About Us
We bring people together to provide compassionate care, promote health improvement, and create healthy communities. We've been here for generations - improving health, enriching lives and strengthening communities throughout Sonoma County and the North Coast region.
As the area's population has grown, so have we. In the years since establishing Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in 1950, we have expanded our local, not-for-profit network of hospitals, healthcare services and community outreach programs in keeping with the mission of our founders.
Today, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital provides comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and community outreach services provide the expert care you need - close to home. Should tragedy strike, we are the designated Level II Trauma Center for the North Coast region. When a child enters the world, we provide a safe, warm welcome. For those with life-limiting illness, we offer compassionate hospice services and palliative care.
We're the first choice among patients requiring specialized cardiac care, cancer treatment, sports medicine and rehabilitation, emergency care, psychiatric services and much more.
Our boards of trustees are volunteers, and these generous and highly qualified professionals have chosen to devote their time and talents to help navigate our most important issues and decisions, which in turn affect the entire community. The following people serve on the board of Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital:
- Sr. Nadine McGuinness
- Dr. Robert Feiwell
- Barry Friedman
- Tony Ghisla
- Jeff Kolin
- Karissa Kruse
- Debbie Meekins
- Dr. Ridgely Muller (COS)
- Bruce Okrepkie (Chair)
- Shirley Ward
- Sister Jayne Helmlinger
- Donovan Taylor (CAO)
- Terry Sanders
- Dr. Asia Downing (COS Elect)
Sonoma County
On New Year's Day 1950, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital opened its doors. More than 70 years later, Santa Rosa's premier hospital has expanded into a full-service, not-for-profit system of inpatient, outpatient, and community outreach services for the residents of Sonoma County and California's North Coast communities.
As a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, we are committed to the holistic care of persons – body, mind and spirit. The mission of Providence, of which we are a part, is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus in the tradition of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange by continually improving the health and quality of life of people in the communities we serve. Like the early Sisters who came out of their cloistered convent to care for the vulnerable and disadvantaged in the streets of Le Puy, France, our mission compels us to reach out beyond the walls of our hospitals to care for persons where there is a need.
Our expanding continuum of care today includes: urgent and emergent care, trauma services, inpatient and outpatient surgery, critical care, cardiology, oncology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, neurology, orthopedics, pediatrics, family-centered maternity care, newborn intensive care, transitional care, palliative care, home care, hospice, rehabilitation, work care, acute psychiatric services, mobile and dental clinics, health and wellness education, neighborhood organization, advocacy and youth mentoring.
Physicians throughout our extensive service area refer patients to Providence facilities for open heart surgery, neurosurgery, clinical cancer research, psychiatric care, rehabilitation and much more. Sophisticated diagnostic procedures available at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital include angiocardiography, cardiac catheterization, coronary angioplasty, cardiac electrophysiology, CT scanning, magnetic resonance imaging, color-flow Doppler echocardiography, laser lithotripsy, transesophageal ultrasound, video endoscopy and more.
Along with our affiliate hospitals Petaluma Valley Hospital and Healdsburg Hospital, we account for one-half of Sonoma County's available hospital beds. More than 2,000 dedicated employees serve the community through our integrated network of inpatient, outpatient and outreach modalities.
The history of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange in Sonoma County has been one of community support. In return, the community has benefited from a wide array of medical "firsts." Our history, commitment, and vision is to continue to provide our community with the best in health care consistent with our values of Compassion, Dignity, Justice, Excellence and Integrity.
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