious Rideout Award, which is given once every two years to an individual, in recognition of his or her personal, non-monetary, contributions to healthcare for the residents of our region, beyond our own walls. And Cobe certainly made a mark in many places. He had been a member of the Marysville Rotary since 1957, and received Rotary International’s Paul Harris Award, which honors those who exemplify the founder’s credo of “service above self .” He also served on the local boards of the Boy Scouts of America and the United Way.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes to his wonderful wife, Gerry, his sister and brothers, sons and stepsons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, all of whom can find some small solace in knowing that the world is indeed a better place because of Cobe Haskell.
