NorthBay Healthcare Wellspring A publication of NorthBay Healthcare Summer 2021 Issue 40 wellspring home | back to northbay.org In This Issue Expert Care, Closer to Home Excellence & Innovation, At Your Service NorthBay’s Many Services – All Close to Home! Ask Kelly! Many Plans Include WHA… Primary Care: Your Safe Home Base Don’t Get Lax: Vax, Vax, Vax! Urgent Care: Stronger Than Ever Pandemic Delivers a Baby Boom Collaboration Brings Expertise to Diagnosis Powerful Alliance: NorthBay, UC Davis Team Up in Time of Stroke Surgery on the Cutting Edge It’s a Big Wide World of Vascular Surgery Get Back on Track to Tackle Diabetes NorthBay, Mayo Clinic Solve Medical Mystery Back Out of Whack? It Could Be Your Sacroiliac Specialty Services Abound Operation: Vaccination – NorthBay Team Does Its Part to Battle Pandemic New Roles for Two Familiar Faces Welcome New Doctors NorthBay Brings Urgent Care to Grateful American Canyon Nine New DAISYs Bloom Download Issue as PDF Excellence & Innovation, At Your Service Let Our Doctors, Teams Make a Difference for You Excellence and innovation, close to home — that fits NorthBay Healthcare to a T. The question is, “Does NorthBay Healthcare fit you?” It does if you’re looking for expert physicians, starting with primary care specialists in Vacaville, Fairfield and Green Valley — close to home. And that’s where every health… READ MORE NorthBay’s Many Services – All Close to Home! NorthBay Healthcare’s two hospitals, three Center for Primary Care facilities, two Urgent Care centers and numerous specialty clinics are located in the heart of Solano County, delivering advanced medicine close to home. Service directory In Vacaville The NorthBay VacaValley Hospital Campus: 1. NorthBay VacaValley Hospital 1000 Nut Tree Road, Vacaville Services include: 24-hour emergency services,… READ MORE Ask Kelly! Becoming a new patient at any health care organization can be a daunting task. First you have to find the right doctor, figure out how to make an appointment, find where to go for that appointment, fill out forms on your current health and medical history, get a release of medical information, and get a… READ MORE Primary Care: Your Safe Home Base Every health care journey should start with the basics. At NorthBay Healthcare, that means picking out your primary care team of professionals who are there to serve you and your family with everything from annual evaluations and flu shots to blood pressure checks and immunizations. There are three Center for Primary Care locations — one in… READ MORE Don’t Get Lax: Vax, Vax, Vax! When it comes to preventive medicine, NorthBay Healthcare has three words for you: vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate! From COVID-19 vaccines and flu shots to childhood immunizations, health care experts agree it’s the best thing you can do to protect you and your loved ones from life-threatening diseases. Unfortunately, not only did the pandemic keep people away… READ MORE Urgent Care: Stronger Than Ever It’s been two years of pandemic pivoting, but that has only made NorthBay Urgent Care stronger and more flexible to serve the ever-changing needs of the communities it serves, according to Mary Jameson, director of Urgent Care, Primary Care in Vacaville and Women’s Health. The pandemic took hold just as NorthBay opened a second Urgent… READ MORE Pandemic Delivers a Baby Boom A lullaby tune plays over the public address system at NorthBay Medical Center every time a baby is born, and these days the tune is playing day and night. Although an anticipated COVID-19-induced national “baby boom” did not materialize around the United States, NorthBay Healthcare is bucking the trend. NorthBay’s Labor & Delivery and Mother/Baby… READ MORE Collaboration Brings Expertise to Diagnosis Kinue Post was having pain in her shoulder and a persistent cough back in April of 2018. The 80-year-old Fairfield woman was moving slower than normal, and sleeping most of each day. A visit to the emergency room ended with a diagnosis of pneumonia, but the medications didn’t seem to make a difference. “We have… READ MORE Powerful Alliance: NorthBay, UC Davis Team Up in Time of Stroke Above: Emergency medicine physician Andy Lee, M.D., shows off a wireless, bedside “robot” used in NorthBay Healthcare to connect with stroke specialists at UC Davis Medical Center. Although NorthBay Healthcare has been offering tele-stroke services at its hospitals since 2010, it entered into a new partnership with experts at UC Davis Medical Center earlier this… READ MORE Surgery on the Cutting Edge Robotic Technology Reduces Recovery Time, Pain and Blood Loss Dan Slagle is a spry, energetic 74-year-old with “a stubborn streak” that he says ultimately got in the way of his being able to live a normal life. “If others are willing to listen to my story,” he said, “hopefully they will avoid what I went… READ MORE It’s a Big Wide World of Vascular Surgery Physician Loves the Variety The love Melissa Loja, M.D., has for medicine is not in vain — it’s in vein, quite literally. And arteries. And all the amazing technology she has at her disposal to make life better for her patients. As part of the NorthBay Center for Heart and Vascular, she deals with any and all… READ MORE Get Back on Track to Tackle Diabetes Eat less. Do more. If only it were that easy. Those simple instructions may not be so simple for people trying to manage their diabetes, according to Jay Shubrook, D.O., diabetologist for NorthBay Healthcare. “It can be hard to know where to start.” And then came COVID-19. “The pandemic disrupted our normalcy, changed our habits,”… READ MORE NorthBay, Mayo Clinic Solve Medical Mystery We’ve all experienced stomach pains — after a spicy meal or a stressful day — but when Jasmine Kaur’s sharp stomach pains persisted for more than a couple of months, even without a spicy diet, the Vacaville resident made an appointment to see her primary care doctor. The physician ordered some lab work to determine the exact cause of… READ MORE Back Out of Whack? It Could Be Your Sacroiliac With lower back pain, it’s common for patients and their doctors to investigate the usual suspects: the muscles and discs of the spine. But what if the culprit is actually rooted somewhere else? In up to 30 percent of patients with chronic low back pain, the cause isn’t the spine at all. Instead, it’s a… READ MORE Specialty Services Abound NorthBay Healthcare offers a rich slate of specialty care physicians with offices in Fairfield, Vacaville, Green Valley and Napa. In addition to those highlighted throughout this magazine, you’ll also find: Infectious Disease NorthBay Healthcare’s infectious disease expert, Gregory Warner, D.O., has been in high demand since the outbreak of COVID-19 in February 2020, and has… READ MORE Popular Stories Recent Comments Mimi Pilacek So happy to hear you are recovering from this tragic accident. Be well. ... Uncle LeonR That's my niece telling it like it is in the real world of NURSING. Sooooooo pro... Uncle LeonR That's my niece telling it like it is in the real world of NURSING. Sooooooo pro... Uncle LeonR That's my niece telling it like it is in the real world of NURSING. Sooooooo pro... 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