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Last week was Food Champion Week at Aliados Health. We hosted a Food Champion Roundtable event, and taped two podcast episodes related to food and nutrition. This is one of the podcast episodes and features Dr. Steven Chen (Chief Medical Officer) of All In Alameda County and Jessica Jamison, MPH (Director of Patient and Community Engagement) of Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center. They discussed their...

This episode features Dr. Danielle Oryn and Dr. Lisa Ward. Dr. Oryn is the Chief Medical Officer/Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Aliados Health. Dr. Ward is a Regional Medical Director at Marin Community Clinics (MCC), located in Marin County. Dr. Oryn will be asking Dr. Ward questions about MCC’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

This episode features Michaela Moss, a health educator from Marin City Health and Wellness Center (MCHW), who will talk about their food access and nutrition education initiatives. This is a unique episode, as it was recorded in March of 2020, just as the pandemic was starting to affect health centers. Many of the health center’s patient programs, including an in-person food pharmacy program, have...

This episode features Cathryn Couch who is the founder and CEO of Ceres Community Project, a non-profit working to foster health by connecting people to one another and to a healthier food system. Ceres provides 150,000 organic medically tailored meals annually to primarily low-income people struggling because of a health challenge. Youth volunteers grow food and prepare the meals as part of a you...

This episode features health center staff Michelle Hill and Avani Bedagkar. Michelle is the CQI Coordinator at Long Valley Health Center (LVHC) in Laytonville, CA. She was the Patient-Centered Medical Home (or PCMH) Project Lead when LVHC applied for certification in 2018 using the new 2017 Standards and Distinction programs. LVHC was the 1st Health Center in California to receive the Distinction...

This episode features Julie Vlasis, "Compliance Officer and CQI Coordinator" for Sonoma Valley Community Health Center. In January of 2020, Sonoma Valley documented a promising practice titled “Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Uncontrolled Diabetic Patients”. While a lot has changed since January, Sonoma Valley has continued to expand its Continuous Glucose Monitoring (or CGM) project and are see...

This episode is all about childcare. Childcare is an ever-present need for our workforce. Every county in California has a Resource and Referral (R & R) agency that serves as a hub for parents and childcare providers. They connect children and open spots, train providers, and manage financial assistance options that are available. This panel brings together the Executive Directors from the R & R a...

This episode features Jennifer Inden, Aliados Health’s Health Information Technology Project Manager. She is joined by three health center representatives who will explore the different facets of realizing a successful Patient Portal. A Patient Portal is a secure website or app which patients can access certain health records, review lab results, and send messages to their care team. For years it...

This episode is the sixth in our series of COVID-19 focused sessions. The goal of these sessions is to share information with health centers that can help make this challenging time a little bit easier. This will be our last COVID focused session and features Aliados Health’s CEO Dr. Karen Milman who will talk about Aliados Health’s response to COVID-19. Dr. Milman has focused her career on improv...

This episode is the fifth in our series of COVID-19 focused sessions. The goal of these sessions is to share information with health centers that can help make this challenging time a little bit easier. Today we’re joined by four guests representing COADs and VOADs of Marin, Napa, and Sonoma Counties to talk about the work they’re doing during the COVID-19 pandemic specifically around food resourc...

This episode is the fourth in our series of COVID-19 focused sessions. The goal of these sessions is to share information with health centers that can help make this challenging time a little bit easier. Today we’re joined by three health centers in Sonoma County and one in Marin County to talk about the homeless response during COVID. Each of our four guests will talk about their unique perspecti...

This episode is the third in our series of COVID-19 focused sessions. The goal of these sessions is to share information with health centers that can help make this challenging time a little bit easier. Today we have a continuation of our last episode “What Matters Most to You?” with Dr. Ellen Barnett. She is a recently retired family doctor who practiced for 20 years at the Integrative Medical Cl...

This episode is the second in our series of COVID-19 focused sessions. The goal of these sessions is to share information with health centers that can help make this challenging time a little bit easier. This episode features Ellen Barnett who is a recently retired family doctor. She practiced for 20 years at the Integrative Medical Clinic in Santa Rosa and was on the faculty of the Sutter Family...

This episode is the first episode in a series of COVID-19 focused sessions. Our goal is to share information with health centers that can help make this challenging time a little bit easier. Aliados Health’s Health Information Technology Project Manager, Jennifer Inden, joined this session. She brings years of experience working in a health center, and at Aliados Health has become our resident exp...

The COVID-19 pandemic is effecting all American lives, especially those that work in our healthcare system. This episode features current COVID legislation in Sacramento as it relates to health centers, and general state policy priorities. Bethany Snyder, Aliados Health’s Advocacy Consultant, and Victor Christy, Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs at CaliforniaHealth+ Advocates joined us to...

This episode features Bethany Snyder, Aliados Health's ( Aliados Health) Advocacy Consultant, and Darlene Rios Drapkin, a Partnership Specialist at US Census Bureau. Our guests will talk about the upcoming 2020 Census. April 1 is Census Day! Every ten years the U.S. government conducts a census to count every resident in the US. It is a huge undertaking that greatly impacts the health care sector....

This episode features Michael Edwards the director of quality and training at the Community Health Center Association of Mississippi. He will talk about colorectal cancer screening best practices and what his health centers have done to improve their screening rates.

This episode features Trina Higgins, a Registered Dietitian from the Northern California Center for Well-Being. A Registered Dietitian, or RD, is someone who is licensed to counsel patients on their dietary habits. To become a dietitian, one must obtain a four year degree with many specific dietetic course requirements, complete a dietetic internship, and pass a rigorous exam. More information on...

This episode features Jessicca Moore, director of innovations at Petaluma Health Center who will talk about the PHASE program. PHASE stands for Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes Every Day which is an evidence-based approach that first helped Kaiser Permanente reduce heart disease morbidity by 60 percent among its members. Aliados Health has participated in the PHASE program since 2011 with fund...

This episode features Jessicca Moore, director of innovations at Petaluma Health Center who will talk about the PHASE program. PHASE stands for Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes Every Day which is an evidence-based approach that first helped Kaiser Permanente reduce heart disease morbidity by 60 percent among its members. Aliados Health has participated in the PHASE program since 2011 with fund...

This episode features Danny Toub from Santa Rosa Community Health in Sonoma County CA, who will talk about their recently documented promising practice titled “HIV Testing Program and PrEP Management”.

This episode features Tiffany Jimenez from Petaluma Health Center who will talk about how to huddle as a care team.

This episode features Ariel Thomas-Urlik from Sonoma County's Department of Health Services, Impact Sonoma Tobacco and Nicotine Prevention Team who will talk about the vaping epidemic and resources available for health centers to help patients.

This first podcast episode features health center Santa Rosa Community Health presenting their new promising practice titled "FIT Test Lab Packaging". This promising practice aimed to increase colorectal cancer screening among patients.