Author Archives: Liana

Are you affected by secondhand smoke inside your home? Do you want to create a healthier environment by taking indoor smoking outside the home? Although tobacco use has declined in the United States over the past 50 years through the passage of tobacco taxes, laws to protect workers from secondhand smoke, adoption of ordinances to …

Diabetes is a chronic illness which impacts the way your body processes sugar, and it affects nearly 10% of all Americans. There are three main types of diabetes: Type 1 diabetes, where your body is incapable of processing sugar on its own Type 2 diabetes, where your body is not very good at processing sugar …

Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) own Dr. Christian Ramers has been awarded the CalHEP (California Hepatitis Alliance) Clinical Champion Award for 2017. Through health policy, education and advocacy, CalHEP aims to reduce the burden of hepatitis B and C in California. Dr. Ramers is being recognized for his extraordinary work and leadership in …

Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death among Latinos, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Eighty to 90 percent of lung cancers and up to one-third of all heart disease related deaths can be traced back to smoking. But this doesn’t mean an automatic death sentence for all …

Hepatitis Facts Hepatitis C, also known as Hep C or HCV, is an infectious viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver. Persons can contract the disease through contact with blood from an infected person and it is most commonly spread through the sharing of needles and drug paraphernalia or non-sterile tattoo and body piercing …

Every three years Family Health Centers of San Diego is subjected to an intense review of our programs, services, and most of all, our clinical safety. For over two decades, we have invited The Joint Commission, the nation’s pre-eminent accrediting body for health care organizations, to spend a week testing our systems, our culture of …

May is Hepatitis Awareness Month. With the recent hepatitis A breakout in the city of San Diego, Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) encourages patients of all ages to protect themselves by becoming #HepAware. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), millions of Americans have chronic viral hepatitis without knowing they are …

Protecting the “littles” is a cornerstone of Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) mission. Children are the most vulnerable and disadvantaged when it comes to health care prevention.  Nationally, pediatric practices are challenged with retaining their patients after four months of age. Contributors to this decline in pediatric wellness visits may be busy single …

This past weekend, families gathered at Sherman Heights Community Center for Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) Healthy Heroes Wellness Fair. This second-annual fair provided kids and their families with the opportunity to learn more about the health care services available to them, along with ways to improve their health and make smart choices. FHCSD …

On June 29, 2017, FHCSD will graduate our inaugural class of Family Medicine physicians, and in so doing, move one step closer to providing a solution for our organization to the national physician shortage. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, “Under every combination of scenarios modeled, the United States will face a shortage …

March 28, 2017, is American Diabetes Association Alert Day! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 86 million Americans have prediabetes – and 9 out of 10 of those affected are unaware that they have it. The CDC also projects that 15-30% of people with prediabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within …

If you knew that a certain segment of Americans had a suicide rate of 41% compared to the general public’s rate of 4.6% you might be shocked. It might be further horrifying to know that many represented in that high rate of suicide were children. And of those children, most had been bullied, isolated, and …