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On October 19, 2014 at 2050 hours, an Amador County Sheriff’s Deputy attempted to detain a subject operating an ATV on Carson Drive in Pioneer. The subject failed to yield and led deputies on a pursuit from Carson Drive, onto Highway 88, and then onto Pioneer Creek Road.  The deputies ultimately lost sight of the ATV and terminated the pursuit.  Sheriff’s Deputies followed the dust trail from the ATV.  The deputies subsequently located the subject on a driveway off Sugar Pine Drive and attempted to detain him again.  The subject drove the ATV cross country until it became disabled in the manzanita.  The subject then fled on foot.  

An aircraft from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was requested.  The CHP aircraft utilizing F.L.I.R. located a heat signature in a nearby creek bed.  Amador County Sheriff’s Deputies searched the creek bed and located the subject who was arrested without further incident.  Upon searching the subject and the ATV, over a pound of marijuana was located. 

The subject was identified as Rodney Wayne Maisenbach Jr., 29, a parolee at large. Maisenbach was charged with violation of CVC section 2800.1(A), evading a peace officer; PC 3000.08(c), violation of parole; and HS 11357(c), possession of over an ounce of marijuana.  Maisenbach was booked into the Amador County Jail.

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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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