Historic Petaluma rehab center to close

By PAUL PAYNE
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
St. Anthony Farm, a Petaluma dairy and rehabilitation center where people have been fighting the demons of drug and alcohol addiction since 1970, will close its doors next year, officials said.
Barry Stenger, director of development and communications for the nonprofit St. Anthony Foundation in San Francisco, said the facility will shut [...]

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Re: Orenda Center

From: Rita Scardaci
Date: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Orenda Center is not closing, as we discussed, the department does have a budget deficit for FY 08-09 and we are working very hard to put together a balanced budget. One area of concern is Alcohol and Other Drug Services, however no decision has [...]

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BREAKING NEWS Hospital, medical officials meet on solution to mental care facility

SONOMA COUNTY, April 23, 2008 – Leaders from every hospital in the county met with other mental health stakeholders this morning to discuss two possible options for opening a much-needed acute adult inpatient psychiatric facility.
In March, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital officials announced the closure of the county’s only facility of this type, leaving a gap [...]

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Three hundred county patients will move to community clinics

Press Democrat March 17, 2008 by D. ASHLEY VERRILL
SONOMA COUNTY – Southwest Community Health Center and other community clinics recently finalized an agreement to absorb approximately 300 mental health patients from the county for the purpose of integrating their mental and physical care, according to county officials.
The 300 are described as those with mild [...]

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