Family Physician or Internist

MCHC is looking for a friendly Family Physician and/or Internist to help us serve our community’s needs. This position requires a full-spectrum of care, including prenatal and low-risk OB. Spanish-speaking language skills are ideal.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
Licensure/Certificate/Registration: Board Certified Family Practice Physician or Board Certified Internist, licensed to practice in Utah.

Experience Required:
Provide care and medical case management to urban undeserved patients.  Philosophy and practiced methods of managed care.  Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team; possesses team building, problem solving and analytical skills.  Strong community and public health orientation

MCHC is a NHSC approved site and applicants may qualify for loan repayment. For more information on loan repayment, visit

http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/

Interested parties should forward a CV/Resume:

Crystalynn (hr201108@mountainlands.org)

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:
Licensure/Certificate/Registration: Board Certified Nurse Practitioner, licensed to practice in Utah.

Experience Required: Provide personal, accessible medical care and medical case management to urban undeserved patients.  Philosophy and practiced methods of managed care.  Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team; possesses team building, problem solving and analytical skills.  Strong community and public health orientation

Other Requirements:  Have (or obtain) and continue to maintain a D.E.A. license for controlled substances within 2 months of employment.  Obtain and maintain any other licensing or provider panel participation necessary to provide quality patient care. (UPIN, Medicaid, Medicare, managed care plans, etc.)

MCHC is a NHSC approved site and applicants may qualify for loan repayment. For more information on loan repayment,

visit http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/

Interested parties should forward a CV/Resume:

Crystalynn (hr201108@mountainlands.org)

It was the largest single legislative achievement of his first two years in office, and the most controversial. Not a single Republican voted for the final version, and Republicans across the country campaigned on a promise to repeal the bill. After they took control of the House and expanded their ranks in the Senate in the November elections, action on health care was at the top of their agenda.

On Jan. 19, 2011, the House voted 245 to 189 in favor of repeal, in what both sides agreed was largely a symbolic act.

Health Care Reform — New York Times

April 10 – Utah Valley University northwest parking area, 1200 W. 800 South; and Walgreeens at 1315 N. State in Provo

April 17 – Walgreens locations at 80 S. State and 763 N. State in Orem, at 815 W. State Rd. in Pleasant Grove; at 102 N. 1200 East in Lehi; and at 1410 N. Redwood Road in Saratoga Springs.

But this week brought a small win for moms. A group of lawmakers are celebrating a decision by the Internal Revenue Service to allow women to deduct the cost of breast pumps and other breast-feeding supplies.

The policy change means that from now on, taxpayers will be able to get back the money shelled out for breast-feeding supplies, which can cost hundreds of dollars.

It’s not super easy (is anything dealing with the IRS easy?) But women in the know can now get reimbursed if they use money from their Health Savings Accounts or Flexible Spending Accounts. Or, they can deduct the costs from their income taxes — if they have other medical expenses that make up more than 7.5 percent of their income.

Breast-Feeding Gets A Boost Amid The Health Policy Wars — NPR

“Anything we could think of to cook, we put a J Dawg in it,” Wengert said.

Unfortunately, the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans does not suggest eating large amounts of hot dogs, or large amounts of anything, for that matter.

The 2010 guidelines reported about one-third of American adults are obese, and almost 15 percent of American households struggle to find healthy choices on a budget.

Beat Obesity and Find healthy, packaged food — The Daily Universe

The first lady visited the Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta, touting that public school’s efforts to improve student nutrition and fitness as she marked the first anniversary of her “Let’s Move!” campaign. She snacked on some blueberries with a second-grade class and checked out the school’s garden with first-graders.

First lady takes “let’s Move” Campaign to South — KSL.com

The Orem mother has spent most of the last two weeks in the hospital with her newborn baby, who developed whooping cough a week before she was old enough to get the first vaccination against the disease. Multiple times a day, Harman watches as Sissarina’s heart rate drops and she fights to breathe as nurses fill the room and hook up oxygen tubes or a mask to help the baby breathe.

Whooping Cough Still plaguing infants — Daily Harold

It’s now been at its new home on south State Street for almost two months, and the clinic is reveling in all of the extra space it has to treat people and the resources it has to offer.

Now it needs more people.

“We do have room in our schedules where we have not in the past, and we’re trying to fill those up with anybody as best as we can,” said executive director Todd Bailey.

It’s not that they’re not treating people already; the clinic, which is geared mostly toward people without health insurance, has about 12,000 patients annually. About 13 percent of the clients have insurance and about 76 percent are Hispanic.

Community health center seeing mostly good results from move — Daily Harold