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Preventing Prescription Abuse

Monday, March 8th, 2010

We are happy that the state of Virginia has adopted some public health measures to slow the proliferation of prescription narcotic abuse.  For 10 months, Emergicare has participated with the Virginia Department of Health Prescription Monitoring Program.  This allows our physicians to

track and report possible “doctor shoppers” who seek to abuse Schedule II-IV drugs.
establish a [...]

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Adjusted hours on Thursday due to more snow

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Emergicare will be open 2 hours late tomorrow. Open hours will be 11am -7pm on Thursday, February 11.

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Senior Services for patients

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Sometimes we have patients who need senior care services. Today, we were happy to have Jennifer Bolles from Home Instead Senior Care  explain to us the many services that complement her company’s in-home Companion Care/Home Helper/personal care services:

In-home Companion Care/Home Helper services

eg. Home Instead Senior Care
- not all of these offer personal care service (eg. Bathing, incontinence [...]

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Informative medical resource

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Doctors at Emergicare don’t mind seeing educated patients. And here’s your tax dollars at work to provide some great health information resource. MedlinePlus directs you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also [...]

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Snow Cancelation – closed on Saturday and Sunday

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Due to the snow, Emergicare will close on Saturday, Feb 6 and Sunday, Feb 7.

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Dr. Woodard returns from Haiti

Monday, February 1st, 2010

With 4 physicians at Emergicare, one could afford to go help victims of the earthquake in Haiti while the other 3 still maintained excellent care.
Dr. Woodard wrote the following:
Sunday Jan 17 – joined Helping Haitian Angels.
I saw Dr. Kevin Kollar whom I worked with in the Waynesboro, VA ER 20 years ago. He and 3 [...]

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Patients came even in thick snow

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Last Saturday, as the snowstorm became fierce, Emergicare still cared for a dozen patients between 9am and noon. Usually we are open until 5pm on Saturdays, but some of the employees needed to travel home a distance, so we opted for their safety.

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From the comment box – retrieved on 2-1-10

Monday, February 1st, 2010

This is taken from our comment box located at the patient check-out desk.

How did I hear about Emergicare?  Workman’s comp
What is the best quality of Emergicare? How they really seem to care and efforts to make environment “homey.”
How should Emergicare improve its services? It was hard to see signs from street – you really need to [...]

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Health on the calendar

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Who would have thought that there are over 200 holidays related to health? Really! Check it out here. So if you ever wanted something to celebrate other than Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Easter, you have plenty to pick from.

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Dr. Woodard visits Haiti

Monday, January 18th, 2010

One of our own physicians, Dr. Woodard, left with a team of about 10 medical personnel to Haiti last Saturday, 4 days after the earthquake. He plans to be there for a week to aid in the medical portion of the vast relief work needed.

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