No. 10
November 1998
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Volume 22 No. 10 November 1998 |
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| Twelve students from Woodside Elementary school were "triaged" by physicians and other staff at the entrance to Stanford Hospital's Emergency Department on Oct. 16 as part of a San Mateo County disaster exercise that simulated a major school bus accident. The students - vividly "moulaged" or made up to appear injured - got some time off from classes to help the Medical Center and numerous public agencies test their ability to respond to a major emergency that would bring an influx of patients requiring urgent attention. |
COLUMNS
Chief of Staff
Brown & Toland Physician Services Organization
Restructures in Response to Market Downtown
NEWS
Krummel Selected for Surgery Chair Invention Challenge Carries $2,500 Prize Adult Neurosciences Chiefs Announced
PAST ISSUES
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Primary Care
Base Best Built Through Relationships, McAfee Says Thomas McAfee, UCSF Stanford's new enterprisewide director of primary care services and chief medical officer of the Brown & Toland Medical Group, says that development of primary care at UCSF Stanford will result from agreements with existing physician groups, not from acquisition of formerly private practices. [See Related Story] "The questions being asked about primary care at any academic medical center, certainly at UCSF Stanford," he said, "are 'how much is enough and how do we build what we need' and, of course, 'how much will it cost.'" McAfee spoke Oct. 21 to the monthly joint meeting of the Stanford Hospital and Clinics Deputy Chiefs' Committee and Medical Center Task Force. His talk came in context of an announced expansion by Brown & Toland to the Peninsula area, including Stanford's service area, effective Jan. 1, 1999. UCSF Stanford, like other academic medical centers,
needs to build a primary care capability to maintain an
adequate patient base for secondary and teaching
programs. And the organization has learned from the
examples of other centers that acquiring practices may
not be the best way to do this, McAfee said. |
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