To honor Helen’s life and work, Paul Baszucki, provided a generous gift to Montage Health Foundation to establish the Helen Baszucki Center for Nursing Excellence.
The key elements of nursing for Debbie Sober remain the same today as they were 30 years ago, when her career began: Meet each patient’s needs to the best of your ability and make them as comfortable as possible, both physically and emotionally.
Do you know a nurse at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula who provides extraordinary, compassionate care every day? You can nominate her or him for The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses®.
For Steve Jackson, exercise is neither work nor play; it’s a lifestyle — and he was committed to returning to that way of life, even after a quintuple bypass and treatment for atrial fibrillation at age 75.
When Robert Stolich turned 82 on May 30, it might have felt like just another day, except he hadn’t been sure he’d still be around to celebrate.
An estimated 10 million Americans — 80 percent of them women — have osteoporosis, a weakening of bones that makes them more prone to fractures.
The new center at Ryan Ranch is about 10,000 square feet, with advanced technology and expertly trained staff for the best in breast care and bone-density scanning.
More than two decades after its introduction, Viagra® remains among the most common treatments for erectile dysfunction, but doctors have numerous other tools for treating an issue that affects many men at some point in their lives.
Developing and establishing MoGo — Montage on the Go — was an act of prescience. Montage Health’s urgent care clinics opened just in time to treat patients experiencing minor illness and injury outside the hospital setting during an unprecedented pandemic.
When patients come into the Emergency department at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, they don’t always know what’s wrong, and they don’t always have the language to describe how they feel. But they tend to be very clear that they don’t feel well.
With all the focus on COVID-19 vaccines, it’s a good time to make sure you are up-to-date on all vaccines for your age group.
A medical-career mentoring program for first-generation college, low-income students from underrepresented groups and efforts to reduce opioid abuse are among the latest projects by local doctors to receive grants from Montage Health Foundation’s Physician Scholars and Clinical Volunteers program.
If we were describing the past year-plus like a weather forecast, it would be cloudy … with a chance of more clouds … and then some more. Lots and lots of gray days as the world made its way through the COVID-19 pandemic. It had not only physical ramifications, but emotional consequences as well.
Through our Community Benefit program, we worked with more than 230 organizations, businesses, and public agencies to improve the health of our community.
On the following pages, you'll see the names of those who strengthened the health of our community by giving to Montage Health Foundation in 2020. Their generosity funded critical health needs, forward-thinking special projects, and meaningful medical programs that are improving lives and wellbeing.
Pulse magazine provides educational information on health topics
of interest to people in the Monterey Bay Area.
Pulse is published twice a year by Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula,
a nonprofit subsidiary of Montage Health.
Editor: Mary Barker
Art Director/Designer: Ingrid Davis
Web Design: Nicole Pahl
Writers: Lisa Crawford Watson and Dennis Taylor
Photographers: Albert Hoffman and Rick Pharaoh
On the Cover: Steve Jackson on a hike in Garland Park
pulse@chomp.org
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Kathleen Bang, Chair
Patrick Burke
Diana Busman
Randall Charles
Mimi Hahn
Gene Hill
Guru Khalsa, MD
Stan McKee, Vice Chair
John O’Brien
Steven Packer, MD
Carrie Panetta
Leslie Snorf
Bill Warner, Secretary
Sharon Wesley, MD
Phil Wilhelm
William Young
Steven X. Cabrales, MD, Vice President/Chief Medical Officer
Kevin Causey, Vice President/Chief Development Officer
Montage Health Foundation
Mark Carvalho, MD, Chief Executive Officer
Montage Medical Group
Paul Conocenti, Vice President/Chief Information Officer
Scott Kelly, Vice President/Chief Operating Officer
Aspire Health
Liz Lorenzi, Vice President/Chief Operating Officer
Aspire Health
Matthew Morgan, Vice President/Chief Financial Officer
Tim Nylen, Vice President/Chief of Compliance
Steven Packer, MD, President/Chief Executive Officer
Cynthia L. Peck, Vice President
Deborah Sober, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer
Laura Zehm, Senior Vice President/Chief Administrative Officer
