Tuesday, April 1, 2008

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VOLUME 5 ISSUE 4

PAMF Works With Community Clinic to Improve Care
Collaborative Partnership with Ravenswood in East Palo Alto Has Local, National Impact

PAMF Senior Director of Quality and Planning Tomas Moran and his staff began working with the Ravenswood Family Health Center (RFHC) in 2004 to help the East Palo Alto community clinic identify ways to improve its quality care processes, particularly in disease management. What started as a collaborative relationship between two local health care providers is enabling safety-net clinics throughout the country to provide better care to uninsured and other vulnerable patients. Read more

April HealthNews
PAMF Named Official Health Care Provider of San Jose Earthquakes
PAMFOnline Surpasses 100K Users, Adds Online Bill Pay

PAMF Seeks Warm and Giving Volunteers
When patients arrive at PAMF’s Palo Alto Clinic, they are greeted by friendly, dedicated volunteers eager to help them find their doctor’s office, or assist them with a wheelchair or calling for a cab. To continue putting a smile on patients’ faces, PAMF is accepting new volunteers to help make the experience of visiting the Palo Alto campus a warm and welcoming one.
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Palo Alto Clinic Now Offering Free Wireless
PAMF patients and visitors with laptop computers containing wireless cards can now surf the Internet and check their e-mail through a new wireless network at the Palo Alto Clinic. Similar to other public wireless networks, the PAMF network requires that users have their laptops search for the wireless network signal, which is named “pamfguest.” After users double click on the “pamfguest” network and launch their computers’ Web browsers, the system will ask them to click “Agree” on PAMF’s “Terms and Conditions of Use” Web page before they can continue to use the Internet. Patients and visitors can download an instruction sheet on how to sign on to the wireless network at www.pamf.org/paloalto.

Classes and Lectures

What the Traveler Needs to Know

Dr. Gary Fujimoto of PAMF’s Travel Medicine Department, will present a talk on food and sanitation in some overseas travel destinations, the latest vaccination recommendations and requirements, avian influenza and other emerging infectious diseases, malaria prevention, travelers’ diarrhea and jet lag.

Tuesday, April 8
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Palo Alto Clinic
795 El Camino Real
Level 3, Hearst Center for Health Education
Palo Alto, CA 94301
No Cost

For more information or to register, call 650-853-4873 or register online.

For Your Health Community Lecture: Skin Cancer

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. Tin Tin Tun, M.D., of PAMF's Dermatology Department, will share tips for preventing and detecting skin cancer. An explanation of how to check your skin regularly and what to look for in a sunscreen will also be given.

Wednesday, April 9
7 to 8 p.m.
Mountain View Center
701 E. El Camino Real
Floor Three Conference Center
Mountain View, CA 94040
No Cost

For more information or to register, call 408-523-3295 or register online.

Your Feet for Life: Recognizing General Foot and Ankle Problems

Learn about common foot and ankle disorders and ways to keep your feet healthy in this discussion with Steven Bartis, DPM, of PAMF's Podiatric Medicine and Surgery Department.

Wednesday, April 16
7 to 8:30 p.m.
Fremont Center
3200 Kearney Street
Conference Room, Building 2
Fremont, CA 94538
No Cost

For more information or to register, call 510-498-2891 or register online.

Exercise: Key Elements in Self Management

Join Tobias Paiva, D.O., an internal medicine physician at PAMF, and learn how to create an efficient and effective exercise program using the latest clinical guidelines.

Tuesday, April 22
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Dublin Center
4050 Dublin Blvd.
Conference Room, Level 2
Dublin, CA 94568-3112
No Cost

For more information or to register, call 925-875-6464 or register online.

View a complete list of classes and lectures at PAMF:

For Dublin, Fremont and Palo Alto, click here.

For Mountain View and Sunnyvale, click here.

For Santa Cruz, click here.

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