Originally published in San Fransisco Business Times. By Chris Rauber January 22, 2015 Thursday was a great day for East Bay philanthropy, with an Oakland school district and two Alameda County health care entities nabbing a total of $22.2 million in grants. The Oakland Unified School District and the Alameda Health Care Services [...]
Originally published in The Mercury News. By Chris De Benedetti November 7, 2014 When Rey Faustino’s family settled in the Bay Area a quarter-century ago, he was an immigrant child yearning to help his parents make ends meet. Years later, Faustino has given other families what he wanted for his own — easy-to-use [...]
Originally published in OaklandNorth. By Mara Van Ells November 6, 2014 Nine-month-old Xochil Gonzalez squirmed and fussed as medical assistant Hilda Romero Gomez daubed a yellowish white mixture onto her baby teeth. “Swipe and swipe,” Romero Gomez said as she quickly painted the fluoride varnish onto Xochil’s bottom two teeth with a miniscule [...]
Originally published in PsychiatryAdvisor. By Scott Zeller, MD October 06, 2014 It's been hard to miss hearing of the nationwide scourge of psychiatric patients languishing for long hours in medical emergency departments (EDs). Known as “boarding,” it is an unfortunate situation that reportedly arises over 90% of EDs on a regular basis. Individuals [...]
Originally published in SFGate. By Victoria Colliver August 27, 2014 Shante Robinson met Jimmy Jordan in April on one of Robinson's many visits to Highland Hospital's emergency room. Robinson has been struggling to manage his diabetes and control his debilitating gout, and the pain and symptoms of those diseases have taken the 52-year-old patient to the Oakland hospital more times than [...]
Originally published in Mercury News. By Rebecca Parr August 15, 2014 HAYWARD — New patients sometimes have had to wait months for a routine appointment at the Hayward Wellness Clinic, something that should change when the center moves Monday to a larger site at Southland Mall. “We’re so popular, we didn’t have enough [...]
Originally published in California Healthline. By David Gorn May 13, 2014 University of California researchers yesterday released initial results of a pilot project to launch a patient-centered medical home model of care for HIV/AIDS patients at a hospital and four community clinics in Alameda County. The early results were pretty striking, according to [...]
Originally published in The Mercury News. By Sandt Kleffman July 5, 2013 LeAna Powell, already missing two front teeth, has so much pain from several molars that she pops pain pills routinely and tries to eat only soft food. She thought it would be OK to munch some popcorn, but when she tried [...]
Originally published in SF Chronicle. By Victoria Colliver June 4, 2013 (06-06) 17:16 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Jenelle Prins doesn't envision ever being able to live without taking at least some medication to help her cope with chronic pain due to the skeletal and shoulder injuries she suffered from a car accident in 1988 [...]
Originally published in KQED. By Lisa Aliferis April 26, 2013 Public health implications as people who stop taking HIV medications can quickly become infectious. A major goal of the federal health care law is that millions of people who currently do not have health insurance will have improved access to care. But the [...]
