IN THE NEWS: California is in the midst of a whooping cough epidemic and infants too young to be vaccinated are most vulnerable to this disease, also known as pertussis. To protect them, the state health department, as well as the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the American College…
The University of California, Irvine Medical Center has been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. UC Irvine was recognized as part of The Joint Commission’s 2014 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving…
UCI Health has received the Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for excellence in stroke care. This designation signifies that UCI Health has achieved the goal of delivering prompt, appropriate stroke treatment that saves lives and reduces the likelihood…
The spotlight may be on the deadly Ebola virus, but UCI Health experts want to remind people to protect themselves against a far more common and dangerous agent: seasonal influenza. Unlike Ebola, there is an effective vaccine for influenza that is widely available as fall marks the onset of the…
Susan M. O’Brien, MD, one of the nation’s foremost leukemia experts, will be joining UCI Health as Associate Director for Clinical Science for the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Medical Director of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials and Research. Her appointment is effective Jan…
IN THE NEWS: Through November, UCI Health is offering eligible veterans free low-dose computed tomography lung cancer screening. The Orange County Register followed veteran Sal Yniguez during his exam with Dr. Mohsen Davoudi. Veterans are in one of the highest risk groups for lung cancer: As he grows older, Yniguez…
Medical specialists may be invaluable when you tackle a formidable disease, but your best partner to prevent serious health problems in the first place is an expert primary care physician. With the opening this week of new primary care centers in Orange and Tustin, UCI Health offers patients easy access…
Four physicians with long-standing ties to the community have joined UCI Health Medical Group – Orange to deliver world-class primary care from their new office at 293 S. Main Street, Suite 200. Elizabeth Ruiz, the first patient at the new location, has been seeing internal medicine physician Dr. Dennis Long…
When UCI Health – Tustin opened its doors for the first time this week, the setting was new, but the doctor-patient relationships were well-established. “I’ve been a patient of Dr. Sodaro’s for 15 years,” said Carl Gabrielson, the first patient at the new primary care office, located at 1451 Irvine…
UCI Health is observing Veterans Day by offering free lung cancer screenings throughout November to eligible veterans who are in high-risk categories. Veterans are in one of the highest risk groups for lung cancer. Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, and a history of smoking…
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