k e e p i n g VOLUME 4 ■ ISSUE 4
IN PROFILE
Valley Meal Prep expands healthy meal prep options with Turlock joining Modesto and Stockton locations.
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IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE?
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NEWS
Bill Berryhill has segued out of politics and into the winemaking business.
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Doctors Nahera and Ninos Adams recently opened their own private practice in Turlock, Adams Medical Group, where Nahera will serve as a primary care physician and Ninos as Turlock’s lone psychiatrist.
Brothers return home to the 209 area amid doctor shortage BY ANGELINA MARTIN
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hroughout medical school at the University of California, Davis, Doctors Nahera Adams and Ninos Adams did everything together, earning themselves the nickname “The Brothers” amongst their peers. When completing their residency programs, however, the pair was split — Nahera continued his education in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco’s Fresno Medical Education Program, while Ninos excelled as chief resident for several years in the UCLA-Kern Psychiatry Residency Program. Today, the two brothers have
been reunited, opening their own practice in Turlock during a time when a lack of physicians has forced Valley residents to wait weeks, or even months, for a visit to the doctor’s office. Born and raised in Modesto, Nahera and Ninos spent much of their youth working through weekends and summer vacations on their family’s almond orchard in Turlock and learning about the world of medicine from their father, who recently retired as an obstetrician-gynecologist after 40 years. Stanislaus County is home to them, the brothers said, and serving their community has been a goal years in the making. SEE DOCTORS, PAGE 10
Filling The Gap Strategies at the national, state and regional level to fill the potential gap between primary care demand and supply include: • Actively recruiting primary care physicians to practice in California; • Expanding primary care residency programs, particularly in the regions at greatest risk for long-term shortages; • Improving retention of physicians, particularly younger physicians; • Ensuring 3-7 percent annual growth in graduations from NP and PA education programs so
the number of graduates keeps pace with projected demand; • Expanding team-based primary care models that maximize the use of all clinicians, and supporting alignment of insurance reimbursement with team-based care; and • Ensuring scope-of-practice regulations for NPs and PAs maximize their capacity to provide primary care and to work at the highest level of their education and knowledge. Information from UC San Francisco’s report “California’s Primary Care Workforce: Forecasted Supply, Demand, and Pipeline of Trainees, 2016-2030.