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Coast Hospital President gives update

A sign reading Adventist Health Mendocino Coast, with flowering shrubs below and blooming trees above.
Michelle Blackwell

Judy Leach, President of the Adventist Health Hospital in Fort Bragg, explains ongoing improvements to the patient record system and why it matters; discusses staffing concerns and the impact the pandemic has had on the transition from a public to private hospital.
Additional subjects in the full-length interview, available on the KZYX News podcst,https://share.transistor.fm/s/5c75375e include insurance access for the coastal area, and entry level job openings as well as Judy’s thoughts on Sherwood Oaks, Fort Bragg's only nursing home.

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Michelle Blackwell is a writer, journalist, and reader. She contributes to the KZYX News program and publishes in the Fort Bragg Advocate and the Mendocino Beacon regularly. She developed, hosts, and produces the KZYX radio show and podcast “Upwelling” Her fiction pieces have appeared in various Writers of the Mendocino Coast anthologies.