CommuniCare builds bold, colorful clinic for Yolo s uninsured, Medi-Cal, Medicare patients
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Jan. 30 Uninsured patients and individuals covered by
Medi-Cal and Medicare will get a new medical home Monday in Yolo County when CommuniCare Health Centers re-opens its dramatically renovated
Davis Community Clinic.
The new clinic, which occupies the same 13,000 square feet, has 16 exam rooms and seven dental treatment spaces, up from 10 exam rooms and five dental operatories. It also boasts bold paint colors and striking architectural accents, such as the coffered ceiling, in the waiting room.
Dr.
Melissa Marshall,
CommuniCare s chief executive officer, made the decision to close the clinic for construction 10 months ago, moving into a smaller office across the street as COVID-19 cases surged and much of the facility s care delivery moved to telemedicine.
Sutter Davis Hospital Auxiliary Scholarships will be awarded to residents of Yolo County and Dixon who intend to pursue a human-health related career. High school seniors, college students, Sutter Davis Hospital campus employees, and change of career/re-entry applicants are eligible for consideratio
Richard Francis (Dick) Walters
Richard Francis Walters (Dick) died on Jan. 18 at the age of 90.
Dick was born Aug. 30, 1930, in Romania, the son of American parents. His father was a petroleum geologist in the Ploesti Oil Fields. Dick came to America when he was 9, and lived in Scarsdale, N.Y., during the war years. He graduated from Williams College, earned his master’s degree from the University of Wyoming, a graduate degree from the University of Bordeaux, France, and a Ph.D. in geology from Stanford in 1957.
After working for 11 years in the oil industry, he joined the UC Davis School of Medicine, working on computer applications to medicine in 1967. His career evolved due, as he said, to serendipity. He discovered his interest in teaching while he was a graduate student, and in the oil business started working with computers. Glen Snodgrass, a next-door neighbor in New Orleans, invited Dick to come to the newly opened School of Medicine at UCD to apply his computer knowledg
UC Davis veterinary students expand care for pets of homeless
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UC Davis DVM student Jordan Nunes (left) and faculty mentor Dr. Janet Foley examine Mamas the cat at the Davis PAW clinic
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Crissy Phillips has been a pet owner for many years and grew up with horses and other animals. Nothing has stopped her from providing the best possible care for her animals not homelessness, not her battle with clinical depression, and not her daily struggles to provide for them. Her dedication shines through easily apparent as she unveils a thick file of her two cats’ medical records and just became a bit easier with the opening of a new clinic for pets of the homeless in Davis.
Vaccine brings glimmer of hope to frontline workers at Sutter Davis Hospital
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Sutter Davis ER nurse Fiona Moore received the COVID-19 vaccine from fellow nurse Laura Caban on Friday morning. Moore is among the frontline hospital workers receiving doses from Yolo County’s first batch of the Pfizer vaccine. Courtesy photo
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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fiona Moore has been one of those healthcare workers on the front lines.
A registered nurse in the Sutter Davis Hospital emergency department, Moore has spent the last nine months treating COVID patients as they’ve arrived some who walked in with a cough or fever, others who arrived code three in an ambulance needing to be intubated.