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Frequently Asked Questions:
What
is a Hospitalist?
A hospitalist is a
physician who takes care of patients while they are in the hospital if
they don't have a physician, or their physician doesn't care for patients
in the hospital.
Is there a certain doctor that I
should see now?
This is a difficult
question to answer even on a case by case basis, but we can explore
the issues here. There is a physican tentatively scheduled to open a
practice in my previous location in January 2010.
In
the interim I've found my list below to generally be more current than
information avaiable from the local medical society. Check with
names on this list first, and then if needed contact the Butte Glenn
medical society to see what their current recommendations are.
Look in the phone book and see which physicians are located conveniently
close to home. You will find that some physicians accept your health
insurance while others may not. Physicians all have different
personalities and sometimes the first physician you see may not feel like
the right fit. Be cautious about judgements made on just one
visit--physicians are people too and have good days and bad days.
When you think about those issues above it's easy to see why I can't just
say "Go to Dr. X and everything should be fine."
If you are
a member of an HMO then you will need to contact your insurance provider
and see which doctor they choose to assign you to. If you are a
member of a PPO plan, then you should contact your insurance provider to
see which phsicians accept their plan--although you may be able to find
this information directly from the individual physician offices.
Blue Shield patients may go to www.blueshieldca.com , and
Blue Cross patients may go to www.bluecrossca.com .
TriCare patients should go to www.tricare.mil/mybenefit and
Tricare Prime patients should go to www.mytricare.com for more
information.
All the locations listed below
have accepted patients, though I certainly don't check on a daily basis to
see if their status has changed. It may also be the case that the
patients that have been accepted have a different profile that your own
(insurance etc.) or may have been accepted because that physician was
already seeing another member of the family.
Doctors and clinics
alphabetically by town:
CHICO
Dr. Lisa
Benaron with nurse practitioners Sally Vertolli and Michelle Phillips
(899-1627)
Dr. Elisa Brown [Pediatric patients only] (893-2303)
Dr. Rhonda Carlson (899-3575)
Dr. James Carter (891-6331)
Dr. Kirk Casey at Argyll Medical
Group does have room for some addional sports medicine cases and in
general patients under the age of 65. He already has quite a large
population over the age 65 after taking over Dr. Olson's practice.
(899-0134)
Chico Family Health
(342-4395)
Convenient Care Health Center
(899-7120)
Dr. Randall
Caviness (891-9531)
Dr. Daniel
Ekkens (345-0064)
Dr. Sally
Foltz (894-0200)
Dr. Douglas
Garrison (566-0132)
Dr. Tanya
Layne (893-4200)
Dr. Hugo
Leon at Mangrove Medical Group (345-0064)
Dr. Mark Light (899-7300)
Mission Ranch medical
group is accepting new patients with about a 3-4 week
wait. (894-0500) Physcians I've seen accept patients include
Dr. Lim, Dr. Nayduch, Dr. Rey, Dr. Westcott
North Valley Indian Health (896-9400)
Dr. Steven Peterson and his wife Debra
Peterson PA-C (342-7564)
Dr.
Bradley Smith (891-1676)
Dr. Dean
Smith (345-0064)
Gridley
Gridley Medical Group (846-5655)
Orland
First Care
Medical Associates Inc (865-4400)
Dr. James Corona (865-6430)
Ross Tye
and Associates is accepting patients. Laura
Loudermilk is a nurse practitioner who works with Dr. Ross Tye
in Orland. She has also been a diabetic educator for years and would
be an excellent choice for patients with diabetes. (865-3400)
Oroville
Oroville
Internal Medicine Group (533-1554)
Dr. Vaugh Smith (532-1820)
Dr. Jerry Waters (538-3020)
Paradise
Dr Timothy Arnott
(876-1100)
Dr. Dean Hadley
(877-7898)
Dr. Rhea Licuanan
(877-7606)
Dr. Larry Miller
(877-4466)
Paradise Medical Group (872-6650)
Ridge Primary
Care (877-0762)
Dr David
Whitaker (872-1618)
Red
Bluff
Frontier Village Family
Health Center (528-7650)
Willows
Willows Family
Practice (934-3387)
