Personal Health, SDCMS News and Updates

County of San Diego Announces Mass H1N1 Vaccination Events (January 6, 2010)

Posted January 6th, 2010 in Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) announces a series of five H1N1 mass vaccination events for San Diego County residents, beginning with a clinic this Friday at Qualcomm Stadium.

Topics: H1N1, SDCMS News and Updates

State Proposes Sweeping Changes to Medi-Cal Program

Posted January 5th, 2010 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

The state Legislature has held public hearings on a Department of Health Care Services' (DHCS) concept paper that contemplates significant changes to the Medi-Cal program, with the goal of providing patients with access to better coordinated care that will improve outcomes and help slow the long-term growth in program costs.

Topics: Medi-Cal, SDCMS News and Updates

The Flu and You: Pandemic 2009 H1N1 Influenza Newsletter (December 2, 2009)

Posted December 4th, 2009 in Personal Health

The information on these two pages summarizes some of the latest information about the local response to H1N1. For the most recent news, guidelines, and information go to the County of San Diego website.

Topics: flu, H1N1, Healthcare News and Updates, influenza, pandemic influenza, SDCMS News and Updates

Medical Marijuana Identification Card Program (MMIC) Fact Sheet

Posted June 29th, 2009 in Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

What Physicians Need to Know!

Effective July 6, 2009, the Office of Vital Records and Statistics Unit of the Division of Public Health Services in the County of San Diego, Health and Human Services (HHSA) will begin processing applications for the State-mandated “Medical Marijuana Identification Card (MMIC) Program.”

Background

Topics: marijuana, medical marijuana, Medical Marijuana Identification Card, MMIC, SDCMS News and Updates

A New Way to Manage Your Volunteer Care

Posted March 5th, 2009 in Health Policy, Managing Your Practice, Personal Health

If there were a way to improve how you provide volunteer care, why wouldn’t you take advantage of it? Hundreds of millions of dollars of healthcare are given away for free in San Diego County. And the pressure on you and the whole medical community to care for the medically underserved grows each year. This problem is best handled in collaboration.

Topics: foundation, Kaiser Permanente, PASD, Project Access, Project Access San Diego, SDCMS Foundation, SDCMS News and Updates, SDCMSF, Surgery Day

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Posted June 23rd, 2009 in Personal Health

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Topics: SDCMS News and Updates, test tag

MRSA and MDROs

Posted June 15th, 2009 in Health Policy, Personal Health

We devote this issue of San Diego Physician to infectious disease (ID), the medical topic we once thought we had conquered. As the first cases of HIV/AIDS emerged in the early 1980s, we soon realized that “bad bugs” were here to stay and that our coexistence with them remains precarious.

Topics: infectious disease, MDRO, MRSA, SDCMS News and Updates, Staph, Staph aureus, Staphylococcus aureus

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