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VMC Farmers’ Market Grand Opening May 15th

The VMC Foundation is pleased to announce the grand opening of its Farmers’ Market on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.  The market will open at 10 a.m.  A special ribbon-cutting event will occur at 11:30 a.m.  Normal hours will be 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. each Wednesday until November.  The [...]

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Too good not to share…

The VMC Foundation is proud to support all sorts of efforts to improve the health of Silicon Valley – the “Re-Think Your Drink” campaign, the forthcoming Farmer’s Market on our campus, the Pediatric Healthy Lifestyle Center… …and yet, we’re up against an enemy so powerful it often seems we cannot win. The video created by [...]

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For VMC, for our County: YES on Measure A.

It’s Friday, lunch-hour, and time for a little politics: No, not the Obama/Romney kind, but the local kind that will have a more immediate and direct impact on all of us who live in Santa Clara County. The sad fact is this: Our county has faced ten years IN A ROW of budget cuts, and [...]

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Winners of the Flu Shot Poetry Contest!

The judges have voted, and the votes are counted! Yes, the first-ever Flu Shot Poetry Contest winners are about to be announced, and we here at the VMC Foundation can hardly contain ourselves; we are just giddy with excitement. We know you are too, so let’s get right to it: We had tons of submissions [...]

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Flu shot poetry contest…let’s do this, people!

I got my shot this morning, and it hurt substantially less than the photo would indicate. In fact, I complained so much I didn’t notice anything until they told me to vacate the chair. I then thought about poetry, which I’m told is NOT a side-effect of the vaccine. Not getting the flu is, though, [...]

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