Our team having fun this December at very fun escape room. We *almost* escaped.

Happy New Year!!

  • Clinic Updates
  • Vaccines and In office Testing
  • Changes to Spruce auto replies and phone tree
  • Links to member benefits

CLINIC UPDATES

Welcome (back) Dr. Kamath!

Rohini Kamath, MD In our commitment to keeping numbers of patients per provider low so our patients can have excellent access to the clinic, we have brought back Dr. Rohini Kamath. We love her, patients love her, and I would recommend her to a family member in a heartbeat. https://greenlakeprimarycare.com/rohini-kamath

Vaccines

  • COVID Vaccine Supply
    • Is it time for your COVID booster? https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html
    • Adults: All adults will need to receive their COVID vaccines at pharmacies or events.
    • Children: We have been getting small shipments of Moderna for ages 6mo-18years. Call clinic to get on our schedule. They can be given at the same time as the flu vaccine.
  • FLU vaccine
    • We still have regular dose adult and pediatric flu vaccines! Please come get your free vaccine. We also can give them to parents and spouses of patients.
    • If you are 65 or older and would benefit from the high dose vaccine, you can still get it at a pharmacy.
  • RSV Vaccine
    • We have RSV vaccine for infants less than 8 months old and toddlers at high risk.
    • Adults 60 and older now qualify for the RSV vaccination. For those unaware, we had a terrible RSV season last year. RSV causes significant hospitalizations and deaths in seniors in our community. You can read more about the vaccine here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/rsv/hcp/older-adults-faqs.html

IN OFFICE TESTING
COVID is on the rise. The rapid COVID is somewhat more accurate than home tests, but the PCR is still the gold standard. If you have symptoms and test negative, we recommend you reach out to us, but in most cases home retesting in 2 days is a good idea.

  • COVID +flu A/B: $30 for direct primary care ($60 Medicare -we bill for you)
  • RSV: $20
  • Strep A: $15

Fullscripts for Vitamins and Supplements

You can have nutritional supplements like vitamins mailed to you at 20% off with this link. Fullscripts signup

Spruce Messaging Tips

  • Use Spruce to request refills or ask for appointment, but be sure to call us if you have a truly urgent concern and we do not respond within an hour to your message.
  • Select a reason when you send a message so it gets routed the fasted way possible. You do not need to repeat the message after that. For example, if a message is for the MAs to start a refill it will go directly to them if you select that button. If you choose to “message my doctor” during the day, they may get the message sooner. After hours, “message my doctor” may go to their phone as an alert, so only use this if it is truly urgent. If you select “message my team” after hours, they will forward to your doctor in the morning.
  • Please make sure notifications are on for Spruce if you send a message requesting reply.
  • If you don’t have Spruce but would like it, please send a text message or call our main number.

YOGA

Seated yoga with meditation for everyone. Thursdays at noon for 30 min with Alison Solam. Log in and say hello, then you can turn off your camera.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94775255942 

RESOURCES AND COMMON QUESTIONS