http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/MoneyTalks/26564 It seems obvious in retrospect: If you want to treat patients locally (and keep Kern County health-care expenditures in Kern County), it helps if local practitioners know who each other are. But it's the obvious things that often elude us. No longer. On Wednesday, Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center is hosting a networking dinner to kick off a get-to-know-you effort being headed up by Kern Economic Development Corp. The free event is to run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the center, 6501 Truxtun Ave. Scheduled to make presentations are KEDC President and CEO Richard Chapman; the center's business developer, Gitesh Patel; Trevor Townsend, co-manager of the Valley Institute of Prosthetics & Orthotics; Mike Bartell, vice president of marketing and business development at Bakersfield Heart Hospital; and Houchin Blood Bank's community relations manager, Tracy Hunter. It seems obvious in retrospect: If you want to treat patients locally (and keep Kern County health-care expenditures in Kern County), it helps if local practitioners know who each other are. But it's the obvious things that often elude us. No longer. On Wednesday, Comprehensive Blood & Cancer Center is hosting a networking dinner to kick off a get-to-know-you effort being headed up by Kern Economic Development Corp. The free event is to run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the center, 6501 Truxtun Ave. Scheduled to make presentations are KEDC President and CEO Richard Chapman; the center's business developer, Gitesh Patel; Trevor Townsend, co-manager of the Valley Institute of Prosthetics & Orthotics; Mike Bartell, vice president of marketing and business development at Bakersfield Heart Hospital; and Houchin Blood Bank's community relations manager, Tracy Hunter. en-us