Greater Sonoma County

Sonoma County Area Agency on Aging

Find out about services available to seniors, adults with disabilities and caregivers in Sonoma County. They also provide links to other web sites that may be of interest.

The Sonoma County Area Agency on Aging is responsible for policy, planning, funding and advocacy to address the needs of seniors (age 60 and older), adults with disabilities (age 18 and older), and family caregivers. The Sonoma County Area Agency on Aging services include: information and assistance, and two case management programs (Linkages and Multipurpose Senior Services program).

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Sonoma County Health Care System Crisis

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Sonoma County is in the middle of re-engineering the county’s health care system for service to MediCal and uninsured populations with the Department of Health Services in the lead. A DHS Planning and Implementation Committee is now working with Partnership Health Plan to design and fund the care delivery system that will become operational in Sonoma County later in 2008.

Sonoma County is also in the process of assessing the impacts and potential for Sutter Health Center intent to transition out of its Health Access Agreement to provide care for the county’s indigent and uninsured. Important meetings and documents related to the Proposed Sutter/Memorial transaction may be accessed at Healthcare Impact Assessment

Sonoma County Human Services Information and Referral Service

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An online directory.

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Sonoma County Transit

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Complete schedules and maps for all buses serving Sonoma County and Cities within the County. Information about paratransit program.

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Sonoma County Veterans Service Office

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The county Veterans Service Office program was established in California in 1946 to provide assistance to veterans and their families. They are not part of the Department of Veterans Affairs (“The VA”). They are a county agency dedicated to serving veterans and their families. They are knowledgeable about the huge array of programs, benefits and services that are available today.

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Spiritual Care Education and Training Program

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Support Group Listings for the Petaluma area

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Compiled and maintained current by the Redwood Health Library (Petaluma, CA).

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Sutter Senior Health Center

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The Senior Health Center (SHC) was closed in 2003 but the excellent SHC Library remains and is housed in the Women's Health Center located in the Sutter Medical Center building at the northeast corner of Steele Lane and Administration Center Drive in Santa Rosa.

Dr. Mana Hobson, former SHC Medical Director and geriatrics specialist, is in private practice and may be contacted at 707-538-6010. Gina Osbeck, SHC Social Work and Case Manager, is now with Sutter VNA and Hospice.

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Sutter Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice

Sutter Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) & Hospice (formerly Home Hospice of Sonoma County) , the oldest hospice in Sonoma County) extends the continuum of health care from hospitals and doctors' offfices directly into patients' homes, where they receive medical attention, education, and compassionate care needed to recover or live with illness to the fullest extent possible. Our focus is to keep families together during a stressful time, and we care for the whole family with social services and emotional support. For many patients, we are all that stands between them and the "revolving door" of repeated hospitalizations, emergency room visits, or nursing facilities .

Sutter VNA and Hospice Support Group Listing for Sonoma County and Bay Region

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The Sutter VNA & Hospice Bereavement Program offers individual and group support to those who have experienced a loss, as well as special programs to meet other needs.

Our Bereavement Team also offers education, training, and emergency response to businesses and schools.

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