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April 28, 2020
FROM MAHEC:
MAHEC family physicians and opioid treatment educators Blake Fagan, Shuchin Shukla, and Susan McDowell, have recently joined the Opioid Response Network (ORN) as prescriber consultants to assist healthcare providers in implementing office-based services for the prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder.
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April 27, 2020
Q: Please introduce yourself and The Family Health Centers- Asheville:
A: Jeffrey B Graham, MD MPH with The Family Health Centers. We have been in Asheville since 1976 and are one of the largest physician-owned family practices in NC/SC. We offer full spectrum primary care, which has shifted a lot in the last couple decades so I am proud of our consistent growth over time. We have several specialists on board including a strong pediatric team so we are able to offer a wide range of specialized medical care. We have three offices in Asheville, Arden, and Hominy Valley.
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April 6, 2020
Dear WCMS Membership,
Over the past few months, the world has seen changes the likes of which have never been experienced in most of our lifetimes. We have watched with trepidation as the coronavirus has slowly infiltrated into one county after another in Western NC and wondered if we and our patients would be spared the level of pain and suffering we see on the news every night.
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April 2, 2020
Dear WCMS membership:
Dr. Mike Parmer, President of WCMS, has accepted a new position in Greenville SC with the Prisma Health System. For this reason, Dr. Parmer will no longer be serving as the President of the WCMS Association effective today, 4/1/20. Dr. Parmer has been an outstanding leader and champion of the medical society. His integrity, wisdom and guidance will be greatly missed. We wish him all the best.
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March 23, 2020
Dr. Coulson works at MAHEC OB/GYN and is the Chair of the WCMS Foundation's Board of Directors
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February 24, 2020
1. Please introduce yourself (background/education/experience/current organization & role, etc.)
I grew up in a rural area of Southwest Virginia, drawing me towards rural health throughout my career. I’ve also always been interested in tobacco topics because I knew people whose parents were tobacco farmers and my hometown was greatly impacted by tobacco. I even had a friend who went to college on a tobacco scholarship designed to assist residents of the tobacco region in obtaining levels of education previously not promoted or available in the region
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February 24, 2020
Now more than ever as health care rapidly evolves, we need clinicians to step up as leaders to safeguard the quality of patient care and to protect the profession of medicine. The KIPL Leadership College Program is a nationally renowned, project-based curriculum designed to foster your leadership skills so that you can have a positive impact in your workplace and your community. Established in 2003, the Leadership College has graduated over 500 participants, the majority of whom go on to take leadership positions within their profession and/or other organizations. Learn more about the program and apply today — enrollment is limited.
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February 5, 2020
Heart Path® is a Mission Health service that is a state and nationally certified, comprehensive program of cardiac rehabilitation. It helps patients look at risk factors that cause heart disease and design a plan of care to lower their risks for future heart problems.
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January 30, 2020
Thank you all who came out to our 2020 Annual Celebration on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at New Belgium Brewery! It was a very well attended event with over 150 WCMS members, employees, community advocates, partners, and sponsors present. We shared our 2019 successes and plans for 2020 and we look forward to working with you all again this year. Thank you again for a successful event!
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January 21, 2020
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (January 15th, 2020) - Informational meetings led by Gibbins Advisors have been scheduled in seven communities in Western North Carolina served by Mission Health.
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January 16, 2020
A grant awarded to the WCMS Interpreter Network (WIN) in 2019 will continue providing free interpreter services to Project Access (PA) patients in 2020.
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January 8, 2020
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Terminology
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Opioid is the umbrella term for semi-synthetics, synthetics (phetnel), and opiates (poppy derived like heroin, hydrocodone)
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Opioid addiction is now called “Opioid Use Disorder” (OUD)
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OUD is a chronic, relapsing disease
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December 16, 2019
On Thursday, December 12, 2019, WCMS hosted a Women in Medicine Affinity Group meeting sponsored by Sona Pharmacy at Asheville Community Yoga and Karma Cafe with Dr. Robyn Tiger.
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November 19, 2019
Q: Please describe a brief history of Integrative Family Medicine:
A: My business partner, Brian Lewis, and I had a goal to create an accessible clinic that took an integrative approach to primary care. We quickly realized that such clinics did not exist. The integrative clinics that did exist were often out of reach financially for many patients. We also saw many independently owned primary care practices struggling to remain solvent and being taken over by big hospital systems. We wanted to create something that could serve patients financially and offer a better overall healthcare experience for them as well as provide a model for physicians of something alternative to the fee-for-service insurance based system.
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November 7, 2019
On 11/4/19, the WCMS Association Board listened to a presentation by Dr. David Mouw and Steffi Rausch (head of Asheville Citizens’ Climate Lobby) on climate change and the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 763. After much discussion, the Board unanimously concurred that the impact of climate change on health is a public health crisis and moved to act as an organization by endorsing the bill.
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