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16 2010 TEHAMA COUNTYMEDICAL GUIDE St. Elizabeth Community Hospital Auxiliary A member of CHW This year the auxiliary celebrates our 50th year in existence, 1960-2010. Through the years the volunteers has been an integral part of the caring service given to the patients of St. Elizabeth. We currently serve in almost every area of the hospital. We have volunteers staffing shifts at the front desk, the gift shop, the Day Surgery, the Surgery Center, the imaging center and with Courtesy Visitors who call on the patients and family member to add comfort and encouragement. We also support our wonderful hospital staff in many practical ways. Besides contributing thousands of volunteer hours to patient, family and staff, we are deeply involved in fund raising for the hospital. Through the years we have contributed to a new ambulance, imaging equipment, the maternity department, ER and many other areas throughout the hospital. You have undoubtedly seen us and our oversized golf cart as we participate in community events such as the Round up parade, rodeo and monster trucks. We are involved in health fairs, we give a scholarship each year to a local medical student and contribute to the “Loaves and Fishes” project as well as giving to a needy family during the Christmas season. Some of our fund raising projects include an annual Spring Luncheon and Fashion show in May each year. This year’s luncheon will be in two weeks at the Red Bluff Community Center on May 15th. It is a gala affair open to the public with all proceeds going to fund this year’s project, Cardiac Care equipment. We have an annual “All you can eat” Crab Feed each January and throughout the year we have bake sales, book sales, uniform sales, jewelry sales, candy and candle sales. It takes many of hours of planning and labor but we feel we receive a great reward in knowing that we have contributed to the citizens of our community by supporting their local hospital, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb The staff at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital. Hospital thanks staff for honors By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer St. Elizabeth Community Hospital celebrated Nurses Week and Hospital Week with a barbecue. “During Nurses Week and Hospital Week, which overlap, the administration and management serves staff in recognition of their work and as a way of saying thanks,” said Kristin Behrens, the hospital’s marketing and community relations manager. “It’s always a traditional Red Bluff Barbecue — tri- tip, potatoes and bread. We serve it during the day, but make certain to come back for the night shift as well. That way no one gets left out.” The hospital has been holding the annual barbecue for 10 years, Behrens said. This year is special because St. Elizabeth is commemorat- ing its fourth consecutive year as a Thomson Reuter’s Top 100 Hospital award and receiving Avatar’s award for exceed- ing patient expectations and Modern Healthcare’s Best Place To Work award, Behrens said. “It’s an opportunity for us to really take time out to visit with our staff and to thank them for all they do, especially making this a hospital that has achieved Thomson’s 100 best hospitals in the nation,” said Sister Pat Manoli, senior director of Mission Integration. Manoli said it is a pleasure to work with a team that has such high professional standards. “It is certainly an attribute of preserving the mission and values of the sisters, set down over 103 years ago,” Manoli said. As a part of the barbecue, C. Jerome Crow, a representative of Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, presented the hospital with a cer- tificate of recognition on Nielsen’s behalf for being on Thomson Reuter list. “We’ve gotten it four years in a row, which is way cool,” said hospital President and CEO Jon Halfhide. “It’s really a huge recognition.” 530.529.8002 redbluff.mercy.org There were 3,300 hospitals in the United States looked at this year with only two in California making the list, which is based on quality, patient safety, patient satisfaction and finan- cial success, Halfhide said. “It’s the team that does it,” Halfhide said. “It’s the entire hospital working together as one unit.”

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