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Santa Barbara Independent
Cottage Health Welcomes Neuro-Oncologist Dr. Douglas E. Ney
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA—March 18, 2026—Dr. Douglas E. Ney, a board-certified neurologist and neuro- oncologist, has joined the Cottage Neurosciences Clinic, expanding access to specialized neuro-oncology care for patients across the Central Coast. Dr. Ney specializes in the diagnosis...
lompocvmc.com
Lompoc Valley Medical Center Builds Local Pathway for Future Clinical Laboratory Scientists
Lompoc Valley Medical Center is expanding opportunities for those interested in laboratory medicine careers by developing a local pathway for Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) training. LVMC employee April Villarreal recently became a licensed CLS and played a key role in helping design a program that allows students to complete their...
syvnews.com
Lompoc Health adds internal medicine physician Dr. Soumya Yeturi
Lompoc Valley Medical Center and Lompoc Health have a new internal medicine physician — Dr. Soumya Yeturi now seeing patients. Yeturi recently joined the medical staff and is practicing at Lompoc Health – North Third Center as one of four new physicians as the organization expands services to meet growing demand, the hospital explained.
Coastal View
Downtown can’t take more traffic
The ERC, EIR and CEQA (state) are all about environmental quality issues and impacts. Traffic impacts become Air Quality Impacts when motorists are stalled with their engines running creating a toxic stew of exhaust fumes. This then becomes quality of life issues if you have breathing problems. The choked intersection...
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Health adds internal medicine physician Dr. Soumya Yeturi
Lompoc Valley Medical Center and Lompoc Health have a new internal medicine physician — Dr. Soumya Yeturi now seeing patients. Yeturi recently joined the medical staff and is practicing at Lompoc Health – North Third Center as one of four new physicians as the organization expands services to meet growing demand, the hospital explained.
Noozhawk
Lompoc Valley Medical Center Builds Local Path for Clinical Lab Scientists
Lompoc Valley Medical Center (LVMC) is expanding opportunities for those interested in laboratory medicine careers by developing a local pathway for Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) training. LVMC employee April Villarreal recently became a licensed CLS and played a key role in helping create a program that allows students to complete...
Santa Barbara Independent
Cottage Health Appoints Ryan Kelly as Chief Innovation Officer
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA—March 16, 2026—Cottage Health has appointed Ryan Kelly, Ph.D., as its first Chief Innovation Officer, a newly established role designed to advance innovation across the health system and strengthen strategic partnerships. Kelly will lead the Compton...
Santa Barbara Edhat
New Behavioral Wellness Service Center Opens in Lompoc
Open House to Highlight Integrated Mental Health and Substance Use Services. The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness will host an open house on Wednesday, March 18, from 10:00–11:00 a.m. to celebrate the opening of its new Behavioral Wellness Service Center located at 425 West Central Avenue in Lompoc.
Coastal View
County Supes to greenhouse cannabis growers: ‘Enough is enough’
Eight years after county opened the door wide to the cannabis industry, the Board of Supervisors gave notice Tuesday that it was pulling in the welcome mat. Just a year ago, the board ordered all greenhouse growers, most of them in the Carpinteria Valley, to get “multi-technology carbon filtration,” commonly called “scrubbers” — or some “equivalent technology” — up and running inside their greenhouses by March 18, 2026.
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara Surgeon Calls Out Health Insurance Giant
Before he moved to town in 2016, Dr. Kevin Casey served as a Navy trauma surgeon during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, when he’s not performing 10-hour surgeries or making his rounds, Casey and his team of billers at Santa Barbara Vascular Specialists do battle with American insurance carriers over their routine denial of care.
Santa Barbara Independent
New Behavioral Wellness Service Center Opens in Lompoc
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness will host an open house on Wednesday, March 18, from 10:00–11:00 a.m. to celebrate the opening of its new Behavioral Wellness Service Center located at 425 West Central Avenue in Lompoc.
Santa Barbara Edhat
Health Experts Convene in Santa Barbara to Advance Clinical Care for Long COVID
California Clinical Implementation Forum Equips Healthcare Providers with Latest Research and Treatment Strategies. The County of Santa Barbara Health Department along with The Chesley Initiative, CenCal Health, the James S. Bower Foundation, and Cottage Health presents the California Clinical Implementation Forum on Long COVID & Infection Associated Chronic Conditions and Illnesses (IACCI) on March 21, 2026 from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm PST at the Mar Monte Hotel in Santa Barbara. The event gathers healthcare leaders, clinicians, researchers, and community members to help better diagnose and treat Long COVID and IACCI.
lompocvmc.com
Lompoc Health Welcomes Internal Medicine Physician Dr. Soumya Yeturi
Lompoc Valley Medical Center and Lompoc Health are pleased to welcome board-certified Internal Medicine physician Dr. Soumya Yeturi to the medical staff. Dr. Yeturi is now seeing patients at Lompoc Health – North Third Center. She is one of four new physicians joining Lompoc Health in the coming months,...
Santa Barbara Independent
Sutter Health’s Greater Central Coast Expands Access to Surgical and Cancer Care with Addition of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon and First Female Radiation Oncologist
SANTA BARBARA, Calif — Sutter Health’s Greater Central Coast announces that plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr. Daniel E. Wong and radiation oncologist Dr. H. Katherine Kim, have joined the organization, expanding the community’s access to surgical and cancer care and reducing barriers to critically needed procedures and treatment.
Santa Barbara Independent
Health Experts Convene in Santa Barbara to Advance Clinical Care for Long Covid
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA MARIA, Calif.) – The County of Santa Barbara Health Department along with The Chesley Initiative, CenCal Health, the James S. Bower Foundation, and Cottage Health presents the California Clinical Implementation Forum on Long COVID & Infection-Associated Chronic Conditions and Illnesses (IACCI) on March 21, 2026 from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm PST at the Mar Monte Hotel in Santa Barbara. The event gathers healthcare leaders, clinicians, researchers, and community members to help better diagnose and treat Long COVID and IACCI.
kclu.org
Nonprofit South Coast clinic network gets one of the largest gifts in its history
A community clinic system on the South Coast has received one of the largest gifts in its history. Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics received a $5 million contribution from the Montecito-based Wyatt family. It will be used to help complete a three-story, state-of-the-art clinic that’s currently under construction on Santa Barbara’s Westside. The facility will be named the Wyatt Family Health Center.