California Right Care Initiative

04/22/2025

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09/26/2022

Tomorrow, Tues. 9.27.22, 4-6 pm, learn about evolving heart health innovations for elders. Register at RighCare.Berkeley.edu

04/27/2022

Comprehensive Medication Management by clinical pharmacists saves lives and $, while improving provider satisfaction. Leaders from UC Davis, Blue Shield, the VA and USC share the facts during our Right Care Virtual University of Best Practices. To your Health! Enjoy this video & share please.

On Tuesday, April 26th, we learned about the power of adding clinical pharmacists to the care team for both significantly enhancing patient outcomes and redu...

08/14/2021

Please get vaccinated to stop dangerous variants from killing more people. Our health workers & their families are put at grave risk from the unvaccinated & are overwhelmed & exhausted.

Experts stress testing, vaccination amid delta surge

10/15/2020

Surgeon General VADM Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H., issued a Call to Action urging Americans to recognize and address hypertension control as a national public health priority. The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Control Hypertension provides strategies for those on the frontlines of health care and public health to address this costly, dangerous and far too common chronic health condition.

Link:https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/docs/SG-CTA-HTN-Control-Report.pdf

04/16/2020

Patients with pre-existing CVD who have contracted COVID-19 are about 10% more likely to die, compared to only 1% of otherwise healthy patients. Currently, there are no special protocols for higher-risk cardiac patients to prevent COVID-19 exposure. These individuals should be especially careful to follow the CDC recommendations, including frequent hand washing and social distancing!

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-does-cardiovascular-disease-increase-the-risk-of-severe-illness-and-death-from-covid-19-2020040219401

Initial investigation into COVID-19 focused on its respiratory effects, but a more recent report describes serious cardiovascular complications in people with pre-existing heart disease. How does this underlying condition increase risk for these people?

04/13/2020

Please join us at 12PM today for our Virtual University of Best Practices. We will have healthcare leaders across California present on the Cardiovascular Aspects of COVID-19 & Including Pharmacist on the Care Team. We will conclude our meeting with Health System Perspectives on COVID-19.

You can view the live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGH0r1xvRYw&feature=youtu.be

03/24/2020

Without social distancing, one infected person can infect 20,000 people within 4 to 6 weeks. If we stop interacting, the virus cannot spread person to person and we have a chance to stop it according to the physician leadership of Sutter Health, one of the largest and most sophisticated health systems in the country. Please take the time to watch this video filled with helpful tips for you, your family, and friends.

An Open Letter from M.D.s By: Warren Browner, M.D., MPH and Stephen Lockhart, M.D., PhDAs physicians, we want you to know why we are so concerned about the novel coronavirus/COVID-19. Some of you may have heard that it’s a minor inconvenience, like a bad cold. So far, that’s true for the majorit...

02/14/2020

Let's take care of our hearts this Valentine's Day by taking the Valentine's Pledge to make healthy changes in our daily lives! Check out this article we published today in the San Jose Mercury News!

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/14/opinion-new-era-in-heart-attack-and-stroke-prevention-makes-valentines-brighter-for-families/

A Valentine’s Day pledge: Let’s all work to prevent heart attacks and strokes starting at home.

12/12/2019

Thank you, Dr. Betsy Thompson, for leading our 11th Right Care Initiative Clinical Outcomes Improvement Leadership Summit. Your leadership and expertise made the event a success. Thank you for all you do in our mutual mission to save lives!

12/11/2019

Thank you Leadership, Innovation, and Clinical Performance Awardees for your outstanding contribution to meet our mutual goal of Getting Toward Zero Preventable Deaths and Disabilities from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes! Five amazing leaders were gifted with the following awards at out 11th Annual Clinical Improvement and Leadership Summit held on Monday November 18, 2019.

Dr. Joseph Sky was awarded the Public Service Leadership Award for Precision Heart Attack & Stroke Prevention Deploying Advanced Computing, Ancient Wisdom & Holistic Shared Decision Making.

Dr. Nirali Vora was awarded the Young Leadership Award for Innovations to Slash Stroke Disability and Death.

Dr. Parag Agnihotri was awarded the Multi-Community Innovative Leadership Award for Getting Toward Zero Deaths and Disabilities from Diabetes, Heart Attacks and Strokes.

Dr. Stephen Sidney was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership of the CARDIA Study illuminating the Importance of Coronary Artery Calcium Plaque in the Young for Triage.

Dr. William J. Bommer was awarded with the Community Leadership Award for Leaning Forward with Implementation Action to Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes.

Thank you once again for all that you do in our mutual effort to Get Toward Zero deaths and disabilities from Diabetes, Heart Attacks,and Strokes. Congratulations to our award winners!

12/10/2019

11th Right Care Clinical Improvement and Leadership Summit Awardees.