Santa Clarita’s local healthcare provider, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, announced Wednesday that a new Chief of Staff has been appointed. Louie-Marc Contreras, MD, a trauma surgeon at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, has been elected Chief of Staff by the hospital’s medical staff. Prior to his appointment, Dr. Contreras served on the hospital’s Medical Executive Committee as Deputy Chief of Staff. ...

A man, found unresponsive on the ground of a bus stop near the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, was pronounced dead Friday morning.  Around 8:30 a.m. Friday, emergency responders received reports of a dead body at the bus stop on the 23000 block of McBean Parkway near the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, according to Lt. Henry Lima with the Santa Clarita ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) reported Monday that there was an increasing number of coronavirus cases being identified among health care workers. Public Health reports a high proportion of health care workers, across a variety of settings, are fully vaccinated with either two doses of an mRNA vaccine, or one dose of Johnson and Johnson ...

Five additional COVID-19 related deaths were reported at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital over the holiday weekend. The new deaths, which took place between Friday, Dec. 24 and Sunday, Dec, 26, bring the total number of coronavirus-related deaths at the local hospital to 195 since March of 2020. While the sudden spike in deaths is unusual, hospitalizations due to coronavirus remain ...

Another COVID-19-related death was reported at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital on Tuesday. This is the 190th death due to coronavirus at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in 2021, and the 344th since the beginning of the pandemic, according to KHTS records. Currently there are 24 COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Henry Mayo, a marked difference compared to the 2020 hospitalization rate of ...

Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital announced three additional coronavirus-related deaths Monday, just before the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) reported its second case of the Omicron variant on Thursday.  Reaching 184 fatalities within Henry Mayo’s hospital walls since the beginning of the pandemic, the hospital has reported three coronavirus-related deaths on Monday, two of which died on ...

In honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital is set to offer its diabetes prevention program to qualified participants who feel they are at risk for diabetes. Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital is set to offer its diabetes prevention program, known as the Prevent T2 National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), to qualified participants at risk for diabetes in ...

Carissa Bortugno was officially appointed to the position of vice president of clinical support, food and nutrition and environmental services at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital on Monday. Bortugno joined the Henry Mayo team approximately ten years ago as the hospital’s manager of pharmacy services before being promoted to pharmacy director and, most recently, senior director for clinical support services, according ...

In an effort to inform Santa Clarita residents of the ever-growing diabetes epidemic across the nation, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital is inviting the public to a free screening of “Blood Sugar Rising” next week.  “Blood Sugar Rising” provides an “eye-opening look at the growing epidemic of diabetes in the United States of America” and is scheduled to screen next week ...

The American Heart Association presented Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital with a Get with the Guidelines-Stroke GoldPlus award for commitment to prioritizing quality care for stroke patients. For the ninth consecutive year, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s GoldPlus “Get With The Guidelines”-Stroke Quality Achievement Award for their commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate ...