Ceremonies Honoring Nurses Spurred By Calif. Couple After Their Son’s Death
The Glen Ellen couple want to honor nurses for their skillful and compassionate care. In other local news, a clinic open in Kern County and the residents of Simi Valley protest a planned drug detoxification house.
The Press Democrat:
Glen Ellen Couple Honors Nurses In Wake Of Son's Death
This could be happening right this minute in a hospital somewhere in America or in one of 14 countries overseas. At the start or end of another busy, quite possibly exhausting shift, a clutch of nurses gathers for an announcement. One is surprised, maybe even blushes, when a colleague launches into a tale of the extraordinary caring and humanity that she or he exhibited there on the ward. ... Thanks largely to Glen Ellen residents Mark and Bonnie Barnes, the scene of gratitude and acknowledgment has played out at hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities more than 65,000 times since shortly after the Barnes’ son died in 1999. (Smith, 1/31)
The Bakersfield Californian:
It Took A Health Agency, Housing Authority To Open This 'Village' Clinic
The head of Clinica Sierra Vista is always looking for good space for health centers, nice places that its often-struggling patients would want to return to for care. The head of the Housing Authority of the County of Kern needed a tenant for the bottom floor of its affordable-townhouse/loft complex in Old Town Kern. (Bedell, 1/31)
The Ventura County Star:
Simi Valley Neighborhood Upset With Planned Drug Detox House
A planned drug detoxification house in a Simi Valley neighborhood is drawing stiff opposition from residents. About 100 of them packed City Council chambers last week to protest the project on Cisco Court on the city's east end. But under state law, as long as the house has no more than six residents, the city essentially has no authority to regulate it. (Harris, 1/30)