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8-11March LifeCare Campus Earns State Support• GoED Works for California• Governor Schwarzenegger

Leads Demolition Ceremony at March LifeCare Site

14-15Veterans Services for Riverside County

16-21A Look InsideThe Conceptual Master Plan

22-23Leading the WaySt. Bernardine Medical CenterStill Building on Founder’s Vision

24-25Deconstruct to ConstructThree Questions with US Demolition

29Life and Care People in the News

30Celebrating ExcellenceRiverside Medical Clinic Marks 75 Years by Preparing for the Future

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“On behalf of one of California’s business successes, we want to take this oppor-tunity to commend you for your vision in creating GoED -- promoting innovation, inspiration, and opportunity. The idea of not only attracting business to California from other states and countries by streamlining government red tape and pro-moting economic growth through innovation and entrepreneurship, we believe is foundational to the California Dream.” - Don Ecker

Managing Partner & FounderMarch HealthCare Development, LLC

A Personal Invitation

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome back. The

development of the

mission and vision of the

march lifecare campus

is quickly moving

forward. We are

delighted to celebrate and share some

of the exciting progress since our last issue.

First, let’s listen in to some remarks by

Gov. arnold Schwarzenegger on July 27th

at the Demolition ceremony: “We are

celebrating building something that no one

has seen in the world. They have attempted to do that but to have a medical

city being built? That’s the first in the world — not in the state, not in the

country but in the world. and the extraordinary economic activities that

they will bring to this area are something to celebrate.”

In this issue, we want to share the passion and progress that has

continued to develop over the last few months. We are pleased to highlight

the recent events for you and invite you along on this journey of wellness.

The theme and new brand of march lifecare is Healing Starts Here.

each day, march Healthcare Development continues to invite partners

to embrace the goal of building an integrated complex that will be a

medical city of HealING and comFoRT for generations to come.

We hope to convey our passion for serving the whole person. The

PeRSoNal acrostic that describes the communication effort of this issue

is Physical — emotional — Recreational — Spiritual — ontological —

Neurological — accountable and lovable. PeRSoNal! Please look at the

mHD conceptual master Plan with segment pull-outs illustrating this

inclusive “personal” focus.

over the last number of months, mlc has invited many partners into this

vital project. as you read through the magazine we invite you to join us

and envision a walk through the mlc campus and meet our partners. each

celebration, each event, each photo image, each step forward is a record

of a growing relationship between mlc, its valued partners and a more

involved community. on behalf of march lifecare, we at march Healthcare

Development thank you for opening up the pages of the past, the present

and invite you to catch a glimpse of the future.

-Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Please contact us at MLC at [email protected].


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When Louis Stewart first

heard about the March

LifeCare campus being

planned on surplus land

at the former March Air

Force Base in Riverside

County, he was intrigued. having spent over

a year working on California ‘s statewide

Census effort he was well aware of the

challenges the Inland region faced. Due to

the downturn in the economy and

decimation of Inland California’s booming

housing market, he knew the area suffered

from some of the highest unemployment

numbers in the state and construction was

one of the hardest hit sectors. What he

didn’t know was that the region was also

plagued with a shortage of hospital beds,

physicians, and allied health professionals.

even with his limited knowledge, the vision

beginnings

March LifeCare Campus Earns State SupportGovernor Schwarzenegger leads demolition ceremony

Photo by Khai LeGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a thumbs-up at the demolition ceremony. Standing behind him: Gresham-Savage CeO Mark Ostoich; MhD Founder Don ecker; and JPA Chair Richard Stewart.

Work begins on the first of 22 buildings slated to be razed to make way for the new medical city.


as it was presented to him was

something he wanted to learn

more about, so he contacted the

developer, Don Ecker.

His first correspondence with

Ecker, the managing partner for

March HealthCare Development

(MHD) and visionary for the March

medical campus, was brief. It was

simply an invitation to attend the

opening of the Governor’s Office

of Economic Development (GoED).

A new state agency, GoED

was created by Gov. Arnold

Schwarzenegger to serve as a “one

stop shop” to spark and sustain

business development in the state.

One day before the grand opening

of the agency, Ecker and his team

experienced their own new

beginning when he signed the

Disposition and Development

Agreement for the 236 acre site.

Stewart, winding down from the

Census, was one of the state

employees asked to launch the

new agency.

“I saw the value in the project

and knew Joel and the rest of the

office needed to meet the team,”

Stewart says, speaking of his

agency’s director Joel Ayala.

Ayala, the former president of

the California Hispanic Chamber of

Commerce, met Ecker and

members of the March LifeCare

team during the grand opening of

GoED’s Sacramento office and has

continued to develop a working

relationship with the project

leaders by offering state

assistance, connecting them to key

resources, and culminating

recently in facilitating a visit by

Gov. Schwarzenegger.

“When I first met the March

LifeCare group at the grand

opening I recognized that their

vision was huge but their passion

was even larger. They saw what

GoED represented and realized this

was a tool that they did not want

to let out of their sight,” says Ayala.

Since that initial introduction in

April, the GoED team has been to

Riverside and MHD has

participated in GoED meetings

several times a month.

“At our second meeting Joel and

Louis asked us what type of

assistance we need,” Ecker said to

a group of community leaders and

elected representatives at an event

photo by ted Ne villsLouis Stewart at GoED’s March LifeCare briefing in Riverside.

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held in early May to brief

GoED on the project.

The event included the

Chairman Richard

Stewart and Supervisor

Marion Ashley, the chair

and co-chair of the

March Joint Powers

Authority (JPA), the body

that governs the project

development. The

session also included Lori

Stone, JPA Executive

Director, and community

leaders and MHD

Advisory Board members. Ayala called the

project “phenomenal ... a great opportunity for

the entire region.”

With the GoED office firmly behind the project, the

next order of business, says Louis Stewart, was to

brief the governor’s staff. “Our due diligence process

took over a month. We

saw the project as an

innovative approach to

healthcare, a health and

wellness city, and nothing

like it in California.”

Stewart, now Deputy

Director of Innovation

& Emerging Technologies,

and his boss, Director

Ayala, educated the

governor’s staff on

the project.

“Not only does the

campus have business

support it has community support,” says Ayala.

“The governor recognizes that this project is tailor

made for our office’s mission. Mr. Ecker has spent

over 6 years working on approvals for this project,

if we can help streamline any processes or cut

red-tape we will.”

Don Ecker, left, and Director Joel Ayala at the opening of GoED in Sacramento.


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ONE OF THE GOALS of the

new GoED agency is to

encourage economic

development throughout

the state. As a

clearinghouse of

information on economic activities in

California, GoED staff also believes in

the development of innovative public/

private partnerships. In this effort, the

agency recently hosted a meeting to

introduce the March LifeCare team to

Cal Green @ Work, a collaboration of

nonprofit enterprise, private industry

and community entities dedicated to

developing sustainable green

solutions for California.

“I’ve never seen anything quite like

this … the potential this model can

and will have, not only here in the

USA, but throughout the world

astounds,” said Mary Lyn Kagan of the

Enterprise Development Network —

Overseas Private Investment Corp. who

was brought to the meeting through

Cal Green @ Work.

“We view this not as an experiment

in health care, but as an incredible

advance in healthcare maintenance

throughout the world … I will predict

that scores of international health

providers and developers will descend

upon this (project) in hopes of

replicating its unique features,” said

International HMO expert, Dene

McGriff, also of Cal Green @ Work.

Dr. Dudley Burton, Chair of the

Environmental Studies Department at

California State University, Sacramento,

and Director of Technology for Cal

Green @ Work was more than intrigued

by the possible partnership with March

LifeCare. “What we’re looking at here,

if energy efficiency systems are

thoroughly integrated into all phases

of the project — from HVAC to bio-

waste management — is the

preservation of the architectural

integrity and even enhancement of the

campus environment through

incredible savings — up to 60% of

energy costs — which could be

achieved, let alone the immediate ROI

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“America’s never seen anything like this.”— Selected remarks from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s July 27 speech at the demolition ceremony marking the start of the March LifeCare project.

“This is really terrific because it fits in so well with California because California is number one in so many different areas — if it is in high tech, green tech, if it is in nano tech, biotech, or if it is Hollywood or Silicon Valley or the Mojave Desert or all of those things. It’s unlike anything else in the world. And so we always are innovative in good times and in bad.

Photo by khai leGov. Schwarzenegger is the first to sign a salvaged piece of wall to comemmorate the start of demolition.

“More than a center or a campus, it is a city; it is the first health and wellness city in the world. So I’m very excited about this because the world will be watching us to see the future in action.

“And, of course, we are doing all of this with the best and the brightest in the country. This campus is being designed by the number one architect firm, HOK. And it is being built by California’s top hospital builder, McCarthy, which is another great celebration.

“... Today we are celebrating also the destruction — normally we celebrate the building but today we are celebrating the destruction — because sometimes you’ve got to get rid of and say ‘hasta la vista baby’ to a building. And that’s what we are doing here today. We are going to celebrate destroying some of these buildings and the next building will be right over there.”

“But there will be a hospital you will have here with skilled nurses, assisted living, a hotel, retail stores ...healing gardens and all kinds of things will be here.

“And that’s what all together makes it so unique, because there will be no project like this anywhere in the world.

“We don’t sit back and wait for good news to arrive. We create the action; we do something about that.

truly first-ever green health care

development.”

That caught the ear of Jack

Wyatt, MHD’s Energy Director

and CEO of Strategic

Connections, Inc. “You’re talking

about a Platinum Green

Certification rating for the

complex — now you’re talking

my game!” Donald Ecker’s

impressive team of professionals

represents one of California’s

most innovative health care

developers whose

comprehensive approach to

“community wellness” is a

paradigm shift in the way

medical management views

their delivery services.

Doug Krieger, President of

CGAW, suggested that a

“Veterans” Green Training

Institute” could be established

on the campus, along with

integrating veterans into

healthcare careers which could

be offered at the March

HealthCare Campus … Krieger

remarked: “This is an unusual

opportunity in extending

significant support systems to

veterans and underserved

populations — from healthcare,

medical training, trauma center

and community service

extensions to retail and a five-

star hotel — there’s incredible

community engagement

throughout the entire project

and all phases of the build-out –

it really deserves public, private

and philanthropic support.”

In tough economic times, this

meeting organized by GoED was

a good example of what can

happen when the public and

private sectors come together.



veterans

RiverSide County has the 10th largest

veteran population of all counties in the

united States. And of those 10 counties,

all have various vA hospitals and

numerous outpatient clinics located

within their county boundaries. All

except riverside.

At a meeting held in the Spring, disabled veteran

virgal Woolfolk spoke openly to local elected

officials and team leaders from the March LifeCare

campus about the concerns he and other local

veterans have when it comes to receiving care and

treatment. riverside County veterans are expected

to travel to the vA hospital in Loma Linda for

services. “it’s an access issue,” he said during a

meeting that included March Joint Powers

Authority vice-Chair Supervisor Marion Ashley and

JPA Chair and veteran richard Stewart. “We (March)

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Photo by ted ne villsdisabled veteran virgal Woolfolk and danielle Wheeler of the March Joint Powers Authority

“Our residents at Air Force Village West deserve healthcare options close to home … for all those who served our great nation with distinction and an unselfish commitment of time, talent, and service.”

— ret. brigadier General Charles lamb

could become the ‘light on the hill’ to show that

veterans in this county are cared for and receive

top-notch care.”

A month later at the groundbreaking ceremony in

front of the old March hospital, Retired Brigadier

General Charles Lamb, who is also CEO/President of

Air Force Village West, a retirement community of

over 650 residents near the project site, publicly

presented a letter to Congressman Ken Calvert

asking him to support the need for better and more

timely services for the veterans of the region.

For those who served with valor, integrity, and

dedication, Assemblyman Paul Cook would like to

see services return to the region that has the only

active reserve base in the area. Cook, who is chair

of the Assembly’s Veterans Affairs Committee,

believes “it is only right that they are honored justly

and receive every care they need to fully integrate

into society.”

From veterans and their advocates to Assembly-

members and college deans, there is a groundswell

of support to once again serve veterans at March.

As the dean of the first new medical school west of

the Mississippi in forty years, UC Riverside Medical

School Founding Dean G. Richard Olds sees the

mutual benefit of an affiliation with a VA outpatient

clinic. “A nearby public medical school would enrich

the health care environment for VA patients,

physicians, and other healthcare professionals,”

he wrote in a formal statement.

If you’re interested in joining the campaign

to bring veterans services back to the

March campus, please email us at:

[email protected].

Photos by khai leGov. Schwarzenegger surrounded by reservists from March ARB

March Base Honor Guard Staff Sergeant Randal Miller



INTRODUCING MARCH LIFECARE …

In April of this year, HOK, one of the nation’s

largest design firms and the developer of the

March lifeCare campus master plan, unveiled

to the public the conceptual design of the

entire 236 acre campus. The campus

planning team, led by HOK Vice-president of

Healthcare Alicia Wachtel and Sr. Vice-president

and Director of planning John Shreve, has

remained committed to creating a space that

redefines healthcare and wellness. The design

elements, conceived by Shreve, incorporate the

geometry of the March runways as well as the

spiritual and cultural symbolism of the circle in

both western and eastern religions and cultures.

The March lifeCare team is committed to the

development of centers of excellence to meet the

healing needs of all who visit the campus. Through

partnerships with hospitals, physician groups,

innovative thinkers and educational institutions,

the project developers strive to provide the best

care available and always put the needs of the

patient first.

conceptual master plan

GENERALAt an estimated cost of $3.3 billion, March LifeCare is a 6 million square foot 236 acre “health and wellness city” built from the ground up on surplus land of the former March Air Force Base, which was converted from an active duty base to reserve status in 1996. The Joint Powers Authority (JPA) was formed in the 1990s as part of a round of Base Realignment (BRAC). The JPA is composed of representatives from the County of Riverside and the cities of Moreno Valley, Perris and Riverside. The JPA oversees all of the redevelopment of the March ARB.

TOTAL BUILD OUTAt total build out, the development will include a hospital, medical office buildings, retail, skilled nursing facilities, a continuing care community, wellness centers and healing gardens, spiritual healing facilities, and ambulatory care facilities.

BED & PHYSICIAN SHORTAGERiverside County not only has the lowest ratio of beds per population of large California counties, but also lacks nearly 3,000 physicians and associated allied service professionals. Of the 719 Riverside County residents hospitalized daily, 362 leave the area for treatment.

HIGH UNEMPLOYMENTRiverside County has one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation, currently in excess of 15%.

BRINGING JOBS TO WESTERN RIVERSIDE COUNTYThis project is expected to immediately create over 5,000 construction jobs in Phase 1. Overall, the project is expected to create 12,700 construction jobs and 7,200 full-time healthcare and related jobs. Currently construction workers leave the area to seek employment; this project will allow those workers to remain employed near their area of residence.

SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS DESIGNThe entire campus will be LEED accredited and designed, respecting and enhancing sustainable principles and the current technology. In the medical arena, the campus design will

HOSPITAL / PHYSICIANS ALLIANCESThe main hospital in phase one will begin with

200 beds, eventually expanding to 550 beds, and

will be built in the model of an accountable care

organization. In June, March HealthCare

Development announced an exclusive relationship

between Catholic Healthcare West, St. Bernardine

Medical Center, Riverside Medical Clinic, and

March HealthCare Development for the purpose of

defining a new integrated health care delivery

system on the March LifeCare campus.

provide a means to deliver integrated care to patients, as it will employ an integrated medical center approach and use Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The campus’ patient-centered design, as opposed to a diagnosis-centered design, will create an environment where patients are seen as whole individuals and their care fully coordinated utilizing an EMR platform.

ACCOUNTABLE CARECatholic Healthcare West, St. Bernardine Medical Center and Riverside Medical Clinic will focus on the development of an Accountable Healthcare Organization (ACO) that will include other key hospitals, physician groups and Independent Practice Associations (IPA). This delivery system will provide access to high quality, cost-effective care.

PROJECT PARTNERSInvestors: March HealthCare Development investors are led by Donald N. Ecker, a proven community leader for 40 years, who created the vision and selected the team developing America’s most unique health and wellness city. MHD investors are 100% accredited individuals, who deeply believe in the March LifeCare vision. Each investor has grown a successful business in California, sold it, and, instead of leaving California, chose to reinvest in the Golden State.

Master Construction Manager: In January 2010 McCarthy Building Companies was named 2009 California Contractor the Year by California Construction magazine as well as named winner of the Healthcare/Outstanding Project Management and Restoration/Renovation. The McCarthy team is lead by Steven Mynsberge, Executive Vice President, Healthcare Services, who has 30 years experience in construction and has served on the OSHPD Hospital Building Safety Board.

Architects: HOK is the largest architectural design firm in the United States. As one of the most LEED-centric firms in the world, HOK was selected the top green design firm in 2008 and 2009. Its Western Region healthcare practice is led by Alicia Wachtel, who leads MHD’s global design team of hospital designers, healthcare thought leaders, landscape architects, and urban planners.

The VisionThe 6 million square foot campus will

include: a hospital, medical office buildings, medical retail, continuing care community from independent and congregate care to hospice, education and research facilities, a hotel and healing institute that will focus on wellness, eastern and western medicine, and holistic care.

EDUCATION / RESEARCH / TRAININGMarch LifeCare Centers of Excellence will include a women’s center, orthopedic, neurology and cancer

centers as well as dialysis and veterans’ institutes. A Cardiac Center, building on the developing

relationship with Catholic Healthcare West and St. Bernardine Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular

Institute, will also be a part of the campus. Educational partners include California Baptist University,

Moreno Valley College, and the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.


CONTINUING CARE COMMUNITYFrom independent and congregate care to hospice, the March LifeCare community will also include

one of the only high quality skilled-nursing facilities in the region. The campus will provide seniors with opportunities to continue an active, rich and productive life through a constantly expanding program of health education, recreation, social activities and high quality health care.

RETAIL VILLAGEMarch LifeCare is designing a community that will be a destination not only for healing, but a place

where social and cultural activities thrive. Plans for the medical city include retail shops, restaurants,

theaters, and other performance spaces embedded into the architectural design.


HEALING INSTITUTE — THE HEART & SOUL OF THE CAMPUSThe heart of the campus will be the Healing Institute, a place where the physical aspects of healing meet

the spiritual. With grieving and wellness centers employing both eastern and western approaches to healing,

as well as the integration of the arts in spaces designed for the well being of body, soul and mind, this will

truly be a place where healing starts. The Healing Institute will also include lodging accommodations for

families, guests, patients, veterans, and the campus community.


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St. Bernardine Medical Center, A Vision of Excellence Achieved

IN OCTOBER 1931, then governor of California

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The architects of this dream of bringing

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Dr. Philip Savage, a respected local surgeon who

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responsive service, compassion and excellence.

St. Bernardine Medical Center, CHW and Riverside

Medical Clinic are currently in the planning stages

with March HealthCare Development, the developer

of the March LifeCare campus, to create a

collaborative partnership that will expand the St.

Bernardine founders’ vision into Riverside County.

“By aligning the incentives of hospitals and

physicians in this manner, we will bring needed

quality health care services to this fast growing

region and put the County at the forefront of health

care reform,” concludes Steve Barron, President of

St. Bernardine Medical Center.

Dr. Philip Savage, founder of St. Bernardine Hospital


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ON SITE


DECONSTRUCT to construct. Before vertical construction can take place on the March LifeCare campus making way for a new innovative approach to healthcare, the old must be razed.

In early June 2010 McCarthy Building Companies, the master construction manager for the March LifeCare campus, held a bidder’s tour for companies interested in bidding on the demolition of 22 buildings on the current site.

According to Mike Tuohy, Project Director for McCarthy Building Companies, phase one includes the scheduled demolition of eight buildings, six more will come down in October, two in December, and the rest will be razed in January.

US Demolition, a privately-held company

based in Anaheim, won the contract. Established in 1999, US Demolition specializes in demolition, wrecking and site preparation.

US Demolition Project Manager Duane Pate, who was the site manager for the demolition ceremony that featured two heavy duty Link Belt machines, answered three questions on the demolition process for the March LifeCare campus.

Question: How many buildings will be demolished and what method will you be using?

Answer: Twenty-two buildings will be coming down using controlled mechanical demolition

Three Questions with US Demolition

Mike Tuohy

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excavators, the machines we used during the demolition ceremony featuring the governor.

Q: How long will the process take and what will happen with the materials?

A: Our demolition schedule began at the end of August and will end in January 2011. During that time we anticipate over 66,000 tons of material from the demo. What is great is that almost everything will be recycled — up to 87 percent of materials including: concrete, asphalt, steel and copper. Only trash, which is mostly drywall that cannot be recycled, will be dumped.

Q: What is the economic impact of this project for your company?

A: This job is helping us out in a big way. We will be employing 45-60 people during the 5½ months of demolition.

PHOTO BY TED NE VILLSA banner unveiled during the demolition ceremony signals the start of rebirth of the currently blighted site.

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“Life support is the last thing you want your IT systems to be on.”

“The costs for technology healthcare do not need to continue to soar while quality and access suffer.”

“Acorn Technology---your Doctor of IT.”

The Inland Empire’s only Tier 3+ Data Center

www.acorntechcorp.com

Proud to prov ide IT serv ices for the March L i feCare Campus


ground breaking & deMoLiTion


1. March JPA Commissioners Mike Gardner, Mark Yarbrough, Andy Melendrez, MHD Founder Don Ecker, Congressman Ken Calvert, and March JPA Commissioners Richard Stewart, Marion Ashley, Darryl Busch, William Batey2. Virginia Blumenthal, Chancellor Gregory Gray, Janet Green3. Nick Goldware and Mike Vanderpool4. Dr. Steve Larson, Lynn Lee, Don Ecker, Hardy Brown, Jordan Brown, Dr. Monte Perez5. Richard Stewart, Don Ecker, George Price, Joel Ayala6. Alicia Wachtel, Don Ecker, Mike Tuohy, Judy Carpenter, Cheryl Brown

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the mission inn

1. Christina Bivona-Tellez, Phil Dalton, Dr. Andrew Robertson, Janet Sue Hutchins-Robertson2. Dr. Bakhtiar Ahmed, Dr. George Villanueva, Don Ecker, Louis Stewart3. Amy Harrison, Jamil Dada, Moreno Valley Mayor Bonnie Flickinger4. Tommy Brisco, Mike Tuohy5. Col. Karl McGregor, Lori Stone

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SIGNING & cloSING partIeS

1. Dr. and Mrs. George Ponce2. Joe Deldone, John Tavaglione, Don Ecker, Bob Lancaster3. John and Connie Wahlin, Don Ecker, Kathy Hartman4. Steve Caiozzo, Don Ecker5. Dave Feltch, Dr. Kris Raju6. Steve and Sue Tomassi7. Don Ecker, Dianne Ecker, Jacques Yeager8. Steve and Janyce Barron

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NEWSMarch LifeCare Announces PartnershipsCatholic Healthcare West (CHW) and St. Bernardine Medical Center (SBMC) enter into exclusive relationship with Riverside Medical Clinic (RMC) and March Healthcare Development (MHD) for the purpose of defining a new integrated health care delivery system

on the March LifeCare campus.

Moreno Valley Physicians Welcomed to March The Moreno Valley Physicians Group, led by Dr. Bakhtiar Ahmad, joins the growing number of organizations that will collaborate to develop an innovative health care delivery model to enable coordinated physicians and hospital care that meets health care

reform goals.

Governor Schwarzenegger Identifies March LifeCare as “Innovation @ Work”Louis Stewart, Deputy Director of Innovation and Emerging Technologies with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GoED) announces that March Healthcare Development’s ‘Health and Wellness City’ - March LifeCare - is an example of California’s

“Innovation @ Work.”

Acorn Technology Corporation Joins March LifeCare March Healthcare Development (MHD) and Acorn Technology Corporation (ATC) announce the creation of March LifeCare Communications, a joint venture to install and operate the Information Technology infrastructure of March LifeCare. With the creation of MLC Communications, MHD and ATC

intend to assure that a complete array of IT services are available “day one” to all member institutions on

the campus.

Medical Development Specialists Named March LifeCare Consultant Medical Development Specialists (MDS Consulting) is named as consultant for the development of the Program

and Services Plan for March LifeCare.

Assemblyman Cook Supports Veteran’s Services at MarchLifeCare Assemblyman Paul Cook, California 65Th Assembly District, and Chair of the Assembly’s Veteran’s Affairs Committee announces his support of March LifeCare’s mission to support Veteran’s healthcare

services on the campus.

March LifeCare to House Child Care Center March LifeCare will house an onsite child care center for the March LifeCare community developed and managed by Amy S. Harrison, CEO, Altus-Innovative Solutions for Youth, Inc. and former chair of the UCR

Foundation Board of Trustees.

Strategic Connections, Inc. Joins March LifeCare March Healthcare Development (MHD), developer of March LifeCare-America’s first “health and wellness” city, announces alliance with Corona-based Strategic Connections, Inc. (SCI) which has assisted clients throughout Southern California for nearly a decade in addressing utility challenges and opportunities. SCI professionals have over 300 years

of combined utility experience.

PEOPLEPhil Dalton, MHD partner and Director of Hospital and Physician Ventures, guest authored an article “Winning in the New World of Health Care Reform Tools & Strategies to Align Hospitals and Physicians” in the Hospital Association of Southern California (HASC’s) August 20, 2010 newsletter.

MHD partner, Vasken Kassarjian, named Director of Medical Retail for the March LifeCare campus.

Advisory Board member Jamil Dada appointed to chair California’s Workforce Investment Board.

Robert “Bob” Lancaster, MLC Advisory Board member, named March HealthCare Development’s Director of Business Development

University of California, Riverside Professor of Theater and MLC Director of Arts & Healing, Rickerby Hinds, will be honored in October with the UCR Alumni Distinguished Service Award. Hinds and Douglas Ayres, VP of Development Ayres Hotels, named co-directors of MLC’s Healing Institute.

MLC project partner and Moreno Valley College President Dr. Monte Perez has been appointed to the US Department of Labor Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship.

March LifeCare Media Chair Paulette Brown-Hinds was awarded the 2010 African-American Press award by the California Black Chamber of Commerce for her work with the California Black Media. Dr. Brown-Hinds was also appointed to the March Air Museum Board of Directors.

Life and Care

People & News


In June 1944 the founders of Riverside Medical Clinic (RMC) returned to March Field after serving in World War II, having left partner Dr. Hobart Kelly to run the clinic they founded together to serve the people of greater Riverside. Riverside

Medical Clinic began in 1935 when Drs. Philip Corr and Ray McCarty established a practice patterned after the Mayo Clinic. Three years later they were joined by Drs. Hobart Kelly, Richard Boylan and e. Danford Quick, all from Mayo. Their model, like Mayo, joins primary and specialty physicians. It is a model and commitment to service that has allowed them to maintain their dominance in Riverside County and in the country’s ever changing healthcare landscape.

With over 120 physicians, 700 staff, and a 75 year history of providing the highest standard

of care to their patients and community, the Riverside Medical Clinic continues to anticipate and prepare for the current changes in the healthcare marketplace. As part of the planning team of the March LifeCare campus, Dr. Steven Larson, the current Chairman & CeO of the clinic, sees the March LifeCare project as an opportunity to create a sustainable healthcare delivery system with a unique vision of shared governance between the hospital partner and physician groups.

earlier this year, Dr. Larson joined Steve Barron, President of St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino in announcing a plan to develop an integrated healthcare system. “We see this as an opportunity to plan and develop an integrated delivery system that under health care reform will be an integral piece of the overarching strategy for the future,” Dr. Larson says.

looking back

75 Years and Preparing for the Future

Four of the five founders of Riverside Medical Clinic at March Field: Drs. Corr, McCarty, Boylan and Quick in 1944


Generations of Care forthe Generations to Come

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We’l l t reat you r ight

The vision for the future of healthcare in the greater Riversidearea was declared 75 years ago when two physicians startedRiverside Medical Clinic in the Mission Inn Rotunda.

Today, over 120 Riverside Medical Clinic physicians supported by a staff of over 700 deliver the highest standardof healthcare and continue to have a vision of excellence and service to our patients and the community for the next 75 years.

To select a Riverside Medical Clinic doctor, call us at (951) 683-6370

www.RiversideMedicalClinic.com

Three generations of the Gless Family


march lifecare magazine summer 2010

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