There’s nothing more important than the health and safety of our employees, patients and communities. Our Ebola Virus Emergency Planning Team (known internally as the SHEMS Ebola Response Planning Team) has taken significant steps to prepare for the screening, isolation and the treatment of Ebola patients, with an unwavering commitment to help ensure the safety of our nurses and other frontline staff.

Based on current CDC guidelines, we have policies, procedures and action plans in place at hospitals, care centers and patient call centers around our Northern California network. Our Ebola Virus Emergency Planning Team widely distributed and reinforced these policies and action plans for our frontline health care workers. Our work to repeatedly train and drill continues.

Our multidisciplinary team consists of infection preventionists, infectious disease specialists, and critical care, emergency department and emergency preparedness experts. The team closely monitors this rapidly evolving situation and any emerging guidelines from federal, state and local agencies, including the WHO, CDC and CDPH. It will continually update our policies, procedures, action plans, training and drilling as new learnings arise from other parts of the nation or world.

Sutter Health has taken multiple steps to prepare for the Ebola virus disease. For example:

An Ebola Virus Disease Action Plan: This plan establishes a unified framework for our organization’s preparation and response to the Ebola virus.

An Ebola Virus Disease Emergency Operations Plan Policy and Procedure: This plan details the necessary steps to triage, admit and care for a patient known or suspected to have the Ebola virus.

Ebola Virus Disease Screening Protocols: As a first step toward identifying the Ebola virus, our protocols call for proactively screening for fever and asking patients about their travel history and symptoms. These screening protocols are in place at entry points to our network, including emergency departments, hospital units, urgent care centers, primary care doctors' offices and surgery centers, as well as through our call centers.

An Ebola Virus Disease Emergency Department Guide: It outlines specific roles and responsibilities for emergency department staff to help prevent the spread of the disease to health care workers, patients and visitors.

Approved Ebola Virus Disease Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Register and Instructions: Clinicians must wear specific PPE at all times when caring for a patient suspected of having the Ebola virus. Equipment includes gloves, gowns, shoe covers, eye protection and facemasks. To help ensure the safety of our staff, we are providing training and instructions on how to properly don, doff and dispose of PPEs, using a buddy, monitor and checklist system.

oOur hands-on training specific to the use of PPE starts with those employees most likely to care for an Ebola patient and extends to other personnel, as appropriate.

Ebola Virus Disease Response Training: Preventing the spread of any infectious disease is ongoing in our care centers. Doctors, nurses, clinicians and staff participate in emergency drills. Across our network, we’re actively training all admitting and clinical personnel to identify and isolate a potential patient with Ebola virus. We’ve also begun more in-depth training for those most likely to provide care and treatment to a patient with Ebola virus disease.

o Depending on individual roles and responsibilities, employees receive training in the form of hands-on practice, table-top and in-depth drills, demonstrations, online tutorials, town hall meetings, informational videos and materials, and frequent updates.

We are actively engaging with local, state and federal elected leaders as well as public health officers, and other health care systems to share action plans and best practices. This work continues to help ensure a coordinated community response to the Ebola virus.

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SACRAMENTO – In an effort to fight distracted driving and raise public awareness during National Teen Driver Safety Week, October 19-25, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is joining with the Office of Traffic Safety and California Highway Patrol to launch an interactive, mobile and online game called “Distraction Zone”that helps educate teen drivers about safe driving. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for 14- to 18-year-olds in the United States.   

“Playing the Distraction Zone game will provide teens with lifelong skills that will not only help keep these young drivers safe, but protect highway workers,” said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. 

According to 2012 data from The National Highway Traffic Safety Association, among drivers 15- to 19-years-old who were distracted in fatal crashes, nearly 1 in 5 were distracted by their phones. Speeding is also a common contributing factor in fatal crashes. In 2012, speeding was a factor in almost half (48 percent) of the crashes that killed 15- to 20-year-old drivers.

The Distraction Zone game is specifically designed to reinforce key safe driving behaviors like avoiding distractions, being alert, and slowing down when approaching highway work zones. The mobile and online format helps get teen drivers engaged while actively learning safe driving skills.  Mobile versions of the game are available for download on the App Store and Google Play and the online version is played at www.DistractionZone.com. As always, teens should not play the game or text while driving.

An added incentive to entice teen game play is a contest being run by the campaign’s media partner, iHeart Media. The Distraction Zone contest invites teen players to submit their highest game score for a chance to win cash prizes. The top prize, donated by iHeart Media, is $500. Players can play multiple times to achieve their best score and enter the contest between now and June 15, 2015.

The Distraction Zone campaign also includes a safe driving education program for high schools called the Distraction Zone School Challenge. This program calls on student leaders to create an on-campus traffic safety event as part of a competition to win a cash grant up to $2,000 for their school, which is also donated by iHeart Media. Applications to enter the competition are due by December 1, 2014.

For more information on Caltrans’ teen safe driving campaign andtheDistraction Zone programs, visit www.BeWorkZoneAlert.com

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San Joaquin County – Today, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the city of Stockton and the San Joaquin Council of Governments celebrated the completion of the Interstate 5 (I-5) French Camp Interchange Project.

The $53 million French Camp Road Interchange Project widened French Camp Road to six lanes, constructed new on-ramps and added new auxiliary lanes on I-5 between French Camp Road and Downing Avenue. The average daily traffic volume along this stretch of the freeway surpasses 100,000 vehicles. 

The project received nearly $4 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, nearly $14.6 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide. The project is also supported by funding from Measure K and federal highway dollars.

The French Camp Interchange Project was one component of an overall plan to improve traffic circulation in South Stockton. Construction extending Sperry Road to French Camp Road, creating a new link between I-5 and State Route 99 was completed earlier this year.

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JACKSON, CA- Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort is pleased to welcome The Chicago Alliance, featuring former Chicago band mates Danny Seraphine and Bill Champlin, to the Grand Oak Ballroom stage on Friday, November 21 at 7 p.m.

Danny Seraphine and Bill Champlin have reunited from their Chicago days to embark on their new adventure: The Chicago Alliance. Seraphine was a co-founder, drummer, and songwriter in Chicago from 1967 until 1990 and Grammy winner Bill Champlin was a featured lead vocalist and keyboardist from 1981 until 2009. Chicago is one of the most successful pop rock acts of all time, selling more than 100 million records, second only to the Beach Boys. Chicago is known for their hits “Hard Habit To Break,” “Look Away,” “Hard To Say I’m Sorry,” and “Saturday In The Park.”

With over 50 years collectively invested in the music, Seraphine and Champlin’s joint contributions to Chicago are unmistakable. Join Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort and experience The Chicago Alliance in all their pop rock glory.

Will call opens at 5 p.m., the doors open at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m. Beer, wine, and food will be available.

Tickets are on sale now starting at ^$20 for Dreamcatcher’s Club^® members, available only at the Casino Cashier’s Cage, and starting at ^$25 for non-Dreamcatcher’s Club^® members, available at the Casino Cashier’s Cage or online at JacksonCasino.com.

Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort is located at 12222 New York Ranch Road, Jackson, CA 95642. For more information, call 800-822-9466 or visit JacksonCasino.com.

Located in the Sierra foothills town of Jackson, CA, Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort is owned by the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians, a federally recognized Indian tribe. A sovereign government, the Rancheria is dedicated to developing projects that not only enhance the tribe’s ability to remain self-reliant, but also reflect a commitment to be a good neighbor.

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On October 19, 2014 at 0707 hours, the Amador County Sheriff’s Office received a report of indiscriminant shooting at 1515 Duck Creek Rd, Ione CA.  Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the scene and attempted to make contact with the residents at 1515 Duck Creek Road. 

When Deputies knocked on the front door of the residence, eight Hispanic males were seen running from the rear of the residence, jumping over the back fence and fleeing into the field behind the property.  The subjects were ordered to stop but did not comply.

Deputies requested assistance in creating a perimeter.  Additional Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer, an Ione Police Officer and a California Fish and Wildlife Officer responded to assist.

Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies located and detained three subjects, Blake Arnold Bowman, 23, of Martell; Taylor Brianne Hammock, 24, of Jackson Valley; and Zachary Gene Mabrey, 25, of Jackson Valley; who were inside the residence when deputies arrived on scene.  Sheriff’s Deputies observed a large outdoor marijuana cultivation site consisting of 66 growing marijuana plants and noticed that the living room, garage and detached shed on the property were all being used to process marijuana. 

A CHP helicopter conducted an aerial search while a canine search was conducted through the wooded area behind the residence.  No suspects were located at that time.

The Amador County Combined Narcotics Enforcement Team (ACCNET) was contacted and responded.  Investigators from ACCNET drafted and obtained a search warrant for the premises which yielded approximately 20 pounds of processed marijuana, a BHO laboratory, digital scales, packaging material, marijuana packaged for sales, a loaded shotgun and an AK-47 pattern rifle. 

Based on evidence obtained during the search, as well as statements from the involved parties, it was determined that Mabrey was being paid $500 a month for the use of his property by a Mexican Drug Trafficking Organization (MDTO).  The MDTO provided the marijuana plants, paid all expenses, and provided the man power to set up and tend to the marijuana.  In addition to $500.00 per month, Mabrey was to receive 1/3 of the total net of the marijuana harvested.  Based upon interviews it was determined that the group had already processed and removed over 40 pounds of processed marijuana.

While ACCNET processed the scene, a perimeter officer observed a van travelling west on the Highway 88.  The Officer noticed two Hispanic males in the back seat that attempted to hide themselves when passing the marked patrol vehicle.  The vehicle was detained and it was determined they were two of the subjects that fled from the house.  The subjects were covered in mud and grass and both smelled of marijuana. The subjects, Paris Fabian, 22, of Galt, and Adolfo Mendoza, 24, of Anderson were arrested.  The driver of the van, a local resident, said the subjects knocked on his door and asked for a ride to Lodi which he agreed to provide. 

Mabrey was arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale, manufacturing a controlled substance, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and conspiracy.  Hammock was arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale and conspiracy.  Bowman was arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana and conspiracy.  Mendoza and Fabian were both arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana and obstructing/delaying a peace officer.     

The investigation is ongoing at this time.

 Posted by TSPN TV Amador 

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