News & Events at Kaiser Permanente East Bay
Visitor Policy for Flu Season
The Amazing Race Across America
East Bay Physicians featured in Oakland Magazine’s best doctors list
Pinole Medical Offices Grand Opening
Visitor Policy for Flu Season
Oakland Medical Center employees join the "Amazing Race Across America"
Are you ready to talk the talk and walk the walk? Our employees are!
Our employees are participating in an employee wellness program to increase physical activity awareness and engage in a bit of friendly competition. Our employee teams are "walking" across the USA- virtually, that is. With the help of pedometers, individuals are aiming for 10,000 steps per day, which is five miles a day, most days of the week. Although this is a medical center competition, we encourage our members to set their own goals and increase physical activity everyday. You learn more about simple and easy ways to get more steps in your day, or create your own 10,000 steps activity program at our Fitness page on kp.org.
East Bay Physicians featured in Oakland Magazine’s best doctors list
Once again, East Bay’s academic excellence was recognized with 31 of its physicians listed in Oakland Magazine’s Best Doctors List, two featured in full interviews. East Bay physicians David Walton, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology department, and Ted Tsukayama, MD, Internal Medicine department, were profiled in the “East Bay’s Best Doctors” article in Oakland Magazine’s December issue. The East Bay physicians below also made the list for 2008.
How did these doctors make the list? Best Doctors, Inc., a company founded by Harvard University School of Medicine, consulted with doctors across the country on who’s best in their field. Congratulations go out to:
Ralph Brindis, MD, Cardiology
Ananse Taharka, MD, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine
Cynthia Morton, MD, Gastroenterology
Jed Ira Weissberg, MD, Gastroenterology
Roger,Baxter, MD, Infectious Disease
Michael Clement, MD, Internal Medicine
Eric Lipsitt, MD, Internal Medicine
Mary Patton, MD, Internal Medicine
Kate Scannell, MD, Internal Medicine
Victor Silvestre, MD, Internal Medicine
Wilson, Tse, MD, Internal Medicine
SusanWakerlin, MD, Internal Medicine
Joseph Young, MD, Internal Medicine
RonaldBachman, MD, Genetics (retired)
John G.Zovickian, MD, Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurosurgery
Ann Eastman, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Janie D. Hirata, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Barry M. Rasgon, MD, Otolaryngology
GregoryRumore, MD, Pathology
Jorge A. Gutierrez Jr., MD, Pediatric Critical Care
Rama Devi Pullela, MD, Pediatric Critical Care
Catherine A. Egli, MD, Pediatric Endocrinology
Yvette C. Fan, MD, Pediatrics
Sheldon Orloff, MD, Pediatrics
Dachling Pang, MD, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Todd L. Lincoln, MD, Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery
Gregory F. Shay, MD, Pediatric Pulmonology
Jean Hayward, MD, Pediatrics
Paul Radosevich, MD, Radiology
Kelly O’Neal, MD, Surgery
Christopher M. Ceraldi, MD, Vascular Surgery
Pinole Medical Offices Grand Opening
In January 20009, the official grand opening celebration for the Pinole Medical office building was held and attended by approximately 1,000 people. Despite the crowd and numerous activities the new MOB saw its first patients that same day.
The first patient seen at the new MOB was 70-year-old Jaime Pineda. A very satisfied patient for the past 11 years, Mr. Pineda (whose personal physician is none other than Pinole Site Chief David Velek, MD) was thrilled to follow Dr. Velek to Pinole from Richmond. The excitement of the day was the culmination of years of planning and preparation by staff, administration, and physicians.
“For the past two years, the Transition Team has done an incredible job of working on every detail of the opening to ensure a smooth transition from Richmond, and a seamless experience for members,” says East Bay MGA Shirley Steinback. We’re so pleased we could expand into the Pinole area, and bring our unique integrated model of quality outpatient care closer to where many West Contra Costa members live and work. By doing so, we also ease the congestion at Richmond Medical Center and provide a better experience for our members there.
The 61,800-square-foot facility at the crossroads of Pinole Valley Road and I-80 offers Adult Medicine, Family Practice, Ob/Gyn, and Pediatrics, and houses a Lab, Imaging, Health Education, and Pharmacy. Emergency services are not available at the location; but are offered at Oakland and Richmond Medical Centers. Labor and delivery is available at Oakland.
As the facility was built to ease congestion at the Richmond Medical Center and to offer more convenient access to members near Pinole, the opening redistributes existing positions and there will not be any new positions immediately available.
