Founded more than 30 years ago, Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. The company has multiple products on the market for serious or life-threatening medical conditions. In March 2009, Genentech became a member of the Roche Group, and Genentech now serves as the headquarters for all Roche pharmaceutical operations in the United States. Genentech's development pipeline continues to grow, with multiple promising projects in the following therapeutic focus areas: oncology, immunology, disorders of tissue growth and repair, and neuroscience. The pipeline includes both breakthrough innovations and new indications for existing, well-understood products that may fight more than one disease or more than one form of a disease.



50 years ago, few could have imagined the rural flower fields and avocado orchards of Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Vista would grow into the major population and commerce centers they are today. From its beginnings, Tri-City Medical Center has mirrored that growth. 2011 is Tri-City’s 50th anniversary of providing world-class healthcare to the citizens of North San Diego County. Tri-City is a nationally recognized hospital with a world-renowned medical and professional staff, state-of-the art technology, and award-winning, compassionate patient care.

Tri-City Medical Center begins the next 50 years with major enhancements. The Cardiovascular Health Institute is open and providing the most advanced heart care available from comprehensive heart risk screenings to ‘beating heart’ surgery. The Orthopedic and Cancer Institutes will open in 2011. The hospital has received numerous national and regional accreditations. Tri-City is a Joint Commission Accredited Hospital meeting the highest national standards for healthcare quality. It is the first nationally accredited Chest Pain Center in San Diego County and is a San Diego County Designated Heart Attack (STEMI) Receiving Center. It has received the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers and the Gold “Plus” Award for Stroke Care from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.

Tri-City is home to nationally certified Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Centers accredited by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The American College of Radiology awarded national certification to the radiology center. And, the clinical laboratory is accredited by the College of American Pathologists.

In 2008, the hospital opened the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine with certified physicians, nurses, and technicians. The medical director is the only nationally certified wound specialist in San Diego County and one of only three statewide. In 2010, the Center was named Wound Care Facility of the Year.

Tri-City offers a wide array of quality services ranging from maternity and advanced neonatal care, (the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the largest in North County and the only NICU with a board-certified neonatologist on duty around the clock), to orthopedics, neurology, and advanced interventional radiology with state-of-the-art imaging equipment like the 64-Slice Lightspeed CT Scanner. In total, Tri-City has physicians representing 60 specialties and sub-specialties.

One of the most exciting recent technological additions is the CyberKnife – a
revolutionary radiosurgery system that lets doctors treat tumors anywhere in the body, even those once characterized as inoperable.

In 2009, Tri-City began a bedside bar-coding initiative, which has been shown to reduce medication errors by more than 80%.

Tri-City has the second busiest emergency room in the county treating about 70,000 residents annually. It remains at the forefront in planning for regional disaster response and in recent disasters served as a community medical receiving center for ill and injured patients.

Tri-City’s mission is to advance the health and wellness of those it serves. The two-year-old Tri-City Wellness Center in Carlsbad approaches health and fitness from a medical perspective. The 58,000 sq. ft. facility offers a complete array of health and fitness programs and has been named the best gym in San Diego County two years running on the 10News.com A*List. On the same campus in Carlsbad, the Medical Office Building is now open housing the second location of Occupational Medicine and the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine. Tri-City has two locations for Occupational Medicine because the hospital understands a healthy workforce is necessary to achieve a healthy bottom line.

Trust the caring hands of Tri-City Medical Center for comprehensive, advanced medicine close to home.

Learn more by visiting us at www.tricitymed.org.


Many trace discount retailing´s birth to 1962, the first year of operation for Kmart, Target and Wal-Mart. But by that time, Sam Walton´s tiny chain of variety stores in Arkansas and Kansas was already facing competition from regional discount chains. Sam traveled the country to study this radical, new retailing concept and was convinced it was the wave of the future. He and his wife, Helen, put up 95 percent of the money for the first Wal-Mart store in Rogers, Arkansas, borrowing heavily on Sam´s vision that the American consumer was shifting to a different type of general store.

Today, Sam´s gamble is a global company with more than 1.8 million associates worldwide and nearly 6,500 stores and wholesale clubs across 15 countries.


Waste Management, Inc. is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. The company is strongly committed to a foundation of financial strength, operating excellence and professionalism.

Waste Management tailors its services to meet the needs of each customer group and to ensure consistent, superior service at the local level. Headquartered in Houston, the company's network of operations includes 413 collection operations, 370 transfer stations, 283 active landfill disposal sites, 17 waste-to-energy plants, 131 recycling plants, 95 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and 6 independent power production plants. These assets enable Waste Management to offer a full range of environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers.

Serving the communities in this area since 1886, the North County Times provides North San Diego and Southwest Riverside counties the most complete daily local news coverage anywhere.

The North County Times produces three locally zoned news editions every day from its offices in Oceanside, Escondido and Temecula. Our reporters and photographers bring our readers complete coverage of local news.

The NCT focuses on local stories and features that are important and meaningful to readers ... from community and civic events, local business and government issues to prep football scores, club activities and entertainment listings.
In-depth local news is complemented by regional, state, national and global reports.

Regularly honored by the newspaper industry for outstanding journalism, the NCT continues to expand its news reports with innovative and interactive multimedia formats.
To find out what's happening in your community, read the award-winning North County Times ---every day in print and 24/7 online at nctimes.com.
 

The Super Dentists are specialists in pediatric dentistry and orthodontist in one practice located in three locations in San Diego County. We offer the latest in teeth whitening and three ways to go invisible with braces; such as nearly invisible with In-Ovation, almost invisible with Invisalign and Invisalign Teen and completely invisible with Incognito that are placed on the backside of your teeth. We also have laser dentistry and the Wand which is perfect for kids to help prevent cavities.

The Super Dentists love to help educate their patients about the importance of a healthy smile. Explore our website www.TheSuperDentists.com, LIKE us on Facebook or JOIN us on Youtube to watch our videos to see what makes us so super! To make your child’s first appointment with The Super Dentists and their team of professionals at any of their three locations (Oceanside, Chula Vista & EastLake), simply call (760) or (619) DENTIST (336-8478) today!

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