Employee of the week

The Department of Family Medicine Congratulate Jose Lebron for being nominated "The Family Medicine Employee of the Week".  Lebron has displayed:

1.  A cordial attitude towards patients and co-workers

2.  Aptitude of conflict resolution

3.  Ability to direct individual accomplishments towards organizational objectives

4.  Excellent team work skills.

Thank you Lebron, we appreciate your hard work and dedication!!!

Employee of the week

Please join the Department in Congratulating Eva Albino for being nominated "The Family Medicine Employee of the Week".  Eva has displayed:

1.  A positive attitude towards patients and co-worker.

2.  Flexibility in response to a demanding schedule and work load.

3.  Excellent team work skills

Thank you Eva, we appreciate your hard work and dedication.

Welcome New Faculty

We Would like to welcome the following New Faculty members to the Department of Family Medicine Attending  Physician Team:

Padma Jagarlamudi, M.D.

Reddi Vijaya, M.D.

Employee of the Week

One of the quotes from the greatest philosopher Aristotle says "In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action"

Please join the Department in Congratuating Eric Luten, Registrar, Ogden Family Health Center for being nominated "The Family Medicine Employee of the Week"

Indeed Eric has demostrated the secret of joy in work and is contained in one word- excellence.  To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.  His efforts should not be un-noticed but most certainly be applauded and duplicated!!!

He has displayed:

1)  Initiative and assertiveness

2)  Leadership

3)  Excellent team work skills

Thank you Eric, we appreciate your hard work and dedication!!!

Employee of the week

"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces"--Thomas Aquinas

Please join the department in congratulating Tamara Jervis, PCT, Fulton Family Health Center for being nominated "The Family Medicine Employee of the Week"

Indeed Tamara has desmostrated that excellence is not a skill.  It is attitude.  She has showed us that Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.  We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.  We are what we repeatedly do.  As a result, Tamara's interaction with her patients should not be un-noticed but certainly be applauded and duplicated!!!!

She has displayed & created:

1.  Excellent team work skills

2.  Initiative and assertiveness

3.  Leadership

4.  Friendly user environment

Thank you Tamara, we appreciate your hard work and dedication!!! 

Employee of the week

John W. Gardner said: "Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Please join the department in congratulating Michael Frasch, LPN, in the Wellness Department for being nominated "The Family Medicine Employee of the Week".

Indeed Michael has demonstrated that in coming together, sharing together, working together, succeeding together is the ability to work together toward a common vision.  The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives.  It is the fuel that allows common people to obtain uncommon results.  He has show us that whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things; in addition, excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

As a result, Michael's interaction with his co-workers should not be un-noticed but most certainly be applauded and duplicated!!!

He has displayed:

1.  Excellent team work skills

2.  Leadership

3.  Initiative and assertiveness

4.  Friendly user environment

Thank you Michael, we appreciate your hard work and dedication!!!

Farmer's Markets in the South Bronx

The Department of Family Medicine encourages our patients to take advantage of the several Farmer's Markets currently running in the South Bronx

If you are a patient at the Fulton Family Health Center, the Wellness Center or the Crotona Family Health Center- please visit the Youthmarket on the corner of 165th and Boston Road.  Open Wednesdays.

If you are a patient at the MBD Family Health Center - please visit the Youthmarket at Seabury Park between E 173rd St and E 174 St on Saturdays.

If you are a patient at the Ogden Family Health Center or the Inpatient Service on Grand Concourse - please visit the Bronx Borough Hall Greenmarket on Grand Concourse at 158 St

Visit www.cenyc.org for more information

Department of Family Medicine Receives Fan Fox Grant

The Department of Family Medicine is the proud recipient of a $300,000 grant from the The Fan Fox & Leslie R.Samuels Foundation

Improving Health Outcomes in Homebound High Risk Vulnerable Elders in the South Bronx identifies older persons who would benefit most from a Home Based Primary Care Program (HBPC).  Our HBPC Program coordinates and provides enhanced care for homebound elderly in the Central and South Bronx by utilizing Community Health Workers to provide social and peer support for patients, educate patients in self-management practices, empower patients to take an active role in their personal health, help link patients to appropriate services in the healthcare organization and community, and provide feedback to providers regarding patient status and how to decrease barriers to care.   Under the direction of a Board-Certified Geriatrician, the HBPC team will also include a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner, a Social Worker and Social Work Interns, and Resident Physicians. 

This exciting program is slated to start on June 1,2009

Newsletter

At one point or another, every Department at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center comes in contact with the public.  With that contact comes the opportunity to present a positive image to our community.  The Department of Family Medicine is most often responsible for providing patients with their impressions of this Department.

Our Department works very hard on guest relations.  Patients and families coming to our Department are often in a stressful situation.  So, our job is to ease concerns in a caring and efficient manner.

                 New Initiative:

The Department offers various Workshops such as prenatal care, Diabetic classes, and Smoking Cessation.  A research forum meeting is also offered once a month providing a focused discussion to assist in moving projects forward by providing constructive criticism, astute observations, and profound remarks.  Having this meeting helps residents when they submit their study to get IRB approval.  Also, several doctors in the Department have participated in training to become Focus Group Facilitators to improve our research efforts.

Also, on the second week of July, 2009 Dr. Hartman started a Family Planning Clinics in the afternoon at two siteFulton and Ogden clinics, this will offer birth control options counseling, IUD's, the NuvaRing, Depo, and Implanon to patients.

The FEGs WeCare clinic has joined our team and had helped our department increase the Volume of patients seen each day.  With the increased patient volume, the Department was awarded a HRSA grant approved for $803,000.00 over 2 years.  This grant will help the Community Health Workers bring more patients into care.

We are also pleased to announce the launch of a Geriatric program under the guidance of Dr. Scaccia.  Sponsored by the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Home Based Primary Care Program is available to Homebound High Risk Vulnerable Elders in the community.

The Family Wellness Center, a collaborative initiative of the Dr. Marting Luther King, Jr. Health Center and Bronx-Lebanon's Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, opened in February, 2008.

The Wellness Center's program emphasis is on helping patients requiring repetitive hospitalizations for chronic illness.  Since April, 2009, Ms. June Howard, P.A. has began working in the Wellness Center.  In addition to conducting FEGS Reviews, she conducts the Detox Admission Histories and Physical exams.

Family Medicine, under the guidance and steady hand of Dr. Slezinger at Fulton with support from Dr. Martinez at Ogden as well as all attendings and residents are commited to expanding the quality and quantity of HIV care that we provide in all our health centers.

Great things have been happening at Ogden.  Dr. Martinez started a Morning Incentive program for the community.  With Janice Void, Residency Administrator, and the help of Coach for Living Donation, they had given several Incentives to patients that arrive early to their appointments.  They have raffled a toaster oven, electric razor, bathroom organizer, etc.  Their patients are very appreciative and the turn over has increase.

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