About OA…
SF Business Times, Health Care Heroes Awards 2011, Special supplement, July 29, 2011. For more information, please click here.
Profile of OA patient, sheep rancher, Michael Tocci, Sonoma West Time and News; Healdsburg Tribune, August 18, 2011. To read full article, please click here.
Surgery Session at Kaiser Richmond profiled for Richmond Confidential, carried by the SF Chronicle, June 18, 2011
From the Field…
"Low Income Adults Less Likely to Have Coverage, Regular Source of Care" California Healthline, February 7, 2012
The Marin Independent Journal reports on a study released by the Marin Community Foundation, " 'New Portrait of Marin' report explores income inequality gap in Marin - January 18, 2012
Greater Coverage Not Linked with Safety Net Patients: A new study looks at the effects of Massachusetts' 2006 health reform law and finds that expanding access to health coverage does not necessarily lead to a decline in overall patient volume at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Los Angeles Times' "Booster Shots," National Journal.
In an effort to reduce inappropriate use of EDs for primary care, the Vallejo, California, area, health care and government leaders established the North Vallejo Patient Access Partnership "Right Care, Right Place" project in a community with few primary care resources and no county hospital. Read more...
Super Surgery Day was a huge success again at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco. Over 100 Volunteers cared for 30 grateful patients and the coverage from station KTVU, channel 2, was picked up by affiliates all over the country!!
Laura Norton, MD, a member of the Redwood Regional Medical Group and active OA volunteer was a winner of the 64th Annual North Bay Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 awards.
John Ngai, MD, a surgeon practicing at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Redwood City, received the prestigious Jefferson Award for Public Service, sponsored locally by television station KPIX, in September. To see the video click here.SF Business Times, Health Care Heroes Awards 2011, Special supplement, July 29, 2011. For more information, please click here.
Profile of OA patient, sheep rancher, Michael Tocci, Sonoma West Time and News; Healdsburg Tribune, August 18, 2011. To read full article, please click here.
Surgery Session at Kaiser Richmond profiled for Richmond Confidential, carried by the SF Chronicle, June 18, 2011
From the Field…
Operation Access supports community clinics by arranging colonoscopies for patients when baseline cancer screening indicates that further study is necessary. An excellent article about the benefits of colorectal cancer screening appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 11, 2012
A recent policy brief published by the Public Health Institute (PHI) reports that “the proportion of nonelderly adult California women with no health insurance coverage grew to nearly one in four between 2007 and 2009, a period that coincided with the national economic recession.”"Low Income Adults Less Likely to Have Coverage, Regular Source of Care" California Healthline, February 7, 2012
The Marin Independent Journal reports on a study released by the Marin Community Foundation, " 'New Portrait of Marin' report explores income inequality gap in Marin - January 18, 2012
Greater Coverage Not Linked with Safety Net Patients: A new study looks at the effects of Massachusetts' 2006 health reform law and finds that expanding access to health coverage does not necessarily lead to a decline in overall patient volume at safety-net hospitals and clinics. Los Angeles Times' "Booster Shots," National Journal.
In an effort to reduce inappropriate use of EDs for primary care, the Vallejo, California, area, health care and government leaders established the North Vallejo Patient Access Partnership "Right Care, Right Place" project in a community with few primary care resources and no county hospital. Read more...
