Mammoth Hospital

We're hosting a free Multiple Sclerosis Support Group with the first meeting one week from today 5:30 PM May 24th at Shady Rest picnic area. This group will meet to discuss the impacts of MS and it’s treatment, talk about self-care with MS, including nutrition and mental health and lifestyle. Get tips on managing symptoms and treatment options in an environment that provides empathy and support. For questions or more info, call 760.934.2551.... #MS #multiplesclerosis

Meet Casey Michel, Mammoth Hospital’s Registered Dietitian and instructor of a new online nutrition course! A Bishop native, Casey graduated from Michigan State University where she was a Graduate Assistant Sports Dietitian and Exercise Physiologist. She received her bachelor’s degree in Food Systems Management & Dietetics and master’s degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise Physiology from Michigan State University. Casey has been providing nutrition consulta...tion including diabetes management and education services since 2009. We’re proud to be offering a new educational course starting next week on nutrition taught by Casey, focusing on from hydration to mindful and social eating . This class is offered through @elevatemammoth Tuesdays from12:15 to 1pm via virtual live stream. For details and registration for this class, visit www.ElevateMammoth.com.

@ Elevate Mammoth we believe that many of the lifestyle choices that we make, such as the food we eat, the beverages we drink, and how much we exercise, play a key role in our wellbeing. . . We invite you to join our upcoming 6-Week Virtual Educational Course starting this coming Tuesday, May 18th taught by Mammoth Hospital RDN, Casey Michel. Learn More & Register @ www.elevatemammoth.com

It's a gorgeous day in the Eastern Sierra, hope you can get out there to enjoy it. Here's to the weekend!! #spring #blueskies #springblooms #springblossoms #getoutside #itstheweekend #elevateyourhealth

Dr. Laurence Fakinos, OB/GYN, has been coming to Mammoth for years to enjoy everything our area has to offer. In 2019, he made the dream to move here from San Clemente a reality and signed on as a full-time provider in our Women's Health Department. We're very grateful he did!

We’re excited to announce the move of Women’s Health department to our Specialty Clinic. This move is happening tomorrow, January 9th, resuming appointments in the new building by Monday, January 11th. The why behind the move is twofold. One, it creates synergy with the other specialties offered and will also allow us to utilize staff and our new building to improved levels of efficiency. The second part is, as a hospital, our greatest responsibility for serving our com...munity in health is our primary care team. To best amplify this service requires integration of Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Behavioral Health, and Population Health. The current Family Medicine space in square footage alone halts that potential. As we remodel the space with a larger footprint, we can be strategic in our investment to focus all four departments toward simultaneous improvement for our patient’s health and notable care. We realize all moves may come with a brief inconvenience. This is expected. The hope is as a team, we can be as organized and pointed as possible to diminish disruption to patient care over the weekend. Thank you in advance for your understanding during this move and we look forward to seeing our Women's Health patients in the new building next week!

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and his message of equality, love and service.

Here is the latest information on vaccinations from Mono County Public Health, where you can look at current vaccination status for our county, view tiers and phases, as well as pre-register to get the vaccine for your group.

We have received many questions regarding the timeline of the COVID vaccine in our county. Here is a summary of Mammoth Hospital’s role in Mono County Public Health’s (MCPH) plan: Phase 1A MCPH allocated to Mammoth Hospital enough vaccine to inoculate all employees and medical staff who elected to receive the vaccination. Today over 300 staff have received the vaccine. Phase 1B - MCPH has requested Mammoth Hospital's assistance to vaccinate some of those who are indicated... for administration in Phase 1B (people over the age of 75) using the limited amount of vaccines remaining from the hospital’s 1A allocation. MCPH will continue to distribute and administer vaccines through its phased roll-out plan. For specifics on the plan and other Frequently Asked Questions, visit the Mono County vaccination page link here: https://coronavirus.monocounty.ca.gov/pages/vaccinations. Another great resource for frequently asked questions is the recent Community Conversation held yesterday. Link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD083qhAQic&feature=youtu.be

Especially in times like these, to be in good health means being in good hands. Consider a gift to the Mammoth Hospital Foundation this holiday season to help us purchase a SimBaby, a simulator to better equip our newborn care providers to respond to critically ill pediatric patients. We have raised $36,000 and only need $4,000 to close the gap on this crucial resource! Learn more and give at: https://mammothhospital.org/giving-back/simbaby/

Meet Dr. Lucienne Bouvier, OB/GYN, our newest physician in Women's Health.

Loving this sunset tonight to kick off the weekend. Stay safe and make it a great one!

Did you know that today is National Pharmacist Day? We want to take this opportunity to thank all of the members of our Pharmacy staff who make it possible for our patients to receive the life-changing medical care that they need. This excellent team ensures all nurses and physicians have all the medication required for a positive outcome and that all of our Pyxis stations (automated dispensing cabinets) are loaded and running as they should. Our Pharmacy is responsible f...or IV admixture and compounding of sterile preparations and establishing policies and procedures for medication use within the facility. They also review patient medication orders for therapeutic appropriateness. Patient safety is their primary goal and we appreciate them for their dedication every day! Pictured here is Pharmacy Technician, Becky Wanamaker and Pharmacy Manager, Andrew Khodaverdian.

Lets start out 2021 with some good news. Wendy Galvan is our latest grateful patient to tell her story after Dr. Fakinos delivered her first baby at Mammoth Hospital.

Dr. Howell, incoming Chief of Staff and member of the coronavirus response team at Mammoth Hospital, discusses why he will be getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

Support Mammoth Hospital’s Babies Today! It's #GivingTuesday and we’re raising money to purchase a SimBaby, a simulator to better equip our newborn care providers to respond to critically ill pediatric patients. Donate today and your gift will make TWICE the impact, thanks to a generous donor who is matching the first $20,000 raised for the SimBaby! https://mammothhospital.org/giving-back/simbaby/

MONO COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH PROVIDES UPDATE ON VACCINE PRIORITIZATION AND DISTRIBUTION January 11, 2021 Safe and effective COVID-19 (Coronavirus) vaccines will be essential tools to end the global pandemic. Mono County will follow all federal and state guidance for prioritizing persons to be vaccinated, and in partnership with Mammoth Hospital, will be transparent, strategic, and equitable in its vaccine distribution. ...Continue reading

It's been the year that keeps on giving. First COVID, 8 weeks of poor air quality due to smoke, and now flu season. Here's Dr. Burrows, our Chief Medical Officer on why it's important to get your flu shot this year. Stay safe all!

Like the rest of the state of California, Mono County is currently seeing a significant surge in COVID-19 cases. Asymptomatic patients, symptomatic patients not needing hospitalizations, symptomatic patients requiring hospitalization, and symptomatic patients requiring transfer to a higher level of care, have all been seen and treated at Mammoth Hospital in the past thirty days. As a result of this rise in cases, the Governor has issued a regional stay-at-home order to go int...o effect once regional hospital ICU capacity drops below 15%. In this plan, Mono county has been assigned to the southern region, which also includes Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Inyo counties. It is not the status of Mammoth Hospital alone that determines when this order goes into effect. Rather, it is the status of all the hospitals within the region. At this point, the entire state is approaching a critical capacity shortage and there is no recourse to petition regional assignments. A colored tier system is currently being utilized to communicate Mammoth Hospital’s ability to care for patients: Green: There is no impact on the capability to care for any patient requiring care. Yellow: The ability to care for some patients may be compromised, due to COVID-19 cases in the hospital, staffing, bed capacity, and/or resources. Red: The hospital’s capacity is saturated and the ability to care for additional patients is compromised as a result. Mammoth Hospital is currently in Green status. The color-code status of the hospital can be seen by going to the Mono County COVID-19 Response page and clicking on the Case Stats button: https://coronavirus.monocounty.ca.gov. If, and more likely when, the region’s ICU capacity drops below 15%, the stay-at home order will go into effect with all the associated restrictions. The following link to the COVID.CA.GOV site shows updated ICU capacity by region: https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/

#GivingTuesday is just around the corner and Mammoth Hospital needs your help! On this global day of giving, we are raising money to support Mammoth Hospital’s tiniest patients. Learn more & donate: https://mammothhospital.org/giving-back/simbaby/

Here's to hoping!

Here are ways you can help our neighbors in the communities of Walker, Colville, and Topaz who have been displaced from their communities or have lost their homes to the Mountain View Fire last week. Our hearts go out to all the families and individuals who have been affected by this tragedy.

On behalf of Mammoth Hospital Mammoth Lakes Chamber of Commerce, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono County Health Department, we want to wish you a healthy and safe holiday season. While you are out and about, here are a few safety tips to keep you, your friends, neighbors, and your family safe. We know COVID isn't taking a break for the holidays, so it's important we all do our part. #StaySafetoStayOpen

This week is National Infection Prevention Week and we want to celebrate and recognize Staci Brock, our Infection Prevention Coordinator. Staci has been a nurse at Mammoth Hospital since February 2018. She took the position as Infection Prevention Coordinator last year after first working as a Labor and Delivery nurse. COVID-19 has shown the world what we’ve always known. Infection Prevention Nurses are essential to keeping us all safe. Infection Prevention Week was establi...shed in 1986 to highlight the efforts of those preventing all infections, but this year the tireless efforts of the position are more important than ever, fighting the global pandemic. Staci’s regular duties include timely and accurate reporting to CDPH and the CDC, monitoring and reporting the disease process of COVID-19, and continually researching the best ways to keep patients and staff as safe as possible. Staci has been a part of our Hospital Incident Management Team since it was formed in March, and her contributions have been immeasurable. Thanks Staci for your dedication and for all you do to keep our patients, staff, and community safe!

With smoke from the #creekfire this bad in our area right now, it's another one of those "stay inside for your health" kind of days as going outside is not recommended. Let's hope for rain, snow, or anything else that'll improve this hazardous air quality in the near future.

Meet Candace, the newest member of our Population Health team. Candace is a Registered Nurse who joined Mammoth Hospital in 2017. She has spent much of her nursing career in emergency and trauma medicine in Southern California. In 2018, she moved to Mammoth with her Fiancé full time, to chase their dreams of living and working in the Eastern Sierra. In April, she joined the Population Health Team, serving the Medicare population of Mammoth and surrounding communities. Our P...opulation Health Department aims to care holistically for the Medicare population of the Eastern Sierra. We work collaboratively with all members of the health care team, for patients with two or more chronic conditions, with the goal of decreasing unnecessary hospital and emergency department admissions. This approach to care empowers patients to take an active role in managing their health, to optimize their overall wellbeing. Outside of work, Candace enjoys all the adventures that the mountains have to offer, making Mammoth a perfect fit for both her skillsets as a nurse as well as hobbies and interests!

A while back we wrote about Ryan Tetz, who outside his job as an OR nurse at Mammoth Hospital, likes to pursue "hard things. There are 13 peaks above 14,000' in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Ryan Tetz set out to summit all 13 14ers in a single push. A successful effort requires more than 100 miles of travel, much of it off-trail, and over 40,000 feet of elevation gain. We truly don't know how he does it but here is a video showing the feat.... https://vimeo.com/447922920

Despite having to cancel our Day of Golf this year due to smoke, we want to thank each and every one of you for supporting the Cancer Outreach Program. Our heartfelt thanks to all of you!

Check out our breast imaging team, Dr. Parisky, Maria, Christy, Samantha, Sandy, and Denise all decked out in pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Looking good gang! #breastcancerprevention #breasthealth #breastcancerawarenessmonth #breastcancerawareness #mammography #mammogram #3dmammography #elevateyourhealth #mammothlakes #monocounty

Don't forget! We are offering $10 mammograms for the entire month of October, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Evening appointments are being offered this week from 4-9pm on Wednesday, October 7th and on Saturday, October 10th. Our state-of-the-art 3D mammography exams offer the most advanced technology available in early detection.... For more details or to make an appointment call our Medical Imaging department at (760) 924-4070. $10 Mammogram offer applies to uninsured women 40 and over who are symptom-free with no prior history of breast cancer.

Smoke rolling in this evening. Here's to hoping your weekend looks more like the left side of this photo.

Shoot, someone just told us it was National Surgical Technologists Week so today we want to show our gratitude! (We're grateful for them every day but today we're announcing it). Surgical techs are responsible for making the operating room efficient while ensuring patient safety, and this team is the best of the best! Here are a few of our Surgical Techs, Michael White, Heather Oddo, and Chris Wylie showing us how it's done! Thanks team for putting our patients first with everything you do!

In honor of October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Mammoth Hospital is again proud to offer $10 Mammograms! Our state-of-the-art 3D mammography exams offer the most advanced technology available in early detection. Pictured here is our breast imaging team, Christy, Sandy, and Denise. $10 Mammogram offer applies to uninsured women 40 and over who are symptom-free with no prior history of breast cancer. ... For your convenience, we're also offering evening mammography appointments on October 7th and October 10th. For more details or to make an appointment call our Medical Imaging department at (760) 924-4070.

Q: If 2020 were a drink, what would it be? A: Colonoscopy Prep. ...in all seriousness:... Regular screening, beginning at age 50, is the key to preventing colorectal cancer. Among cancers that affect both men and women, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Every year, about 140,000 people in the United States get colorectal cancer, and more than 50,000 people die of it. Risk increases with age. More than 90% of colorectal cancers occur in people who are 50 years old or older. Precancerous polyps and colorectal cancer don’t always cause symptoms, especially at first. If you have symptoms, they may include blood in or on the stool, stomach pain that doesn’t go away, or losing weight and you don’t know why. If you have any of these symptoms, see your doctor. There are several screening test options. Talk with your doctor about which is right for you. Only about two-thirds of adults in the United States are up-to-date with colorectal cancer screening. If you are over 50, it’s time to get your preventative colonoscopy screening. For more info or to make an appointment, go to www.mammothhospital.com.