Welcome

As Interim DIO at Community Memorial Healthcare, I invite you to explore our training opportunities in Family Medicine, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Psychiatry. Our programs, based in a community hospital setting, are built around a philosophy of providing excellent care and are supported by faculty dedicated to teaching the next generation of physicians. Our passionate faculty work collaboratively to provide structured didactics and hands-on teaching with a low resident to faculty ratio to create an excellent learning environment and train well-rounded physicians.

We are looking for physicians interested in a distinctive opportunity to train to become leaders in providing exceptional care within their communities. We look forward to hearing from you.

Debby Carlson, MD, FACP
Interim Designated Institutional Officer
Chief Medical Officer

About Community Memorial Healthcare

Community Memorial Healthcare is the oldest, nonprofit, hospital-based health system in Ventura County, California. Our history began more than a century ago with roots that reach deep into our community. Through the benevolence of Cephas L. Bard, a gifted country doctor, and his brother, Thomas R. Bard, a United States Senator, the county’s first 12‑bed hospital opened in 1902 and was named the Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital in honor of their beloved mother.

Today, that original hospital has been transformed. Our thriving health system includes two hospitals, a 75-bed skilled nursing facility, fifteen ambulatory health centers, four academic medicine health centers, and four urgent care centers. The city of Ventura is located 63 miles northwest of Los Angeles and 30 miles south of Santa Barbara. Our warm Mediterranean climate and wonderful quality of life are a few of the reasons many call Ventura home. Guiding us on our mission to heal, comfort, and promote health in the communities we serve is a diverse volunteer Board of Trustees that represents a cross section of community leaders.

We are committed to providing each of our residents and fellows a comprehensive training experience that allows them to attain their personal career objectives. The combination of a diverse patient population and an outstanding faculty and staff provides residents in our program with a rich and diverse educational experience.