San Bernardino, California

I will focus on Penrose- St. Francis Hospital here in Colorado Springs, Colorado which is a non-profit faith based entity for the local community. If one were to review their website, even with the designation of a non-profit status they are consistently ranked at the highest levels for service. Penrose St. Francis was awarded the following: • Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence in 2014, 2015, and 2016 • Americas 50 Best Hospitals Award in 2013, 2014 and 2015 • Women’s Health Excellence Award 2013, 2014, and 2015 • America’s 100 Best Hospitals for General Service Award 2016 • Americas 100 Best Hospital for Orthopedic Surgery Award 2014, 2015, and 2016 Source: http://www.penrosestfrancis.org/psf/about-us/awards-and-recognition/healthgrades/ The list also includes several other awards that rate the hospital as a statistically offering phenomenal patient outcomes, those patients include a wide-range of individuals with contrasting levels of income to pay for services. They even offer curb side service to park your vehicle if you are in a hurry! Of particular note is the following excerpt from their website: • When it comes to your health care, you should never compromise. Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been recognized as the only Colorado recipient of Healthgrades America's 50 Best Hospitals for 8 consecutive years, placing us in the top 1% of hospitals in the nation. There are only 12 hospitals in the United States to achieve this award for eight…

Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) is an acute care facility located in Colton, California. The facility provides a full range of acute and psychiatric services, inpatient, and outpatient services and is also a teaching hospital. The medical center has three off site primary care clinics, which are the extensions of the outpatient services. The hospital houses multitude of services, which consist of: acute care hospital, outpatient (ambulatory) services, behavioral health and diagnostic…

points, we all have a community of practice. In which we can relate to having a significant event that has helped us identify ourselves as experts, within our community. In my case, my community of practice involves my number one hobby which is playing the violin. This takes place in a mariachi group here in the community of San Bernardino. Not to mention, this community of practice has been expertise within my community for a long period of time. I’ve been part of it since it established in…

a math professor was very enlightening. Mrs. Smith taught well by explaining problems step by step that made the information being taught clear and easy to pick-up and learn. “The final in this class was a piece of cake!” Josie said. She attended Chaffey for a year before deciding to put college on hold in order to better provide for her family. She began to work at an entry level position for a while. She learned that working at her job because of the pay and her experience was not going to be…

There are two cities who have had a profound impact in my life. Those cities are San Bernardino and Angelus Oaks. Both cities are located in the Inland Empire of Southern California.Both of these cities contribute different feelings and present a separate kind of home to me. When the two cities are compared they seem like completely different places, however they do share some similarities. Although Angelus Oaks and San Bernardino are completely different in weather, scenery, and the sounds one…

Visiting the PEM museum and discovering Gardner Pingree house and the Yin Yu Tang house, I learned many things throughout my whole experience. Going through two different houses and contrasting both of the houses seemed very easy because both of the house were from two different parts of the world. The Gardener's Pingree House was from U.S.A and the Yin Yu Tang House was from China. The Yin Yu Tang house was a Chinese house whose owner was a late dynasty merchant. The house was originally…

Jack Benny was an American comedian that performed in vaudeville, radio, television, and motion picture. He was known as the leading American entertainer of the 20th Century. His main character portrayal was a miser that played his violin badly. Ironically, he was actually very good at playing the violin. Jack was known for his perfect comedic timing. His career spanned over 50 years. Jack Benny’s birth name was Benjamin Kubelsky. He was born on February 14, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois. Both of…

Located in southern California, the so-called Inland Empire actually refers to two densely populated counties- San Bernardino and Riverside. These two counties cover 27,000 square miles, and boasts a combined population of 4 million. This makes the region as the 13th largest metropolitan area in the United States, and the fastest growing area in the state of California. It is expected that the growth of the region will be sustained in the next few years, with a steady population growth rate. In…

Bret Johnson has associated himself with the x-games, gravity games, World X games, and Rockstar Energy drink. The collaboration with Rockstar and the x-games made him grow in this industry as a fan and a business man. He understood a sport well and that led him into becoming a leader in movement to make this sport viral. But there are certain aspects in towards how somethings he could’ve doing better. Bret Johnson had one goal while working at Rockstar and that was to beat the prestige’s red…

The California High Speed Railroad should not be built because of the rising money. The money needed for the project is continuously rising. The amount of money approved by the citizens was $9.95 billion. However, it rose to $13.5 billion. Then, it increased to $48.6 billion. The money kept rising from millions and billions! The “final” cost to build a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles by 2028 is predicted to be to a grand total of about $67.6 billion. It is claimed that…