Lassen County Public Health announced on March 4th, that the agency will be limiting case investigation and contact tracing to the general population in order to shift their efforts and priorities to high-risk individuals or settings. According to the brief press release Public Health will...

In an ongoing effort to ensure patient safety and to minimize the spread of COVID-19 the California Department of Public Health has issued an order on visitor limitations at Acute Care Hospitals. Banner Lassen Medical Center has announced that they will be requiring all...

Lassen County Public Health is reporting a rise in the number of positive COVID-19 cases here in the county and that, as a result of this rise, the Emergency Room at Banner Lassen Medical Center has a larger than normal number of unvaccinated patients...

Anyone visiting a hospitalized individual at Banner Lassen Medical Center in Susanville now must provide proof of vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test in the last 72 hours prior to entering the facility. This news follows the California Department of Public Health’s...

As of September 1st, at 7:00a.m., here are COVID-19 statistics being reported by local health officials. Lassen County's Public Health Department is reporting 155-active cases in the county with 7 people currently hospitalized. Twenty-five deaths have now been attributed to the infection and so far...

Lassen Community College has resumed in-person classes for the fall semester and, with the rise of COVID cases in our area, the college's administration is reassuring students that the LCC campus is safe. Here are a few things the college is asking students to keep...

Banner Lassen has clarified that these new precautions include hospital visitors, but not those seeking care at the Lassen Medical Center. Effective immediately, anyone who is visiting a hospitalized individual at the Lassen Medical Center in Susanville must provide proof of vaccination or proof of...

Updated August, 12th Banner Lassen has clarified that these new precautions include hospital visitors, but not those seeking care at the Lassen Medical Center. Effective immediately, anyone who is visiting a hospitalized individual at the Lassen Medical Center in Susanville must provide proof of vaccination or...

The Lassen County Public Health Department has announced that our county is now in the “minimal” spread or least restrictive yellow-tier of the California Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Lassen County is one of only three counties in this category, joining both Alpine and Sierra...

As of March 8th, at 5:00a.m., here are COVID-19 statistics being reported by local health officials. Lassen County's Public Health Department is reporting only 7 active cases in the county with nobody currently hospitalized. Twenty-two deaths have now been attributed to the infection and so...

Lassen County’s Public Health Department, citing a list of issues and grievances, has cut ties with the company that had been providing COVID-19 testing and switched to an alternate provider effective immediately. The new testing schedule will be Tuesday, from 9:00 until 11:00a.m., Wednesday from...