Highlights from the Health Care Town Hall — Part Four

  • [photos by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

    [photos by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

On July 26, 2018 a Health Care Town Hall at the Frazier Park Library brought 14 panelists and a full house of about 80-90 residents together to focus on questions and updates about recent changes in health services to this rural region.

Last week, in Part Three, you met Chief Brian Marshall of Kern County Fire Department; Myron Smith of Hall Ambulance Service; Brian Harris, CEO of Clinica Sierra Vista; Dr. Brent Burket, M.D. of CSV in Lebec; Sharon Powell, Pine Mountain Health Center; Sarah Edwards, Ph.D., Psychotherapist; Anne Weber Burnaugh of the Family Resource Center; Militsa Brennan, of South West Health Care District and the Mountain Communities Health Fair; plus Pharmacist Ty Stout, of the El Tejon Pharmacy in Frazier Park.

Part Four: Introductions Continue, and Changes at Clinica Sierra Vista Begin To Be Discussed

Important additional introductions from the Kern County Fire Department and Hall Ambulance Service are followed by the CEO of Clinica Sierra Vista (CSV—with about 90 facilities in the Central Valley, north through Fresno) beginning to tell about the many changes he is bringing to…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Panelists introduced in this section include Chief Steve Shoemaker and Captain Steve Freeland of the Kern County Fire Dept., plus Hall Ambulance managers Darrell Stapley, Ryan Strange and Mark Corum. In this image, Pharmacist Ty Stout of El Tejon Pharmacy and the public listen closely. We are grateful to all the panelists for participating. B.J. Saidi, president of the Mountain Communities Chamber of Commerce, recorded the event. The staff of The Mountain Enterprise are producing the transcripts. Susan Templeton of the Frazier Park Library hosted.

Kern County Fire Dept Deputy Chief Stephen Shoemaker talks about response times, shown here with Captain Steve Freeland at the Health Care Town Hall at the Frazier Park Library.

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