Outreach Care
Ravenswood Family Health Clinic
From left counter clockwise: Reshma Thadani, MD, MPH, Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH, Elizabeth Baca, MD, MPH and Lisa Lestishock, NP
OUR PROVIDERS: The pediatric department at Ravenswood Family Health Center (RFHC) is comprised of Dr. Reshma Thadani, Associate Medical Director, Dr. Janice Lowe, Dr. Elizabeth Baca, Dr. Lisa Chamberlain, Dr. Dana Weintraub, and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Lisa Lestishock. All of our pediatricians are Stanford faculty and PNP Lestishock is employed by Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
OUR CLINIC: Ravenswood Family Health Center is committed to provide the highest quality primary health services, delivered in a competent, caring, and culturally sensitive manner, regardless of ability to pay. The clinic is the only federally funded nonprofit community health center in San Mateo County. We offer full scope primary medical care and prevention services to underserved and uninsured ethnic minorities and low-income families. Currently, we have over 4,000 pediatric patients enrolled in our clinic. The goal of the Pediatric Department at Ravenswood Family Health Center is to improve the health of children in the East Palo Alto community by providing high quality pediatric clinical care, innovative clinical teaching and research, and partnership with community groups to improve health practices.
OUR PATIENTS: We serve southern San Mateo County, including East Palo Alto, the Belle Haven community in Menlo Park, and the North Fair Oaks section of Redwood City. Our patient statistics are:
- 92% of RFHC's patients are African American, Latino and Pacific Islander
- 96% live at or below 200% of the federal poverty level
- 25% of children are uninsured
- 65% prefer a language other than English
OUR ACTIVITIES: Our clinic serves as a continuity clinic site for the Stanford pediatric residents, a site for the residents in the Community Pediatrics and Child Advocacy rotation, and a preceptorship for a nurse practitioner student from University of California, San Francisco. Our providers have a broad range of activities that include improvement projects within the clinic, research and teaching at Stanford, and working jointly with community agencies. We are working on improving quality of care to children with chronic conditions such as asthma and obesity by standardizing clinical practice and collaborating with community partners. Our providers are members of the East Palo Alto Asthma Task Force, San Mateo Get Healthy Task Force, Get Fit EPA, Family Advocacy Program, and San Mateo Dental Health Coalition.
If you have any questions, please contact us at (650) 330-7400 or visit our Web site at www.ravenswoodfhc.org
Washington Hospital Medicine
The Pediatric hospitalist prograg at Washington Hospital Health Care System was started in July 2003 and is staffed by General Pediatricians who are affiliated with Stanford University. Pediatric hospitalists at Washington hospital are all Board-Certified general pediatricians who have completed a 3 year residency in Pediatrics.
The program currently has 7 hospitalists and covers the in-patient service 24/7. The group covers approximately 65% of in-patients and will provide care to approximately 98% as off February 2010.
The hospitalists at Washington hospital provide general Pediatric care for in-patients and ED patients whose primary physicians do not have admitting privileges at Washington hospital or have contracted with the hospital to use the services of the hospitalists group. The hospitalists remain in close contact with the patient’s Pediatrician throughout the hospital stay, especially on admission and at the time of discharge from the hospital so that excellent continuity of care is provided. The Pediatric hospitalist provides care in the following areas:
- inpatient care for a 12-bed pediatric unit;
- necessary consultations in the ED
- in-patient consults on Surgical patients
- Newborns in the Well baby nursery.
- Coverage for the Level 2 Packard nursery overnight with back up by a Neonatologist.
Our goal is to provide outstanding evidence-based pediatric in-patient care and to enable hospitalized sick children to be taken care off in their community thus remaining closer to home.
Pediatric Hospitalists are working on projects such as improving lactation services at Washington hospital and making Washington Baby friendly; improving quality of care to all hospitalized children with asthma and newborns on the birthing center; instituting “Family Centered Care” at Washington Hospital.
