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Anna Roth CEO

Greetings from Tahoe Forest Health System!

True North 2030: Thank You for Helping Shape Our Future

Earlier this year, we asked our community to help us think about the future of healthcare in our region. You showed up in a big way.

Through our 5,000K Voices outreach, we heard from residents, patients, second homeowners, community partners and staff, gathering more than 6,500 individual points of feedback over six months.

What we heard helped shape True North 2030, Tahoe Forest Health System’s strategic plan and our shared direction for the future.

True North is built around three aims:

  1. Health Within Reach: Access, choice, lower cost & convenience
  2. Community Guided: Sustain world-class care shaped by community
  3. Transformation: Accountability, alignment and stronger governance

As we move from planning into implementation, we want to close the loop with the community that helped shape this work.

These three aims give us a clear direction for where we are headed and where we need to focus. They will guide our priorities and decisions as we work to meet the changing needs of the communities we serve.

Just as importantly, we will keep listening. Our community helped us build True North, and your input will continue to be important as we put this plan into action.

I invite you to explore our full strategic plan, learn more about the work behind each of our three aims and continue sharing your input with us.

Explore True North 2030

Thank you to everyone who participated in 5,000K Voices and helped us get here. I look forward to continuing this work together.

Warmly,
Anna M. Roth, RN, MS, MPH
President & CEO

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Celebration of North Shore Clinic Opening

What a wonderful day celebrating the opening of Tahoe Forest Health System’s new North Shore Clinic in Tahoe City! With this opening, all Primary Care appointments in Tahoe City will take place at the new North Shore Clinic.

Thank you to everyone in our community who joined us for this special ribbon-cutting last month and helped make the day so memorable. We’re excited to open the doors to this new space and continue providing high-quality care close to home for our North Tahoe community.

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Anna Roth speaks at the North Shore clinic opening
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Kind Words

“The team in Incline Village is exceptional. Attentive and easy to work with. My therapy clinicians, Eric and Brian, provide great care and are advancing me quickly with both a clinical and home exercise program.”

Incline Village Hospital Physical Therapy

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Protect Yourself and Others This Flu Season

Flu season is approaching, and getting your annual flu vaccine is one of the best ways to protect yourself and those around you. Influenza can lead to serious illness, hospitalization and complications, particularly for older adults, young children, pregnant people and those with certain health conditions. The flu vaccine can reduce your risk of getting sick and, if you do get the flu, can help reduce the severity of illness.

Because flu viruses change over time and vaccine protection decreases, we recommend a flu vaccine every year. It takes about two weeks for your body to develop protection after vaccination, so now is a good time to make getting your flu shot part of your fall health routine.

Tahoe Forest Health System offers flu vaccination options in the Truckee and Incline Village communities. Visit our website for flu shot clinics, current locations, hours and cost information.

Hi everyone. I’m Dr. Brian Evans, the chief medical officer here at Tahoe Forest Health System. And we’re talking today about influenza, which you know, it really never goes away completely, but every winter we start to really think much more about influenza. It makes its rounds. Most of the time influenza is what we consider to be pretty mild. And so sometimes we get, you know, lulled into a little bit of a false sense of complacency.

Unfortunately, influenza can actually be quite serious in some individuals and people die of influenza every single year. It’s particularly worrisome in the very young, the very old and people with comorbid conditions like lung disease, COPD, emphyzema or heart disease or diabetes. Significant medical problems that put them at higher risk of the influenza infection actually just getting much worse. The best approach to really protect yourself is with vaccination.

Each year we get new updated vaccinations that protect us against influenza. You cannot expect the influenza vaccine to necessarily prevent all cases of infection in all patients, but you can expect that it’ll generally make a infection from influenza more mild and less likely to end up with complications such as pneumonia and certainly make it less likely to die from influenza.

It also makes it less likely to give influenza infections to other members of the community. So that can be very important in protecting the more vulnerable in our community. You know, I would recommend that you take precautions in other ways beyond vaccination. Certainly washing your hands, making sure that you do that when you’ve been out in public. Try to not touch your face if you’ve, you know, been touching other things with your hands.

If you cough, make sure you cover that cough. And if you’re sick, stay home if you possibly can. Watch out for warning signs from influenza which could signal that things are getting worse such as shortness of breath, chest pain, very high fevers, certainly mental status changes like confusion. Those kinds of things would make us very concerned and those those patients need to get checked out by us in the emergency department quickly.

Flu does peak in the winter. You can see it early fall and you can actually see it uh kind of getting into spring as well, but winter is the time we really see a lot of influenza cases. So protect yourself, protect your family with a flu shot every year. Take the daily precautions we talked about and look out for the warning signs. We’re here if you need us. Stay safe out there.

Aerial view of the services located at the Sierra Center facility

Making It Easier To Access Care

Tahoe Forest Health System’s new Sierra Center (former Rite Aid on Donner Pass Road, Truckee) is opening in Truckee, bringing expanded access to care and services under one roof.

Beginning October 26, 2026, the following services will relocate to the new center:

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Wellness
  • Pharmacy
  • Occupational Health
  • Lab Services
  • Urgent Care

Pharmacy notice: The pharmacy will be closed on October 25 as it moves to the new location and will reopen at the Sierra Center on October 26. We look forward to welcoming you to the new Sierra Center!

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Upcoming Health & Wellness Events

Tahoe Forest Cooking Club

Ready to shake up your lunch routine? Each month, Registered Dietitian Lisa Fligor, MS, RDN, serves up a fun, interactive cooking demo packed with simple tips, tasty ideas and practical inspiration. Plus, you’ll get to taste-test what we make and take home the recipes!

Say goodbye to sad desk lunches! Learn how to build balanced, flavorful meals that keep you energized and satisfied all day. We’ll share easy recipes, simple prep tips and smart strategies for lunches that work for school, work or wherever the day takes you.

When: September 28 from 5 to 6:30 pm
Cost: $30
Location: Tahoe Forest Wellness

Prevent T2 – Diabetes Prevention Program

1 out of 3 American adults has prediabetes. If you have prediabetes, you can make changes now to improve your health and PREVENT type 2 diabetes. The Prevent T2 lifestyle change program can help you lose weight, become more physically active, and reduce stress.

With Prevent T2, you get:

  • A proven program to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes
  • A CDC-approved curriculum and trained lifestyle coach
  • A year-long program with weekly meetings for the first 6 months, then once or twice a month for the second 6 months
  • Support from others like you as you learn new skills

When: October 5 to September 20, 4 to 5:15 PM
Cost: FREE
Location: Tahoe Forest Wellness

Call Tahoe Forest Wellness to schedule your program at (530) 587-3769.