STATE OF ART HEARING DEVICE CENTER OPENS IN SANTA ROSA
California Ear Institute brings premier hearing-related services to Santa Rosa

SANTA ROSA, CA, NOVEMBER 26, 2007 – Leading provider of hearing-related services California Ear Institute at Santa Rosa opens hearing device center in December 2007, making available for the first time the best in hearing-impairment device technologies.  Expert Audiologist Christy Cooper, Au.D. will manage operations in the North Bay location.

Founded in 1968 as the first practice dedicated specifically to hearing healthcare, CEI has since provided over a quarter million visits to patients worldwide.  Surgeons and audiologists treat hearing and balance disorders with innovative modalities, including assistive and surgically implantable hearing devices and cochlear implants.

Effective January 1, 2008, California Assembly Bill 2651 requires all infants receive hearing screening tests before leaving the hospital, and will add an average of 120,000 infants to public record per year. CEI’s new center is uniquely qualified to treat the hearing-impaired percentage of this population.

CEI offices are located throughout the great Bay Area in East Palo Alto, San Ramon, and Santa Rosa. Each location is open five days a week.

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About CEI
The California Ear Institute is Northern California’s premier site for treatment of ear-related disorders and is highly ranked among the world’s Centers of Excellence.

Responsible for many of the currently utilized treatments and surgical procedures in Otology and Neurotology, the Institute offers the finest proven and emerging technologies to patients. Industry leading Physicians, Surgeons, and Audiologists of CEI continue to innovate, evaluate and deliver state of the art modalities

Palo Alto Office – (650) 494-1000
San Ramon Office – (925) 830-9116
Santa Rosa Office – (707) 528-0565
appointments@calear.com
www.californiaearinstitute.com

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Text from NIH Publication:
"One of the more groundbreaking biomedical achievements in the last thirty years is the cochlear implant, an electronic device that provides a sense of sound to individuals who are profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing. Cochlear implants process sounds from the environment and directly stimulate the auditory nerve, bypassing damaged portions of the inner ear. Derived in part from NIH-funded research that dates back to the early 1970s and continues today, this remarkable technology enables deaf and severely hard-of-hearing individuals to enjoy an enhanced quality of life by providing the ability to listen and participate in conversations as they typically occur throughout our society... "

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On July 10, 2006 the renowned California Ear Institute will open its doors in Santa Rosa. In association with Dr. Ted Olson, an ENT Physician well known to the local community, physicians and staff of the CEI will begin seeing patients. Patients will be welcomed through the doors at 196 Sotoyome Street.

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