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Valley Medical Group Patient News

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June 17th, 2022

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Dear Valley Medical Group Patients,

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Later this month, Valley Medical Group will begin offering a digital ”check-in” option for patients to prepare for upcoming office visits.  You will receive an email and text message two days before a scheduled appointment with a provider. This will allow you to complete many of the steps necessary to “check-in” before you arrive for an appointment. 

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For the first phase of our project, this includes verifying your name, address, phone numbers, email address, as well as adding insurance and ID cards, paying any copay or deductibles, and signing forms. Digital “check-in’ can be completed on your smart phone, tablet, or desktop computer without need to download software or an application or to create a username or password. 

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The second phase of our project includes the ability to complete forms electronically, allowing these to be uploaded directly into your medical record.  The last phase includes on-line appointment scheduling.

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Of course, if you are not able or prefer not to complete the “check-in” in advance of your appointment, our terrific Reception Team will be available in the health center to assist you.  If you have any questions or concerns about this project, please contact Martha Mastroberti, Healthcare Informatics Manager (by email: mmastroberti@vmgma.com or by phone: 413-485-8462).

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Thank you and be well,

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Paul D. Carlan, MD  President and Chief Executive Officer

Valley Medical Group

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VMG Working to be an Anti Racist Practice

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In honor of Black Maternal Health Week (April 11-17th), we want to raise awareness of the Kaiser Family Foundation's report on Racial Disparities in Women's Maternal Health. VMG stands firmly in the belief that "It Takes A Village" to raise a child, to raise awareness, and to undo racism! Therefore, we are sharing resources so our whole community can become more knowledgeable on this topic, starting with the Black Mamas Matter Toolkit!

 

Where better to begin than in utero to assert the birthright of our children, mothers, and all humans to live in a world free from racism. This past year, COVID highlighted the racial differences in access to healthcare and the prevalence of illnesses that co-exist among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Now, let us take the recent CDC statement committing to address racism as a serious threat to public health as a collective call to action to encourage systemic interventions to address the factors that impact the health and wellbeing of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. These include stress, food insecurity, police brutality, inequities in the legal system, poverty, employment discrimination, environmental hazards, educational inequities, etc.

 

We hope this holistic, race conscious approach to health will redirect resources to racially marginalized groups and support funding for research on the long term impacts of racism and intergenerational trauma on mental and physical wellbeing. Valley Medical Group, for its part, has committed to a Climate Survey and Interrupting Racism trainings for our whole staff to root racism out of public health and provide culturally sensitive and proactive, racially responsive care to all our patients.  

 

For further resources, please check out: 

Nine Organizations Working to Save Black Mothers

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