Staff Nurse 8 Hr
SEQUOIA HOSPITAL (Silicon Valley/Peninsula, California)

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A WORLD CLASS HOSPITAL IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Ideally situated 25 miles south of San Francisco and 25 miles north of San Jose, Sequoia Hospital is an accredited, 421-bed community hospital with approximately 1,050 employees and 496 medical staff, offers a full range of medical, surgical, and specialty programs.

  * 2006 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence recipient, rating Sequoia in the top 5% nationwide by HealthGrades, the nation's leading healthcare ratings company

  * Sequoia Hospital, 2006, is designated as a mentor hospital in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 100,000 Lives Campaign, contributing to the estimated 122,300 lives saved in the program's first 18 months. Sequoia has successfully implemented all six proven health care interventions and now advises other hospitals nationwide.
Cardiovascular Services

  * HealthGrades, the nation's leading healthcare ratings company, rated Sequoia in 2007:
- Best in California for Overall Cardiac Services
- HealthGrades 2007 Cardiac Care Excellence Award recipient, the only hospital in northern California to receive the award
- Top 5% nationwide for Overall Cardiac Services, Cardiology Services, Coronary Interventional Procedures

  * Hospital Compare rates Sequoia in the top 10% nationwide of hospital goals across a wide range of cardiac care quality measures and pneumonia care quality measures for 2005. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) along with the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA), a public-private collaboration established to promote reporting on hospital quality of care.
Stroke

  * HealthGrades 2007 Stroke Care Excellence Awards recipient
Birth Center
  * Voted "Best Place to Have a Baby" by Bay Area Parent Magazine 2004
ER
  * ER ranks in the top 10% nationwide for patient satisfaction according to 2004 Avatar Surveys, the CHW patient satisfaction survey vendor; our ER has been named Emergency Department of the Year by CA Emergency Physicians, the state¡®s largest emergency medical group
Community Awards
  * 2005 City of San Carlos Award of Excellence recognizing the "Sequoia Hospital Health and Wellness Partnership with the San Carlos Youth Center", California Park and Recreation Society, District IV
Leadership Awards
  * Glenna Vaskelis, President and Administrator, has been named one of the Most Influential Business Women in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times in 2006

Operating Room RN with previous experience required in general surgery or graduate of recent O.R. training program. Flexible hours available.This position is represented by CNA and is covered by the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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