Seneca Healthcare District

11/21/2025

✨ Thank you to Seneca Healthcare Foundation Board Member, Tracey Smith for supporting our "Buy a Beam" initiative! 🏗

Tracey signed on behalf of her and her husband, Steve. Their signature now stands proudly as a testament to her ongoing commitment to supporting healthcare in the Lake Almanor Basin. Thank you, Tracey and Steve!

Want to show your support? Visit: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam/

11/21/2025

Seneca Healthcare District was honored to host Assemblymember Heather Hadwick for a tour of the new Lake Almanor Community Hospital this week! Her visit proved to be warm and engaging, highlighting the shared values of strength, spirit, and resilience within the Lake Almanor community; qualities that truly define rural communities like ours.

Her genuine interest in our progress—and in the people we serve—means so much to our team and our community.



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Seneca Healthcare District (SHD) was honored to host Assemblymember Heather Hadwick for a tour of the coming Lake Almanor Community Hospital on Tuesday, November 18th. Her visit proved to be warm and engaging, highlighting the shared values of strength, spirit, and resilience within the Lake Almanor...

11/20/2025

✨ Thank you to Jody & Rick Schlobohm for supporting Seneca Healthcare Foundation's "Buy a Beam" initiative! 🏗

They chose a beam in what will be Acute Care. Their message of hope and support will now forever live on within the walls of the new hospital. Thank you, Jody and Rick for being pillars of our community and showing support where it matters most! 💙

Want your own beam to sign? Visit: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam/

11/20/2025

On National Rural Health Day, we honor the spirit of rural living — where care runs deep, people look out for one another, and community is at the heart of everything we do. Rural health means care that’s personal, connected, and close to home. 💚

Seneca Healthcare District includes the Lake Almanor Clinic and Seneca Hospital, conveniently located in the heart of Chester, CA serving the Lake Almanor Basin for over 70 years.

The Lake Almanor Clinic has several providers accepting new patients now! Call 1(833)227-3743 or visit at 199 Reynolds Road, Chester, CA 96020.

11/19/2025

✨ Seneca Healthcare Foundation thanks Jeff and Dianne Benedictson for supporting our "Buy a Beam" initiative! 🏗

Jeff and Dianne chose a beam in the center of the Long-Term Care facility, forever memorializing their commitment to healthcare for generations to come. Their support serves as a reminder that this hospital is being built by the community, for the community! Thank you, Jeff and Dianne! 💙

Want to show your support? Buy a beam here: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam/

11/18/2025

✨ Thank you, Wes & Jane Scott, for supporting Seneca Healthcare Foundation's "Buy a Beam" initiative! 🏗

By supporting the Foundation and signing their beam, Wes and Jane celebrated the spirit of unity behind the new build, showing that this hospital is being built through the collective strength of the community. Thank you to the Scotts! 💙

Want to show your support? Buy a beam here: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam

11/18/2025

✨ Thank you, Karyn Merriman, for supporting Seneca Healthcare Foundation's "Buy a Beam" initiative! 🏗

Karyn's support is a meaningful reminder that this work is a communal effort—neighbors joining neighbors to bring a hospital to life for the well-being of generations to come.

Thank you, Karyn! 💙

Want to show your support? Buy a beam: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam/

11/15/2025

✨A heartfelt thank-you to Dan Blair for supporting Seneca Healthcare Foundation's "Buy a Beam" initiative! 🏗

Dan signed a core brace near the Emergency Room entrance, memorializing his support in a place that will soon welcome patients in moments of need and healing. 🏥

His support is a powerful reminder that we’re not just constructing walls and beams—we’re building a hospital together, as a community rooted in care, compassion, and a shared vision for a healthier future for all.

Thank you, Dan, for helping lay the foundation for something truly special! 💙

For information on how to buy a beam, visit: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam/

11/14/2025

❄It's that time of the year! 🎄

This holiday season, help us fill our long-term care department with Christmas cards for our residents! Our residents cherish receiving cards and letters from the community. It’s a simple gesture that brings warmth and connection to every bedside.

We invite everyone — individuals, families, classrooms, community groups, and workplaces — to take part in our Christmas Card Collection for Long-Term Care Residents.

💌 How to take part:
Write a Christmas card with a heartfelt message of joy or encouragement.
Drop off: 317 Main Street, Chester, CA 96020
Mail to: PO Box 737, Chester, CA 96020

Let’s come together to make sure every resident feels the joy of the season. 🎅🎁

11/14/2025

✨Thank you to our very own Dr. Thomas Greely & Cliff Fahey for supporting Seneca Healthcare Foundation's 'Buy a Beam' initiative! 🏗

They chose a beam right at the front entrance of the new hospital to wish "good health to all who enter"! 💙

Their generosity is a wonderful reminder that our community is truly building this hospital together—each contribution, signature, and message of support becoming part of the strong foundation that will serve generations to come.

Thank you, Tom & Cliff!

For information on how to buy a beam, visit: https://senecahospital.org/donate/buyabeam/

11/13/2025

Happy World Kindness Day 🌍💙

Kindness is most powerful when it moves us to action. This World Kindness Day, we’re inviting you to turn a caring thought into something tangible—into support for a family in crisis, into hope for someone fighting for their health. Your donation helps transform compassion into care.

Today, choose to be part of someone’s healing story, where it's needed most. Donate to Seneca Healthcare Foundation: https://senecahospital.org/donate/

11/13/2025

An update from PG&E, a partner to Seneca Healthcare Foundation:
Incoming Storm – Outage Resources / Restoration Steps

PG&E is staffed with electric and vegetation crews ready to respond to any outages created by the incoming storm. Our forecast models are calling for moderate outage activity in the north valley, including the Butte, Lassen, and Plumas area.

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PG&E, a partner to Seneca Healthcare Foundation, is staffed up with electric and vegetation crews ready to respond to outages created by the incoming storm. Our forecast models are calling for moderate outage activity in the north valley, including the Butte, Lassen, and Plumas area.