A message from the CEO
The UCI Health position as a leading provider of cancer services rests in the tireless efforts of hundreds of individuals and multiple teams to deliver best medical and surgical care, rooted in the clinical and research advances of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only NCI-designated comprehensive center based in Orange County.
These efforts are reflected in the excellence of our oncology services program, which again has received the highest recognition for clinical care, the ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) certification. As more and more cancer care shift to outpatient settings, our participation in this program assures patients that our outpatient oncology practice meets the highest standards of cancer care.
Congratulations to Dr. Edward L. Nelson, chief of hematology-oncology, and the physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and cancer center teammates who work together to meet these high standards of quality cancer care each day while providing disease-specific expertise.
UCI Health was first California oncology service to achieve QOPI-certification in 2010, shortly after ASCO launched the quality program, and has been recertified ever since. It was also the first certification at an academic medical center and the first practice in the U.S. directly affiliated with a NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. No other cancer center in Southern California can claim this level of commitment and excellence as certified by, ASCO one of the world’s leading oncology societies.
The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative is a voluntary self-assessment and improvement program developed by ASCO to help hematology and oncology practices gauge the caliber of care they provide. Encompassing at least 80 quality measures, it lets practices compare their performance data to that of others across the country and identify areas for improvement.
Thank you for your continued dedication and efforts to make UCI Health the best place to give and get care.
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| Schwartz Rounds: Joy in Medicine – June 9 |
| Guest speakers for this month’s Schwartz Center Rounds: Joy in Medicine, at noon on Friday include: - Jennifer Higgins, MSW, LCSW
- Shiho Ito, MD
- George Lewis, MD
- Billy Santos- Wallach, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN
- Ieda Grigg, chaplain
- Andrew Daniels OTD, CSRS
In person: Room 2107, Bldg, 22A, 2nd Floor
Zoom link for those unable to attend in person:
| Join Zoom Meeting | | Phone: | US: +16694449171,,97528082348#,,,,*051304# or +16699009128,,97528082348#,,,,*051304# | | Meeting URL: | | | Meeting ID: | 975 2808 2348 | | Passcode: | 051304 |
About Schwartz Center Rounds:
All healthcare providers are welcome to openly and honestly discuss social and emotional issues that arise in caring for patients.
Schwartz Center Rounds are approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. This activity is also approved for continuing medical education units (CMEs).
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| 2023 UCI Staff Service Awards ceremony – June 21 |
| UCI’s in-person, enterprise-wide, Staff Service Awards ceremony returns on June 21, from 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. at The Bren Events Center on the UCI campus. The event will feature a keynote by Chancellor Howard Gillman. All staff, faculty and academic personnel are invited to attend and show support for staff service honorees.
The 2023 staff honorees celebrating 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 years of service will receive emailed invitations. In addition, since service awards were celebrated virtually in 2022, 2021 and 2020, all honorees from those years will be invited to participate as honorees at this exciting, live event.
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| UCI Health commemorates National Gun Violence Awareness Day
UCI Health trauma surgeon Dr. Theresa Chin spoke with KFI News radio and ABC7 about the importance of the nationwide movement to raise awareness and take action against gun violence on National Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange Weekend. The June 2 event united UCI Health coworkers in a powerful display of solidarity and commitment to ending gun violence. Attendees clad in vibrant orange attire, the color hunters wear for safety now worn to honor lives lost to gun violence, gathered at in from of ther Douglas Hospital and later at the flagpole to represent a collective embodiment of hope, resilience and determination to create a safer future for all.
“Today, we remember those people that we have lost and those that have survived from gun violence. It’s a day where we can reflect as a community — how we can collaborate to really eliminate the problem of gun-related injuries,” she said.Everyday Health: Renal cancer diagnoses spike for Black Americans
In 2021, more than 76,000 people were newly diagnosed with renal cancer, up from 58,000 in 2011, with Black Americans seeing the highest rate of increase. During the last decade, detection and treatment of renal cancer has improved significantly, but mortality rates have remained higher among Black patients.
UCI Health urologist Dr. Melvin L. Seard II says the reason for this disparity are the obstacles Black people face in accessing quality care for renal cancer. The roadblocks are the same as those they face when dealing with the American healthcare system overall: paying for care, navigating bias and getting education about care, he told Everyday Health.
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| Faculty and Staff Support Services
Life can throw curve balls and be overwhelming, but we can’t pour from an empty cup. Don’t hesitate to reach out for help when you need it. Faculty and Staff Support Services provide consultative services and support to resolve behavioral health issues, serves as a primary crisis intervention resource to facilitate and coordinate appropriate resources, provides time-limited case management for individual employees, and develops and implements instructional training and materials to assist in the promotion of mental well-being for all UCI Health employees.
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| 2023 Nursing Excellence Award winners & nominees |
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