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UCGC gave flu shots to 99.6% of UGCG patients!
The UCSF Center for Geriatric Care (UCGC) gave flu shots to 99.6% of UCGC patients during this year's flu season. This year was better than in any previous year on record. This success was only possible due to the combined efforts of everyone in our UCGC practice. Brenda, Julia and Liz organized our staff to give flu shots during provider appointments, during nurse visits, and during our Saturday flu shot day. Front desk staff scheduled patients and mailed out reminder cards. Nursing staff (including our permanent and temporary staff) administered lots of injections (both in and out of costume) and contacted patients to get updates about immunizations they got other places or about refusal to get vaccines. Our social worker helped patients get transportation to their appointments. Providers remembered to recommend flu shots during office visits and home visits. Ziyi and Christina provided reports of patients who were overdue so we could do outreach. Of course we would never brag, but you can notice in the graph below how we did among the UCSF primary care practices. I am very proud of everything that you all contributed to make this possible and I am so glad that I get to work with each one of you. You make our work excellent and fun. ---Daniel Pound, MD
Louise Aronson Presents at Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds
Dr. Louise Aronson will be presenting "Integrative Aging: Optimizing Wellness across the Decades of Elderhood" at the Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 from 8:00 to 9:00 am at the Osher Building, 1545 Divisadero Street, Room 523. CME Units available. Light breakfast will be served.
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Louise Aronson is a geriatrician, writer, educator, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the author of the New York Times bestseller Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life. She sees patients in the Osher Center’s Integrative Aging clinic and leads two academic-community partnerships to improve the lives and health of diverse San Francisco elders. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award. Her writing appears in publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, Discover Magazine, and the New England Journal of Medicine and has earned her four Pushcart nominations, the Sonora Review Prize, and a MacDowell fellowship. Her work has been featured on CBS This Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, Politico, LitHub, Kaiser Health News, and Tech Nation.
An EVALUATION must be completed after the event to receive CME credit.