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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month

January 27, 2023 by Jamie DaSilva Leave a Comment

By Elaine Herscher

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month, and LifeLong has been focusing special attention on screening for this type of cancer. Screening for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancers are three of our 10 core quality measures by which we judge the caliber of our care.

Brookside San Pablo, Ashby, and William Jenkins health centers were the top three performing sites for cervical cancer screening in the last three months of 2022.

At Jenkins, the medical assistants are keeping a sharp eye on women patients eligible for a pap smear, which is a procedure that gently removes cells from the surface of the cervix. The cells are then examined for any changes or abnormalities that could lead to cervical cancer.

“MAs will prompt the provider to offer the pap or automatically schedule them into an eligible clinic,” says Jenkins Associate Medical Director Dr. Thomas McBride. Dr. McBride says the medical assistants have been essential in this process.

Lucy Cardenas is one of the MAs whom the health center credits for keeping track of this life-saving screening for the patients.

“We emphasize the importance of the screenings, and we always remind the patients when they’re due and remind the providers to talk to them about it,” Lucy says. “We realize that many of our patients come from different countries, and we’ve noticed that they don’t know what a pap smear is.”

Many of the patients she sees are from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico. “Some are in their 30s or 40s and they’ve never had a pap smear,” Lucy says.

A woman’s first pap test should be at age 21. If that result is normal, she likely won’t have to be tested again for three years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends regular testing between the ages 30 and 65, generally every five years. After age 65, a woman’s doctor may decide she no longer needs to be screened if she’s never had an abnormal pap smear or cervical precancer in the past.

More than 14,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. But the National Cervical Cancer Coalition says the disease is preventable with screening and vaccination against HPV (human papillomavirus), a sexually transmitted disease that be a precursor to cervical cancer.

“This country gives patients a lot of resources, so we should educate the patients. Sometimes they don’t know that it can be done for free if they qualify,” Lucy says. “I’m glad to see that the effort that the providers and we put into helping patients is helping the community.”

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Welcome Renna Khuner-Haber as Director of Clinical Initiatives

January 25, 2023 by Jamie DaSilva Leave a Comment

LifeLong colleagues,

We want to welcome back Renna Khuner-Haber and congratulate her on starting her new role as the Director of Clinical Initiatives on January 17th. This position is relatively new at LifeLong Medical Care and reports to Dr. Maggie Edmunds, our Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Renna will be overseeing the following programs: HIV Treatment and Prevention, Medication-Assisted Treatment of Substance Abuse Sisorders, Recovery Support Coordination, and Hepatitis C Seniors. Learn more about Renna below.

“I am excited to be stepping into the Director of Clinical Initiatives role after serving as LifeLong’s COVID Program Manager for two years. In this new position, I am committed to supporting and strengthening our clinical care and programs for all patients, with a focus on health equity and improving efficiencies. I am continually inspired by the dedication of LifeLong staff to providing exceptional care to our patients and strive to bring this high level of care to my work. Prior to my time at LifeLong, I worked in program management at several non-profits and also have a background in nutrition. A third generation Berkeley resident, I love hiking the local trails, biking around town, shopping at the farmers market, and hanging out with my partner and 2 young kids.”

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The Future Of The DEIB Committee

January 23, 2023 by Jamie DaSilva Leave a Comment

LifeLong Staff,

The Revisioning/Reimagining/Re-energizing The Diversity (RTD) Committee held the third of four meetings in-person in January. Formed to envision the future for an ongoing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging (DEIB) Committee, the effort launched October 2022 and by the end of February the group will have met 4 times, with each session facilitated by Diane Johnson, PhD, Founder and CEO of Mmapeu Consulting, Lifelong Medical Care’s DEI consultant. 

The face-to-face meetings have been important to create the blueprint, realistic timelines, and processes that will lead to establishing an ongoing a DEIB committee in 2023. The committee will make a set of recommendations that will suggest concrete plans to further DEIB work for significant cultural impact within LifeLong. The goal of the ongoing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee will be to serve as the organizational liaison, advisory council, feedback loop, and thought partner to Lifelong leadership that continues the evolution of this important work.  

This initial group, the RTD, is made up of 20 members from various departments and roles across LifeLong. After the final meeting in February, there will be a nominations and selection process for LifeLong’s permanent, standing committee.  The members of the new DEIB Committee will have 12 to18-month terms and offer guidance, thought leadership, and accountability for organizational and departmental DEIB work.  

Another exciting part of the ongoing DEIB efforts is the recruiting and hiring of a Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. This position will champion and support the mission, vision, and goals outlined by the RTD committee, working in tandem with Lifelong leadership and the newly formed DEIB Committee. The Director of DEIB will ensure diverse perspectives and opinions are incorporated, current and future priorities are identified, and organizational assessments will be conducted. This leads to collaboratively creating protocols and procedures, recommendations for specific activities, creation of success metrics, and crafting a DEIB workplan that is shared across and includes engagement of the entire organization.

We look forward to what is being created as LifeLong continues its diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging journey.


The RTD Committee

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Happy Lunar New Year

January 20, 2023 by Jamie DaSilva Leave a Comment

This weekend, millions of Americans with roots in China, Vietnam, South Korea and other Asian countries will ring in the Lunar New Year. Many who follow the Chinese zodiac calendar will usher in the Year of the Rabbit, symbolizing hope and good fortune.

Source: CNN

To learn more:

Smithsonian, Year of the Rabbit- Year of the Rabbit | Smithsonian Institution (si.edu)

Datebook, SF Chronicle – Lunar New Year 2023

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Coupa, LifeLong’s New Web-based System Goes Live Jan. 17

January 13, 2023 by Jamie DaSilva Leave a Comment

Dear LifeLong Staff,

We are excited to announce that we are officially going live with Coupa as of Tuesday, January 17th!

As mentioned, we are taking a phased approach to our Coupa project. On January 17th, all procurement users will be able to access the system to place and approve orders and a smaller group of expense users will be going live (Facilities, Street Medicine, and BSP). The rest of the expense users will be going live in the coming weeks.

Coupa will be our web-based system for creating purchase requisitions, initiating approvals, creating purchase orders to suppliers, receiving invoices from suppliers for payment, and submitting expense reports. Coupa will be replacing Bellwether as our purchasing system and Bellwether will not be available to place new requisitions after January 16th.

Please expect more emails from me (and others) as we prepare for our go-live date. We will be sending out Coupa Guides, Coupa PowerPoints, hosting “Coupa office hours” 2x a week, and Q&A sessions during the week of January 30th.  In the meantime, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our project lead Coupa consultant Jenn Irving at jirving@lifelongmedical.org or please feel free to reach out to me directly.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support.

Best,

Brent

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 13, 2023 by Jamie DaSilva Leave a Comment

Each year on the third Monday of January we observe Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. Day, remembering and celebrating Rev. Dr. King’s life and achievements as an influential civil rights leader for racial equity and ending racial segregation. MLK Day is also a day to reflect on the work that still needs to be done for racial equality and a day of service, making the holiday more than just a day off.  

The concept of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions. After King’s death, U.S. Representative John Conyers (D-MI) and U.S. Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA) introduced a bill in Congress to make King’s birthday a national holiday. The bill first came to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1979; however, it fell five votes short of the number needed for passage.  

Proponents looked for support from the corporate community and the public. As part of this strategy, Stevie Wonder released the single ‘Happy Birthday’ to popularize the campaign in 1980 and hosted the Rally for Peace Press Conference in 1981. Six million signatures were collected for a petition for Congress to pass the law, and it is considered the largest petition in favor of an issue in U.S. history. (Only 100,00 petition signatures are needed to require a response in 30 days.) 

Martin Luther King quote inscription on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on The National Mall

On November 2, 1983, President Reagan signed a bill, proposed by Representative Katie Hall (D-MI), to create a federal holiday honoring King. The bill passed the Senate by a count of 78 to 22, and the House of Representatives by 338 to 90. The holiday was observed for the first time on January 20, 1986. It took until 2000, thirty-two years later, for all fifty states to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is dubbed the Day of Service to help to raise awareness, mobilize volunteers, and provide individuals with an opportunity to engage and build new connections, and help nonprofits find support for their programs. MLK Day of Service is intended to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, create solutions to social problems, and move us closer to Dr. King’s vision of a “Beloved Community.”  

“Without the efforts of civil rights leaders, it is certain we would not have the opportunity to care for the communities we serve today because as a Federally Qualified Health Center, we are that access to care for many, many communities. The work you do each and every day further extends the efforts of these leaders and creates the health and wellbeing folks in our communities need in order to live.” – CEO David B. Vliet 

5 Surprising Things About Martin Luther king Jr.: 

– Natural Museum of African American History & Cultgure 

SF Bay Area Celebrations 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Events In The SF Bay Area (sanfran.com) 

“I Have a Dream” speech 

Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream Speech – August 28, 1963 – YouTube 

Source: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY – January 16, 2023 – National Today 

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