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To advertise in Beaumont Now Contact Courtney Taylor at Image Up Advertising & Design 909-797-3647 • Fax 909-797-3645 • imageup1@verizon.net Government contacts BeAUmonT CITy CoUnCIl Brenda Knight: Mayor, Jeff Fox: Mayor Pro Tem, Brian DeForge: Councilman Roger Berg: Councilman, David Castaldo: Councilman BeAUmonT PlAnnIng CommIssIon Wayne Dale, Richard Bennecke, Nathan Smith, Nick Wirick, Robert Tinker County oF RiveRside 5th distRiCt supeRvisoR Marion Ashley, 4080 Lemon St., 5th floor, Riverside, CA 92502 951-955-1050 • Fax 951-955-9030 • Email: mashley@rcbos.org state RepResentatives Assemblyman Brian Nestande, 2091 West Florida Ave., Ste. 125 Hemet, CA 92545 (951) 925-8306 (951) 658-4193 Fax Capitol Office: State Capitol, Room 4139, Sacramento, CA 95814 916-319-2042 • Fax 916-319-2142 united states RepResentatives U.S. Congress: 36th Congressional District: Raul Ruiz District Office: 777 East Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 338 Palm Springs, CA 92262 U.S. Senate: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D) District Office: 750 B St., Ste. 1030, San Diego, CA 92101 619-231-9712 • Fax 619-231-1108 • Email: senator@feinstein.senate.gov Senator Barbara Boxer (D) District Office: 3403 10th Street, Ste. 704 • Riverside, CA 92501 951-684-4849 • Fax 202-228-3868 • Email: senator@boxer.senate.gov City Of Beaumont, California Beaumont Civic Center • 550 e. 6th st., Beaumont, Ca 92223 951-769-8520 • Fax 951-769-8526 email: cityhall@beaumontcares.com • www.BeaumontCares.com Beaumont Chamber of Commerce 726 Beaumont ave • Beaumont, Ca 92223 951-845-9541 • Fax 951-769-9080 director@beaumontcachamber • assistant@beaumontcachamber marketing@beaumontcachamber.com • www.beaumontcachamber.com 2 BEAUMONT NOW | MARCH 2014 BEAUMONT NOW | MARCH 2014 3 2013 Board of Directors president Robin Knight Hayward, Tilton & Rolapp Insurance Assoc. vice president Mark turner San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital treasurer tammy G Carter, ea Accurate Tax secretary lynn elder Childhelp Merv Griffin Village Board Members Lynn Bogh Baldi, Director Emeritus sean Balingit, Baldi Bros. Linda hanley, The Bank of Hemet Jackie Johnson- Guide Dogs of the Desert Richard Meinhold, Catch A Star Theatrical Players valerie Menefee, State Farm Insurance Lyle Millage, Director Emeritus Brian sylva, San Bernardino Valley College Michelle torrez, EcoPro Carpet Care Jim Walling, Community Leader Chamber Staff Executive Director Sheri Bogh Office Assistant Cathy Hlebasko Marketing/Membership Melina Heath Volunteers Donna Abbott Anita Davis Donna Franco Nadine Lowder Melody Seewoster Charla Sparks Darlene Welch Anita Worthen Ambassador Team Dwight Addleman, LifeSpring Christian Church Randy Harris, Mr. Real Estate Steven Leach, ING Financial Partners Anita Worthen, VFW Coordinator Published by the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce and Image Up Advertising & Design By Mark Turner, Chamber Board Vice- President; Chief Executive Officer, San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital Our community hospital continued its growth pattern in 2013, seeing more patients than ever before. Patient volumes increased in almost every service category compared to the previous year. Surgeries performed increased by 10 percent, ER visits rose by six percent, and inpatient admissions inched up on percent. These increases in patient volume allowed us to collect 3.5 percent more in revenue than the prior year, even though government cuts in Medicare and Medi-Cal funding declined by almost 10 percent! We did benefit from some short term governmental funding programs related to implementing electronic medical record systems and caring for uninsured and Medi-Cal patients. The increase in patients is largely due to new doctors recruited into our Pass area by Beaver Medical Group and Loma Linda University Health. Through our common management company, EPIC Management, we added physician specialists in orthopedics, general surgery, urology, and Obstetrics/ Gynecology that see patients in the Beaver Medical Group offices and use San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital for hospital inpatient and outpatient services. These doctors not only see more patients locally, but they also bring new and added medical services so residents can more often stay local for their healthcare needs. Look for more physicians to be added this year. Of course, I would be remiss in not mentioning the impact of opening our new Emergency Department/Intensive Care Unit building on patient volumes. The new building more than doubles the number of ER and ICU beds, and since opening in May 2013 our ER volumes have increased 8 percent and the number of admissions from the ER increased 30 percent! As the saying goes, "build it and they will come" perhaps has more truth to it than we realized. We have more growth ahead of us as more and more people move into our Pass area. We have incorporated that population growth into our future building plans. Currently we are seeking funding to complete the construction of our last major patient care building, a 6-story structure that will provide us 120 private patient rooms, four major surgical suites, and state of the art imaging equipment and technology. Once this building is open we will have all of the space and technology we need to serve our population for the next 40 years. Look for more news on this last major project as we head through 2014! San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital Safe Care * Quality Care * Our Care San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital Continues to Grow

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