LifeLong Medical Care

🌎World Mental Health Day 🌍 At LifeLong Medical Care, we recognize the critical importance of mental health. Access to mental health care is essential, yet many face barriers such as cost, availability, and stigma. It's vital to seek help and utilize available resources to support your mental well-being. Our dedicated team at LifeLong Medical Care provides culturally sensitive and uniquely individualized comprehensive behavioral health services to help you navigate life's challenges and improve your mental health. We are committed to creating a supportive and healthy environment for everyone. Remember, mental health is just as important as physical health. Let's work together to break down barriers and ensure everyone has the support they need. 💚 For more information, visit ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gxVMe-yh #MentalHealthMatters #WorldMentalHealthDay

💙 At LifeLong Medical Care, our mission extends far beyond providing healthcare—it’s about building stronger, healthier communities. In her latest message, our CEO Cecilia Aviles reflects on LifeLong’s involvement in two recent community events that exemplify our commitment to addressing critical issues like homelessness and access to care. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to serve and uplift our community!

October is American National Pharmacists Month, a month dedicated to highlighting the crucial role pharmacists play in our health and well-being. This month is especially significant for Kyle Hui, PharmD BCGP, LifeLong’s Pharmacy Director, and only pharmacist. Pharmacists like Hui are essential to healthcare organizations and play a critical role in ensuring optimal patient care, medication safety, and improved health outcomes. Pharmacists work alongside other healthcare professionals to provide patient-centered, team-based care, which includes counseling patients on medication use, managing medication therapy, and addressing medication-related problems. Their expertise helps expand access to care, improve medication adherence, and reduce healthcare costs. The patient-centered care is what attracted Hui to LifeLong. “I felt like I wanted to use the knowledge that I have to help the providers here and the patients to get what they need,” he said. As LifeLong’s only pharmacist, Hui’s responsibilities are extensive and vital. He not only orders medications for the dispensaries but also oversees the vaccine program and acts as the liaison between LifeLong and local pharmacies. Additionally, Hui and his staff ensure LifeLong’s compliance with the intricate federal 340B program, which mandates drug manufacturers provide discounts to low-income and uninsured patients. #AmericanPharmacistsMonth #ThankAPharmacist #PharmacyMonth #PharmacyHeroes

🎉Congratulations to the class of 2024 Nurse Practitioners graduates! Seven nurse practitioners from the East Bay Consortium’s Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Fellowship graduated in September. The consortium is a partnership with LifeLong, La Clinica and UCSF-School of Nursing. The thrilling news is that six will continue working at LifeLong, while the seventh graduate has signed on with La Clinica. 🩺 “At the highest levels of leadership at LifeLong, we are so proud of this program and these graduates,” said Chief Medical Officer Dr. Michael Stacey. “This is really fulfilling our intention of training advanced providers, not just in community health, but to stay on and work at LifeLong.” 🤝The APP Fellowship rigorous 12-month program is an integral part of LifeLong’s commitment as an education institution dedicated to training providers in community health. This program not only helps address the shortage of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the medical community in general, but it also provides an important pipeline to filling critical positions at LifeLong. 🎉Congratulations to the new graduates! Read the full story➡️https://lnkd.in/gvNwJSD2 📸Pictured back row (Left to Right): Shevan Lewallen, FNP, Program Director; Marina Rosenberg, MSN, FNP-C; Kaitlin Johnson, FNP-C; Lisa Magdaleno, MSN, AGNP-G; Amy Mosley, MSN, FNP, L.Ac; Sonni D. Belcher, FNP-C. Front row (left to right): Guadalupe Aimee parades Ramirez, MSN, FNP-C; Nareen Rehimtoola, MSN, FNP-C; Mariam Attawia, RN, MSN, FNP, Program Director.

💙LifeLong honored the life and legacy of Dr. Howard Daniel, whose East Oakland practice became a part of LifeLong Medical Care 16 years ago, was celebrated last month by local dignitaries, former patients, and his extensive family. Dr. Daniel passed away on June 15, 2022, days before his 89th birthday. “His practice, started in 1968, was not just a medical office but a sanctuary for so many in this community,” Alameda County Board President Nathan Miley said. “He faced and overcame systemic barriers, starting with his own practice, when Black doctors were often excluded. This was not just an act of personal triumph, but an act of resistance against a system that continues to leave too many behind. In honoring him today, we recognize the critical need to continue dismantling these barriers today, as we face the challenge of ensuring access to comprehensive healthcare for all.” Miley continued, “Dr. Daniel’s work aligned with our ongoing commitment to health equity, and it reminds us that investment in community-based healthcare can change lives.” Many who spoke noted that Dr. Daniel, raised in Ohio and Jamaica, Queens, New York, and educated at Howard University College of Medicine, could have practiced anywhere, but he chose East Oakland and kept his practice in the community for 45 years. During that time, he delivered close to 5,000 babies, his son Kent Daniel told the gathering. He merged his practice with LifeLong in 2008, when it became LifeLong’s Howard Daniel Health Center. Read the full story here➡️https://lnkd.in/ghuCM6Kw

🎗️October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a powerful reminder of the importance of early detection. We are proud of the work we’re doing to help women in our community get the screenings they need. In partnership with Sutter Health, we’ve been able to bring mammography-equipped vans directly to underserved neighborhoods, breaking down the barriers that too often prevent women from accessing breast cancer screenings. Breast cancer screenings save lives, if you’re due for a mammogram make an appointment. According to American Cancer Society here some screening guidelines: 🎗️Women between 40 and 44 have the option to start screening with a mammogram every year. 🎗️Women 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year. 🎗️Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year, or they can choose to continue yearly mammograms. 🎗️Screening should continue as long as a woman is in good health and is expected to live at least 10 more years. 🎗️All women should understand what to expect when getting a mammogram for breast cancer screening – what the test can and cannot do. ➡️Make an appointment for your mammogram today by calling 510-981-4000.

Reflecting on a Heartwarming Celebration🌟! Last Thursday, LifeLong Medical Care’s board, staff, and community health colleagues gathered to celebrate the remarkable career of our CEO Emeritus, David B. Vliet, MBA. 🎉 The event was filled with stories, laughter, and love as we reminisced about David's compassionate, visionary, and steadfast leadership, his great sense of humor, and his impressive musical talents. 💖 We were honored to have remarkable leaders join us, including Andie Martinez Patterson (CEO, Alameda Health Consortium and Community Health Center Network), Tracy Macdonald Mendez (CEO, Aliados Health), and Jane Garcia (CEO, La Clínica). Their kind words and commitment to community health made the event even more special✨. 📢Special shout-outs to RYSE Youth Center and Blackberry Soul Fine Catering. 🤝Over many years, no matter the issues or challenges, David put equity for patients and the workforce of community health centers at the center, transforming countless lives. He fostered a culture of empathy and excellence during the COVID pandemic, leaving his mark on LifeLong during one of the most challenging times in our history. LifeLong will carry the inspiration and values instilled by David as we continue to strive for excellence in all that we do. Julie Sinai, Brenda Goldstein, Michael Stacey, Yui Nishiike, Marty Lynch, Brent Copen, Scott Coffin, Stephen Fleischer-Ihn, Cecilia Aviles, MBA, BSN, RN. #CommunityHealth #HealthcareInnovation #ValueCHCs #CHCsLead

Vote YES on Prop 35!

Reminder! We and our member #CHCs are hosting two candidate forums the first week of October! Please join us on October 1 for for California Senate District 7 and on October 2 for Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 5. These nonpartisan events are open to the public and will provide a unique opportunity for voters to engage directly with the candidates, ask questions and make informed decisions ahead of the November general election. Scan the QR codes or the links below to register: CA Senate 7 Registration Link➡️ https://bit.ly/3AZt06l BoS 5 Registration Link ➡️ https://bit.ly/3Tp3wp4 #Vote #Vota #ValueCHCs #YourVoteMatters 🗳 Asian Health Services Baywell Health Community La Clínica de La Raza LifeLong Medical Care Native American Health Center Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center

💙 Thank you, Dr. Rhee for visiting LifeLong's Trust Health Center. LifeLong is deeply grateful to you for witnessing our work firsthand. Your support is invaluable as we strive to advance health equity and provide care for those who need it most.