Medical

San Bernardino will continue to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. Following a closed session Monday, city council members announced the city will continue its prohibition rather than consider allowing regulated dispensaries, according to a report in the San Bernardino County Sun. In fact, the city plans to get even more aggressive …

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center nurses protested today outside the San Bernardino County Government Center regarding stalled contract negotiations. The nurses, all members of the California Nurses Association, maintain that the delay at the Colton hospital is putting patients there in harms way, according to a report in the Inland Valley …

CBRE Group Inc. has been chosen to market a new 60,000-square-foot medical office building in Riverside. The building, Riverbrock Medical Plaza, is part of Riverside Community Hospital’s multi-million dollar expansion project that began during the spring of 2013, according to a statement released Tuesday by CBRE Group. Riverbrock Medical Plaza, …

California’s number one health care provider has opened a two-story facility in Riverside. Kaiser Permanente Meridian Medical Office, located at 14305 Meridian Parkway on the east end of the city, began accepting patients last month, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The building is within the 1,000-acre master planned …

Patton State Hospital made nearly $1 million in fraudulent payments to some of its employees between August 2007 and March 2011. An audit by the State Controller’s Office also found improper reporting of hours worked and inflated leave claims at the Highland hospital, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. …

Six Inland hospitals have been fined for mistakes in care that ultimately harmed patients and, in one case, caused a patient to die. The penalties, which were announced Thursday, were part of $775,000 in fines that the California Department of Public Health levied against nine hospitals throughout the state, according …