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Episode 46: Geriatrics Workforce

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Josette Rivera, a distinguished professor of Medicine and a clinician educator at the renowned UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Kathryn Stambaugh, MPH,MBA, Geriatric Services Director from LifeLong Medical Care also joins us to share their journey on becoming an IHI Level 1 recognized Age Friendly Health System. Join […]

Episode 45: Prenatal Immunization

This episode features a prenatal immunization discussion with an expert panel from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). It explores the impactful prenatal immunization multi-year project made possible by funding from CDPH and in partnership with Aliados Health and its member health centers. Hear about efforts to boost prenatal immunization rates and lead the […]

Episode 44: Street Medicine

Street medicine takes health services on the road, creating access outside of clinic walls to serve populations experiencing homelessness and other barriers to care. In this episode, we are introduced to LifeLong Medical Care’s Street Dentistry program and the Botanical Bus’s Mobile Herb Clinic, providing dental and homeopathic services to unhoused and migrant communities.

Episode 43: Enhancing ACE Screening through HMG Care Coordination

First 5 Contra Costa is leading the local effort to implement Help Me Grow, a system of coordination used nationally to connect children to the early screening and community services they need to thrive. The HMG model has been implemented throughout the U.S. and in half of California’s counties. First 5 Contra Costa, the Contra Costa […]

Episode 42: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion with CommuniCare Health Centers

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reforms are critical and challenging. CommuniCare Health Centers strives to be humble and learn from their staff and the communities they serve, as well as commit to their own development in unlearning patriarchal, heterosexist, white-supremist systems, while learning anti-racism best practices in trauma informed care. This episode features CommuniCare’s Dr. Suzanne […]

Episode 40: Street Medicine

Today’s episode features a street medicine conversation with our panel from CommuniCare Health Centers in Yolo County, Ritter Center in Marin County, and Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center in Solano County. According to the Street Medicine Institute, street medicine is the provision of health care directly to those living and sleeping on the streets through […]

Episode 39: CalAIM: What do health centers need to know?

Join a conversation between Aliados Health’s Population Health Department Director, Michelle Rosaschi, and Partnership Health Plan of California’s Director of Care Coordination, Katherine Barresi, as they discuss the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Enhance Care Management or ECM program.

Episode 36: Culturally Diversified Diagnosis – Hidden in Plain Sight – Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms

In honor of Black History Month, Dr. Mohamed A. Jalloh, Pharm.D., BCPS, Assistant Professor of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at Touro University California College of Pharmacy and Ambulatory Care Specialist at OLE Health Pharmacy Residency Program, is speaking on the role of race in medicine and the impact of race corrections in clinical algorithms. […]

Episode 35: National Hypertension Control Initiative with the American Heart Association

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted social inequities in health. In response, the American Heart Association (AHA) is launching a new evidence-based, community-driven effort to reduce hypertension. The National Hypertension Control Initiative (NHCI) seeks to improve health care and save lives in at-risk communities, which are most affected by hypertension and COVID-19. Listen in as […]