The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) has awarded the 2011 Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s (PAMF) Wellness Assessment for Youth To Get Organized Program – known as WAY2GO! .
The 2011 Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care is presented once per year at the Society’s Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. Nancy Brown, Ph.D., a PAMF health education manager and the WAY2GO! project director, accepted the award in person and shared a slideshow and overview of the WAY2GO! program with meeting attendees.
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For the 14th year in a row, Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center and Palo Alto Medical Foundation Santa Cruz, will host a Senior Health Fair for the community on April 30, 2011, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This free event is open to seniors in the community and offers multiple free health-screening exams for diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, dental hygiene, skin cancer, bone density, glaucoma, hearing and other health issues.
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Families with Down syndrome children recently got the chance to share experiences and watch two inspiring short films that celebrate the successes of children with Down syndrome. The viewing took place at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s (PAMF) Family Film Day that was held at the PAMF Mountain View Center on January 16, 2011.
“This was very much a time for sharing and celebrating,” says Jane Chen, M.D. , a pediatrician PAMF’s Sunnyvale Center who organized the event and whose 4-year-old daughter, Melissa, has Down syndrome. “I’ve learned so much myself from other parents, I wanted to provide an opportunity for families with Down syndrome children to gather and exchange their unique experiences.”
Parents, grandparents and children watched and discussed the films “Dakota’s Pride,” and “Emma’s Gifts,” which chart the progress of two children with Down syndrome. One parent, who works for the educational toy maker Leapfrog, engaged other parents in an informal brainstorming session on new ways to support Down syndrome children in their learning. The event also attracted a couple of special guests – Melanie Manning, M.D., the director of the Center for Down Syndrome at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and two of her genetic counseling students.
Down Syndrome Resources
Looking for up-to-date Down syndrome resources in-person? More information, books and videos are now available at PAMF’s Mountain View Center Community Health Resource Center (CHRC) thanks to recent generous donations from Dr. Chen and the Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network.
Visit the National Down Syndrome Society online.
Visit the Silicon Valley Down Syndrome Network online.
Pictured left to right: Tony Marzoni, M.D., PAMF Palo Alto Division president; George Block, M.D., chief medical officer at O'Connor Hospital; Larry deGhetaldi, M.D., PAMF Santa Cruz Division president, and Bob Norman, M.D., residency program director at O'Connor Hospital
With the current acute shortage of primary care doctors, finding a good doctor to care for you and your family can be like finding a needle in a haystack. The Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) recently stepped in to ease this critical need by donating $125,000 to the O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in San Jose, the only local program in the South Bay that trains medical school graduates who are committed to becoming family medicine doctors.
“At PAMF, it’s our mission to provide the best possible care to our many patients including the growing number of elderly people and those with chronic diseases,” says Larry deGhetaldi, M.D., PAMF Santa Cruz Division president. “Currently only 4 percent of medical school graduates choose to become primary care doctors. We know how important it is to support a quality program such as the O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program that attracts candidates from the best medical schools, many of whom choose to stay and practice in the Bay Area.”
To date, PAMF has recruited more than 45 family medicine doctors from the O’Connor Family Medicine Residency Program.
In addition to financial support, PAMF is also providing the residency program students with the opportunity to gain valuable specialty expertise in our Dermatology Departments. This is the second year in a row PAMF has supported the O’Connor Hospital Family Practice Residency Program financially.
Learn more about the O’Connor Hospital Family Practice Residency Program and the program’s FAQs.
Nine Area Clinics Supported by PAMF Received $625,000
Mountain View, Calif., May 5, 2010 -To help patients in need access vital medical services, Sutter Health donated $1.48 million to 18 community health clinics in dozens of communities across Northern California. These latest grants are part of the not-for-profit network’s lasting commitment to serve all patients who need health care regardless of their ability to pay.
Ravenswood Clinic in East Palo Alto is one of the nine grant recipients
These donations will help community clinics improve direct patient care by:
- Purchasing and/or upgrading of vital health equipment used in direct patient care
- Increasing of community clinic capacity to serve patients
- Maintaining or extending hours of patient services
- Extending access to vital specialty care services for community clinic patients
- Launching disease prevention and/or chronic disease management programs for patients.
Meeting community health care needs is the cornerstone of Sutter Health’s not-for-profit mission. Its care and services for the poor and underserved and benefits for the broader community totaled $667 million in 2009.
All of the community clinics for which Palo Alto Medical Foundation wrote letters of support received Sutter grants, for a total of $625,000. Comprehensive applications and details of how grant monies would be allocated were required. Most of the clinics plan to use the grant monies to increase services and clinical hours, although several will fund specialized programs. Clinic recipients and their grant amounts are:
Alameda County
Santa Clara County
San Mateo County
Santa Cruz County
