GREEN BAY – The city’s first residency program for family physicians has already attracted over 150 student applicants with interviews starting this week.
That’s a good sign for organizers from a local health care system and the Medical College of Wisconsin, who say they launched the program to help solve a doctor shortage in northeastern Wisconsin.
Prevea Health/Hospital Sisters Health System has long identified residency programs as a way to address the shortage. With baby boomers aging, hospital systems nationwide had been working to prepare for a surge in demand for medical services.
“Recruitment to future positions in Green Bay is very important given the nationwide provider shortage that we’ve seen for many years and will continue to see,” said Dr. Ashok Rai, president and CEO of Prevea Health/HSHS.
Studies have shown there’s a higher likelihood that somebody will stay in the town where they completed their residency, he said.
“That’s even more likely than the town that they went to medical school in,” Rai said.
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As Prevea looks for physicians, primary care is a major concern for the future, and family medicine is one of its largest specialties in primary care. Family medicine residents also have a higher likelihood of working in rural areas as well as suburban and smaller urban communities like Green Bay, Rai said.
Prevea expects residents to be prepared to work in a variety of fields and settings, including in rural clinics. Training in Green Bay also will allow residents to serve in Prevea’s clinics north of the Green Bay area.
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President and CEO of Prevea Health Ashok Rai. (Photo: Ebony Cox/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
The residency program will begin July 1, 2021 and will train four family medicine residents per year for three years. A total of 12 physicians will be trained by 2024. The program will accept applicants until Nov. 18.
The Medical College of Wisconsin is partnering with Prevea for the program. The program’s director, Dr. Manal Soliman, is associate professor of family and community medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Accreditation and hiring for the residency program happened during the pandemic, and the accreditation process had to be virtual. Rai expressed hope that residents will not need many pandemic-specific skills next July when they start practicing.
However, residents’ perspective will likely be changed because of the pandemic. He looks forward to hearing about what students have learned during the COVID-19 outbreaks and how they will apply these lessons in their residency and practice.
“It’s going to be the most unique time in modern history to train to be a physician because of the stresses, both physical and mental, but also the demonstrated resiliency of our profession,” Rai said.
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When San Francisco CrossFit co-founders Kelly and Juliet Starrett reopened their gym outdoors this summer, they had to adapt the handshakes that usually start each class for the pandemic. Handshakes were verboten, of course, but members of the city’s first CrossFit gym — one of the first two dozen or so worldwide — would tap elbows or wave before the workout began, a small gesture that spoke to a larger culture of inclusion and community.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Laura Pennington trains at San Francisco CrossFit.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Yasmen Mehta (left), a CrossFit coach, instructs Chloe Le of San Francisco as she uses a kettlebell.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Laura Pennington of San Francisco uses a kettlebell at San Francisco CrossFit. The business started in the parking lot of Sports Basement in the Presidio.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Mason Tuller lifts weights as he works out at at San Francisco CrossFit. San Francisco is moving to restrict gyms’ indoor capacity again.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Yasmen Mehta, a CrossFit coach, talks about the Workout of the Day, or WOD, at San Francisco CrossFit.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Shannon King (left) uses a kettlebell in a class at San Francisco CrossFit. The gym helped popularize CrossFit and inspired many other Bay Area fitness businesses.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
Lisa Khouri (front) of San Francisco uses a rowing machine during a San Francisco CrossFit class with coach Yasmen Mehta. The famous gym will close Sunday.
S.F. CrossFit is closing. Here’s what Bay Area fitness culture is losing
A mask hangs on a stanchion. San Francisco CrossFit has moved classes outside, but that hasn’t been enough to save the business.
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Before people began squatting or sprinting, the ritual was a way of forcing them to see each other. “People are looking for reasons to belong to each other, but they need a catalyst for that,” Kelly Starrett said. “Our gym gave us that opportunity to do that.”
But the challenges of operating in 2020 — the reopening fits and starts, the strict limits on capacity, the dramatic drop in revenue as people left the gym or left town — proved too much for the couple and their business. On Sunday, Nov. 15, the gym will hold its final WOD, or workout of the day, then close permanently.
Before CrossFit was a household name and the CrossFit Games aired on CBS, Kelly and Juliet Starrett started doing deadlifts, burpees and thrusters in their Richmond District backyard. Both are former competitive whitewater paddlers (Juliet was a two-time world champion), and Kelly, a physical therapist,
Doctor AJ Salman BDS, FICCDE, owner and founder of Northmed Dental, is delighted to announce the opening of his second dental clinic, which is due to open on the 17th of November at 512 East Coast Road, Windsor Park, Auckland 0630, New Zealand.
New Zealand – Doctor AJ Salman BDS, FICCDE, owner and founder of Northmed Dental, is delighted to announce the opening of his second dental clinic, which is due to open on the 17th of November at 512 East Coast Road, Windsor Park, Auckland 0630, New Zealand.
Doctor Salman grew up in Auckland’s East Coast Bays, and fell in love with the area and its residents. His plan was always to return there one day to open a dental clinic, and today marks the fulfillment of that dream.
Doctor Salman knew that he wanted to be a dentist from the age of ten and worked hard to achieve his goals. He applied to study dentistry at the University of Otago, which at the time was the number 9 ranked university in the world. Despite extremely tough competition, he was accepted and eventually asked to represent the students as the President of the New Zealand Dental Student Association. Having successfully completed his qualifications and winning two awards along the way, Doctor Salman opened a dental clinic in Auckland, Northcote. However, his ambition and dream was always to return to the bays and open a dental clinic in this location.
The second clinic will offer general and cosmetic dental services including Invisalign orthodontics, teeth whitening services and the fitting of porcelain veneers. The clinic will offer services to anyone from the age of 13 up, with a strong focus on the treatment of teenagers’ teeth and jaw structure development. Dr Salman is determined to become the number one provider of quality general and cosmetic dentistry around Auckland.
“I am really excited to be returning to the Mairangi Bay area and fulfilling my dream of opening a dental clinic there,” said Doctor Salman of Northmed Dental. “I feel both honoured and blessed to have achieved this, and I am now focused on building the practice and serving the local community, that means so much to me. One of the best parts of my job is taking on difficult makeover cases, which other professionals have refused. Being able to witness the transformation in my patients’ looks and confidence is the most rewarding aspect of my job. I can’t wait to get started and look forward to meeting old friends and making new ones as the practice grows.”
Northmed Dental is a locally owned and operated business based in Mairangi Bay Auckland. The company has invested in the latest technical equipment, and advanced dental technology, to ensure that they provide the best possible experience and results for their clients. As residents of Auckland’s North Shore, and having grown up in the local community, Dr Salman and his team are committed to excellent customer service and providing first-class dental treatment.
Dubai, UAE: Dubai Retail, the retail management arm of Dubai Holding, has partnered with Dubai Fitness Challenge (DFC) and select tenants to support visitors at Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) and Bay Avenue, two of its prime destinations, during the annual celebration of fitness which encourages the pursuit of an active lifestyle through 30 minutes of activity daily for 30 days.
In line with DFC’s aim to make the UAE “the most active country in the world”, JBR and Bay Avenue have joined this year’s ‘City is a Gym’ initiative, providing free workouts via the DFC flagpole. Workouts provided by top Dubai trainers including Yasmin Baker, Samia Kallidis and Domia Economides are available simply by scanning the QR code on the flagpole.
Weekly fitness activations have also been scheduled for Friday mornings at Dubai’s premier beachfront destination, The Walk at JBR, in partnership with UFC Gym, the trailblazer of MMA-inspired fitness. The free 45-minute classes will take place at 9am on November 13 and 20 at the UFC Gym venue. Registration is mandatory, and bookings can be made by calling 800 UFCGYM. Visitors are required to bring their own towels, mats and water in line with precautionary measures.
To offer additional encouragement, selected retail and F&B outlets in Bay Avenue and JBR are serving up some amazing discounts to visitors who can prove their 30-minute workout on any fitness tracking device. WOFL in JBR is offering 30% discount on their entire menu while at Bay Avenue, Kcal, Café Funkie Town, and Tangerine Restaurant are offering 30% discount, while Zaatar w Zeit (15%), and West Zone Fresh (16%) are also getting in on the act with discounts.
Anyone who catches the fitness bug will be eligible for 30% discount on a membership at GFX, the premier fitness destination in the heart of Bay Avenue. Participants looking for some post-workout pampering can visit Nstyle, Belle Femme and Sisters Beauty Salon, who are all offering a minimum of 20% off. Other retailers in Bay Avenue offering 30% off to fitness fans are Car Fare, Phone to Go Electronics and Fabiani Shoes Trading. Terms and conditions apply.
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About Dubai Retail
Dubai Retail, the retail management arm of Dubai Holding, focuses on developing, operating and managing the company’s extensive range of strategically located retail assets across prime destinations and communities. This primarily supports the growth and expansion of local and global retail partners through the delivery of holistic, convenient and diverse retail solutions. With a retail footprint spanning two million square feet, its 13 mixed-use properties comprise over 1,000 multi-format units across eight key locations in the city.
The company’s differentiated portfolio incorporates Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR), a premier beachfront attraction, Souk Madinat Jumeirah, one of Dubai’s most sought-after tourist destinations, and Jumeirah Emirates Towers, situated in the heart of the city’s financial hub, as well as Bay Avenue and Bay Square in Business Bay. Its community centres cater to a wide catchment within popular suburban districts, such as Mudon, Al Waha and Layan in
As coronavirus cases surge across the country, Bay Area health directors are concerned about the impact of the upcoming holiday travel season on virus spread in a region that has generally kept the pandemic under control.
Marin County Public Health Officer Matt Willis said the health directors meet twice a week and on Thursday they will discuss whether to implement a 14-day quarantine for visitors from states with high rates of infections and residents who travel to these states and then return. If implemented, Willis said it would most likely be a “strong recommendation” and not an order.
“I want to be clear, it’s a conversation. We haven’t made a decision,” Willis said. “This is a well-established tool for containing COVID-19 spread, when the gradient gets low enough inside compared to those on the outside. That’s a conversation you might expect us to have.”
The city and county of San Francisco also confirmed that a decision hasn’t been made on whether to introduce a quarantine restriction.
“The Bay Area health directors have been communicating and working together since the onset of the pandemic, including coordination of the shelter in place announcement,” read a statement from the city’s COVID command center. “During the course of these discussions, many policies and protocols are discussed, including upcoming travel during the holiday season.”
Daily infections are rising in all but three states, but the surge is most pronounced in the Midwest and Southwest.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota and New Mexico all reported record high hospitalizations this week. Nebraska’s largest hospitals started limiting elective surgeries and looked to bring in nurses from other states to cope with the surge. Hospital officials in Iowa and Missouri warned bed capacity could soon be overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, the Bay Area generally has the virus under control with only Sonoma County still in the most-restrictive purple tier in the state’s system for reopening. Solano County is in the second-worst red category. All other counties are orange, the tier when the virus spread is considered moderate, except for San Francisco, which is in the least-restrictive yellow tier, marked by minimal transmission.
San Francisco has a positivity rate of 0.8% while Marin County is at 1%.
“We are now lower incident than many other areas,” Willis said. “We’re seeing dramatic increases outside the state. We have made a lot of progress regionally. As hard as it is to reduce incidents, it’s hard to maintain those gains, especially as you’re seeing surges in other states.”
Many other states have introduced similar requirements. New York, for example, requires a 14-day quarantine or a negative COVID-19 test for out-of-state travelers.
People eat while sitting at a vista point by the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, Calif. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press)
San Francisco Bay Area residents who travel out of state this holiday season to visit family and friends may be met with a 14-day quarantine advisory when they return.
A group of public health officers from across the Bay Area — including the large cities of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland — are considering implementing the coronavirus quarantine as pandemic fatigue continues to drive travel outside the area, Marin County Public Health Officer Matt Willis said Tuesday.
The proposal will likely be a “strong recommendation,” not an order, Willis said. If adopted widely, the decision could affect the region’s more than 7 million residents, as well as potentially millions more who might travel to the area.
Once a hot spot for coronavirus infections, the Bay Area is now in much better shape than most of the U.S. and has largely avoided the “third wave” plaguing other states. San Francisco’s positive coronavirus test rate was 0.8% at the end of October, making it the lowest rate of the 20 most populous cities across the U.S., according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. It also has the lowest death rate per capita from COVID-19 of those same 20 cities.
Marin County’s rate of positive coronavirus test results is about 1%, according to the most recent county data. The county is currently in Tier 3, or the orange tier, of the state’s color-coded reopening blueprint, which means prevalence of the virus is moderate. A number of the region’s counties are in either the orange tier or the yellow, which is the least restrictive.
That means there’s a lot to lose, Willis said.
“Everyone has worked really hard to reduce the transmission and lower case rates,” he said, “and the question is, how do we hold on to those gains.”
With colder weather moving activities indoors and more businesses reopening, and with the upcoming holiday season and the election, “there’s a lot coming together that makes us vulnerable in the remainder of the year,” Willis said, “and the last thing we need is for people to be importing the virus from outside.”
Once a traveler quarantines for the specified time and shows no symptoms, they can resume regular activities, Willis said. There’s a possibility that a traveler could take a coronavirus test within a shorter time frame, perhaps five to seven days after a trip, but he said the science was still out on whether the person would need to quarantine for an additional week.
A decision on a quarantine advisory for travelers could come as early as Thursday, Willis said. That day, the Assn. of Bay Area Health Officers — made up of health officials from San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Benito and Marin counties, as well as the city of Berkeley, which has its own health department —
With U.S. infection rates spiking and a far more modest uptick in California, the Bay Area on Friday enacted additional, hard-charging measures to corral COVID-19: San Francisco hit the brakes on reopening, and Santa Clara County sought a legal order against a church that has been flouting restrictions on indoor gatherings.
Meanwhile, in Southern California, state officials unveiled a swiftly built lab that officials say will double the state’s already substantial coronavirus-testing capacity by spring.
Taken together, the day’s actions underscored California’s resolve to manage the pandemic aggressively, even as other states loosen restrictions and struggle with viral transmission.
San Francisco, which has the lowest positivity rate of any major metropolitan area in the country, announced its rollback of some recent reopening moves amid worrisome indicators, including increases in hospitalizations and infections. Just two weeks ago, the city had moved into the yellow tier on the state’s reopening matrix, the least restrictive level.
Friday’s pivot means that restaurants previously approved to expand to 50% indoor capacity will have to stick to the current 25% occupancy, as will indoor places of worship, museums, zoos, aquariums and movie theaters. Plans to allow indoor pools and bowling alleys have been removed from the city’s reopening trajectory for now.
“The last thing we want to do is go backward,” Mayor London Breed said in a news conference Friday. “The last thing we want to do is tell a business or a school that they can open, then tell them they have to close. So we’re proceeding with caution.”
In the South Bay, Santa Clara County officials announced that they had filed suit in Superior Court to stop Calvary Chapel San Jose from holding indoor services. The church had signaled early on during the pandemic that it was not going to abide county restrictions, instead taking guidance from President Donald Trump’s declarations that in-church worship was an essential function.
In a similar clash with North Valley Baptist in Santa Clara, piles of fines and the threat of a court injunction prompted the church to back down and switch to outdoor services. For Calvary Chapel, fines that reached $350,000 did not deter the services, prompting county officials to ask a judge to make them change their ways.
The church has deemed the move “a request to crush the Church’s constitutional rights” while acknowledging many of the allegations regarding its flouting of the rules. In a legal filing, the defendants argued that their activities are not a genuine threat because they have not been linked to an outbreak. They also noted that crowded police-brutality protests over the summer got no such enforcement scrutiny.
But Dr. Arthur Reingold, division head of epidemiology and biostatistics at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, wrote in a declaration supporting the county’s court filing that a church outbreak could just be a matter of time without compliance to health protocols.
Reingold wrote that the risks of COVID-19 transmission from large indoor gatherings are already high and that “adding activities like singing,
Solano is currently in the red tier in the state of California’s reopening plan, but officials said case rates are increasing and the county could be moved back to the more restrictive purple tier indicating widespread infection.
The county is urging residents to wear face coverings, maintain 6 feet of distance and avoid large gatherings.
Dr. Bela Matyas, the county’s health officer, told KCBS Radio that county residents have recently held several large gatherings, including a funeral with more than 300 people, a wedding and an event at a private ranch attended by dozens.
“In all these situations people were in close contact and not social distancing,” Matyas said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s system sorts counties into four tiers — “purple” (widespread), “red” (substantial), “orange” (moderate) or “yellow” (minimal) — that measure the spread of COVID-19 and dictate what types of businesses and activities are allowed to open. The structure allows counties to be more restrictive and move more slowly than the state in its reopening if they wish.
The county tier status is based on the number of new cases per 100,000 residents and the adjusted positivity rate. This month, the state announced it’s now also taking into account an equity metric to address the fact that low-income, Latino, Black and Pacific Islander communities have been disproportionately impacted.
Each county is assigned its tier every Tuesday, and a county must remain in a tier for 21 consecutive days before moving to the next one. To move forward, a county must meet the next tier’s criteria for 14 consecutive days. A county can move backward by failing to meet the criteria for two consecutive weeks, or if state officials see a rapid rise in hospitalizations.
If Solano were to fall back into the purple tier, restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, and places of worship would no longer be able to host people indoors.
California has a blueprint for reducing COVID-19 in the state: Here’s a look at the color-coded tier sytem with criteria for loosening and tightening restrictions on activities.
https://covid19.ca.gov/safer-economy/
As cases rise in the Solano County, the Department of Health and Social Services reported the first flu and COVID-19 co-infection in a person in the county.
The infected individual is under the age of 65 and Bela told CBS this person works in the healthcare sector though transmission didn’t occur at work.
“This person, to the best of our knowledge, didn’t acquire it in the workplace. They did what so many other people did all over the country: they got together with family and friends and let their guard down,” Matyas said.
The incident is a reminder for residents to get their flu shots, he said.
“With the likelihood of both COVID-19 and seasonal flu activity this winter, contracting either disease may weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to the other disease,” said Matyas said in a statement. “Getting a flu vaccine this year is more important than ever, and flu vaccines are the best way to
STANFORD, Calif., Oct. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Stanford University School of Medicine today announced the launch of the Community Alliance to Test Coronavirus at Home (CATCH) Study, an effort that seeks to estimate the true population prevalence of COVID-19 across the 8.5 million population of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and ultimately aid in the effort to reopen schools, workplaces and communities.
The CATCH Study is now seeking participants. A key aim of the CATCH Study is to scale a simple, safe, convenient, and population-scale early diagnostic system to help stop further undetected spread of COVID-19. CATCH utilizes online surveys and home delivered self-collection kits that are able to be rapidly deployed to carry out remote testing in a broad and representative sample of the population, including those underserved and vulnerable populations that might otherwise not be reached or tested. The study is enabled by the Vera Cloud Testing Platform including its novel Vera Home Test Kit, a gentle nasal swab self-collection kit that can be delivered directly to the homes of study participants by existing couriers and package delivery services.
There is no cost to CATCH Study participation, and all residents in the San Francisco Bay Area are welcome to enroll. Every participant joins online, reports their symptoms and exposures to COVID-19 daily, and may also be offered a home test kit at no cost upon reporting. If accepted, within 24 hours a home test kit will be delivered safely and conveniently by express courier to their home, where they can self-collect a sample, which is then delivered to the Stanford Health Care laboratory and tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection. All tested participants are informed of their results privately and securely online via their personal password-protected account within the CATCH website. The unique approach removes any requirement to leave home or shelter-in-place.
The study is being led by Stanford Medicine researchers Yvonne Maldonado, MD, professor of pediatric infectious diseases and of health research and policy, Lorene Nelson, MD, associate professor of health research and policy, as well as Dr. Stephen Quake, professor of bioengineering and of applied physics and co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
“We encourage as many Bay Area residents as possible to sign-up for the CATCH Study to help increase our knowledge of a virus that has had significant impacts on our communities,” said Dr. Maldonado. “Our main objective is to learn where and how the virus is spreading — whether people are displaying symptoms or not — and which communities are most vulnerable. These insights will help our scientists and local public officials gain a deeper understanding of the distribution of COVID-19 throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area so that they can stop its spread.”
With the effects of COVID-19 disproportionately affecting minority and vulnerable communities throughout the country, and specifically in the Bay Area, one of the key intentions of the study is to address inequities in testing by researching underserved populations. The testing kits will provide
UC San Francisco released a preliminary analysis Thursday of data from a coronavirus testing effort in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood and it confirmed what other similar studies have found: The novel coronavirus disproportionately affects the Latino community.
UCSF, in conjunction with local community groups, offered free, voluntary COVID-19 testing Sept. 26 and 27 in Fruitvale, a corner of Alameda County that has had the highest rates of COVID. Fruitvale is 50% Latino and home to one of the largest Mayan-speaking populations outside of Mexico, according to UCSF. Many residents live in multigenerational households.
Nearly 2,000 people were tested for either active infection or antibodies.
A total of 1,099 people were tested for active infection with nose swabs, and of those, 4% tested positive (29 adults and 10 children).
Of those with coronavirus, 95% were Latino, though they represented 62% of individuals tested, according to UCSF.
Of the 859 individuals (803 adults and 56 children) who were tested for the COVID-19 antibody, 10% were positive, suggesting past infection. Latino individuals had a positivity rate of 12% and those of Mayan heritage 27%.
At a Friday morning press conference, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called the study results “disturbing but not unexpected data” revealing the health disparities in the city. “And let’s be honest, in the world,” she added.
“Our data further identifies the Mam speaking, Mayan population as particularly high risk within the Latino community,” Dr. Alicia Fernandez, a professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence, said in a statement. “More testing and targeted public health messaging are needed, as are efforts to make essential work safer.”
Researchers also gathered data to examine the overall impact of the pandemic and found 25% of Latinos who received a nose swab test have seen a reduction in income, 15% have lost their jobs and 42% face food insecurity. Sixty-one percent of Mam (Mayan) speakers said they were food insecure.
“It is not new that we are the underserved and one of the most vulnerable groups in the area, and now with COVID-19 we are facing an even greater crisis especially with access to health services, housing, food and financial support. That is why we are here today, we are here to ask for more testing and assistance with essential needs,” Rosendo Aguilar, Fruitvale community member and Mam speaker, said in a statement.
UCSF study conducted a similar effort in San Francisco’s Mission District in April and found 95% of positive individuals were of Latino heritage.
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