Health Matters: SRMC Stings the Blues

It looks as though our community is facing another health-care challenge. The recent purchase of SRMC by Prime Healthcare changes the vendor landscape in our community. It is important that people understand how the change will affect them in the short term and the long run.

Our health care system is complicated, both as a delivery system a…

What’s going to happen to Shasta Regional?

“The finances of this are incredibly intricate and intertwined … There’s no way to analyze it from far away and figure out what’s going on.” - Dr. David Johnson, Shasta Regional Medical Center board president, as quoted in the Record Searchlight.

That sounded like a challenge. Could I gather enough infor…