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On April 10, North County Fire Protection District responded to a basic traffic collision that occurred on Old Highway 395 at Dulin Road, resulting in a brief road closure. According to John Choi, the NCFPD Public Information Officer, there were multiple vehicles blocking traffic on the roadway, but there were no life threatening injuries reported. On April 11, a three vehicle pile up occured on East Mission Road at Stage Coach Lane resulting in a traffic delay. The NCFPD responded to the call at 4:31 p.m., and when they...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital announced Wednesday, April 7, that it received certification from DNV as a comprehensive stroke center, reflecting the highest level of expertise for the treatment of serious stroke events. “With stroke care, you must have the best clinicians and resources, but also the ability to act quickly because of the time-critical nature of these events,” Darlene Wetton, CEO of Temecula Valley Hospital, said. “Receiving this Comprehensive Stroke Certification validates all the efforts we have pu...
POMONA - A man and a woman were taken into custody today in Pomona after leading authorities on an hours-long pursuit that began in Murrieta and spanned four counties. Riverside County sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol units began pursuing a dark-colored pickup truck driven by a supposedly armed man suspected of murder, according to multiple broadcast reports. The man led authorities south to Escondido in San Diego County before returning to Riverside County....
Coronavirus hospitalization levels in Riverside and San Diego counties have mostly stabilized and even slightly increased at one hospital, per data released March 22 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. According to the data, which is a compilation of statistics from hospitals across the nation for the week preceding March 12, individuals with COVID-19 made up 4% of patients at Temecula Valley hospital, 6% of those at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers...
RIVERSIDE COUNTY – Universal Health Services Southern California Medical Education announced it has received $1.125 million in CalMedForce awards to increase access to health care and address physician shortages. Of the total grant, $225K will support Emergency Medicine Residency Program training, $225,000 will support Internal Medicine Program training and $675,000 will support Family Medicine Program training. The local residency program will help increase access to care i...
Coronavirus hospitalizations in southwestern Riverside and northern San Diego counties have now dropped to such a level that COVID-19-positive patients make up less than 10% of hospitalizations at most local medical facilities. The data, based on statistics from hospitals across the nation for the seven days preceding March 5, show individuals with COVID-19 now make up 4% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital, 6% of those at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers in...
DigiFest, the "digital arts experience" that bills itself as the Temecula Valley's biggest digital media festival and competition, is preparing to head into its fifth year – and its second one in a virtual setting as the pandemic continues. The event, hosted by JDS Creative Academy, features competitions for anyone who works in digital media in several categories. "We reach out to students, amateurs, adults, professionals who work in digital media – that covers everything fro...
Coronavirus hospitalizations in northern San Diego and southwestern Riversidencounties now stand at their lowest points in months, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Per a data release from March 8, which is based on statistics from hospitals across the nation for the seven days preceding Feb. 26, individuals with COVID-19 now make up just 10% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital and 11% of those at Southwest Healthcare System (which includes Inland Valley and Rancho...
The slide continues – for the fifth straight week, federal data shows across-the-board declines in the numbers of coronavirus patients at Temecula Valley and North County hospitals. Data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Feb. 28, showed the percentage of patients who were coronavirus positive dropped to 16% at Temecula Valley Hospital from 21% in data released the week before, Feb. 21; 13% at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley and Rancho Springs medical centers in Wildomar a...
As has been the story for weeks now, coronavirus hospitalizations are continuing an extreme decline from the heights of the brutal third wave of the pandemic as vaccines continue to roll out to more and more members of the public. Those with COVID-19 are making up a much smaller share of patients in local hospitals these days – data released on Feb. 21 by the HHS department showed 21% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital were coronavirus-positive in the week before the report, as well as 17% at Southwest Healthcare S...
Coronavirus hospitalizations are continuing their steep decline locally, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Feb. 14. COVID-19-positive individuals are making up an increasingly small share of patients at local hospitals as the weeks go by – those with coronavirus now make up about a quarter of all hospitalizations at Southwest Riverside County health facilities, down from about a third in the data reported Feb. 7 and a significant drop from as many as two-thirds of all patients a...
Local hospitals are continuing to show declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU patients, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with the numbers as of Feb. 7 dropping substantially from those released the prior week. While coronavirus-positive patients still make up an abnormally large share of patients at Southwest Riverside County and North San Diego County hospitals – after all, in a normal year in the past, the number of patients with COVID-19 would be zero – the cor...
Local hospitals are finally starting to show clear, consistent declines in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, though coronavirus patients still make up a significant percentage of those hospitalized in Riverside and San Diego counties. While some local hospitals showed declines in coronavirus hospitalizations in data from two weeks ago, others showed slight increases. The data released by federal health officials Feb. 1 is the first time coronavirus hospi...
It’s little surprise: while COVID-19 hospitalizations are down at some local hospitals, they rose at others in the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and coronavirus patients continue to make up an extraordinary percentage of those hospitalized in Riverside and San Diego counties. Coronavirus patients are in fact a majority of patients at all Southwest Riverside County hospitals except one, as well as at Palomar Medical Center Escondido, the closest San Diego County hospital to F...
Area residents and firefighters turned out Sunday morning, Jan. 24, to honor 54-year-old Temecula resident and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Capt. Chris Mertz, who died Jan. 20, from complications related to COVID-19. Mertz's family and Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District personnel were present at Temecula Valley Hospital as his body was transferred to a waiting hearse, which they followed in a procession escorted by the California Highway Patrol to Miller-Jones Mortuary in...
As the current wave of the coronavirus pandemic drags on, hospitals are still seeing markedly high levels of COVID-19-infected patients. At all southwest Riverside County hospitals and Fallbrook’s nearest San Diego County hospital, a majority of hospitalized patients were coronavirus-positive, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Sunday, Jan. 17; per that data, 55% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital; 59% of patients at Southwest Healthcare System, which includes Inland Valley a...
Local hospitals are continuing to see high levels of coronavirus patients, with two out of three Southwest Riverside County medical centers reporting increases in patients testing positive for COVID-19 in the latest data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, though the nearest San Diego County hospital to Fallbrook showed a slight drop in COVID-19-positive patients. According to HHS data released Jan. 10, 56% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital, 57% of patients at Southwest Healthcare System...
Local hospitals in North County and Southwest Riverside County hospitals are nearly full, and intensive care units are slammed with patients as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, according to the latest data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Per data released on Jan. 3, 51% of patients at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, the closest San Diego County hospital to Fallbrook, were positive for COVID-19. In addition, 45% of patients at Temecula Valley Hospital, 53% of patients at...
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There's really no other way to put it: 2020 has been a crazy year. From elections, to the wildfires that are an ever-present danger here in Southern California, to the raging pandemic that has upended all of our lives, there has simply been a lot of news to cover. There is not nearly enough room in this newspaper to do all of it justice, and indeed, it has often felt like there was not enough time to cover it all. All of that said, I have put together some thoughts on six of w...
As San Diego County and the rest of Southern California continues to trend upward in coronavirus cases, new data released by the federal Department of Health and Human Services last week painted a clearer picture of just how full hospitals are locally and across the country. The HHS released detailed data Tuesday, Dec. 8, on hospitals’ number of occupied beds, ICU capacity, number of confirmed and suspected coronavirus patients and more. In North San Diego County and Southwest Riverside County, the data show hospitals are c...
FALLBROOK – The 15th annual Foundation for Senior Care Fall Benefit went virtual this year. The signature event, titled "Reach Out," was attended via Zoom and followed by a weeklong silent auction. Reach Out attracted several hundred participants and raised over $125,000 to support program services, Foundation for Senior Care officials announced. Each year the Foundation for Senior Care holds its annual gala to fundraise for its essential services that benefit local seniors a...
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car just after midnight Sunday, Nov. 1, in Fallbrook. The deadly crash happened at about 12:15 a.m. on South Mission Road near Peppertree Lane. According to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe, a 53-year-old Fallbrook man was crossing South Mission from the east side of the roadway when he ran into the path of a northbound Toyota Camry driven by a 58-year-old man, also from Fallbrook. The Camry struck the pedestrian, who was then taken to Temecula Valley Hospital in...
FALLBROOK - A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car just after midnight Sunday, Nov. 1, in Fallbrook. The deadly crash happened at about 12:15 a.m. on South Mission Road near Peppertree Lane. According to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe, a 53-year-old Fallbrook man was crossing South Mission from the east side of the roadway when he ran into the path of a northbound Toyota Camry driven by a 58-year-old man, also from Fallbrook. The Camry struck the pedestrian, who was then taken to Temecula Valley...
TEMECULA – Temecula Valley Hospital has acquired the Olympus EBUS Solution to perform endobronchial ultrasound transbronchial needle aspiration. The latest American College of Chest Physicians Lung Cancer Guidelines recognizes EBUS-TBNA as the best first test for lung cancer diagnosis. Up until now, the gold standard for lung cancer staging was a surgical procedure. Now EBUS-TBNA offers a minimally invasive solution that delivers equally reliable sample collection in the o...
