This July, we proudly recognize the dedicated team members at RCMS who are celebrating their work anniversaries. Your commitment to compassionate care and community well-being continues to make a lasting impact.

Thank you for the energy, heart, and professionalism you bring to our mission every day--your contributions are truly appreciated! 

RCMS is seeking a board-certified or board-eligible Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) to join our dedicated team on California’s beautiful North Coast.
This is a unique opportunity to provide patient-centered primary care in a rural, mission-driven health center that values collaboration, compassion, and community impact.
🔹 Full-time position (4-day workweek)
🔹 Supportive, multidisciplinary team
🔹 Competitive salary and benefits
🔹 Employer retirement match
🔹 Meaningful work serving an underserved population
Come be part of a team where your expertise is valued—and your work makes a real difference.
Apply today and help shape the future of rural health care. 

Congratulations to Carmen Fuentes! Since joining RCMS in 2020, Carmen has been a vital part of our Front Desk Team. She brings warmth, professionalism, and a positive attitude to every interaction—qualities that make a real difference for both patients and staff.

Carmen was chosen for her outstanding teamwork, reliability, and the genuine care she shows every day. She consistently goes above and beyond to support our mission and the people we serve.
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Thank you, Carmen, for all you do!

On Friday, July 4, RCMS Primary Care and Dental services will be closed in observance of Independence Day.

Urgent Care will be on call—please call (707) 884-4005 before coming in.
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Wishing you a safe and happy holiday! 🎆

​RCMS Treasurer’s Financial Snapshot by Drew McCalley
 
As of the end of April, ten months into our fiscal year, our financial condition remains strong. With a new full-time MD and a new full-time PA now seeing patients, Primary Care visits and patient service revenue were up in April, though still below budgeted amounts. Expenses also remained under budget, and this month they were more under budget than patient revenue, so the net was positive versus the budget. All of our other revenue sources remained stable, for now. As a result, the bottom line was positive for the month, although it remained substantially negative for the fiscal year to date. We expect May financial results to be very positive, due to some large non-operational revenues coming in during the month. Despite all of the news about potential cutbacks in federal funding for healthcare, we have ample cash reserves to withstand any funding cuts for an extended period of time.
 
Details on the latest financial results can be found in the board meeting packet for May 28, 2025, on the RCMS website:
Board Agenda and Packet

The following is an outline of comments from the CEO at the recent Redwood Coast Medical Services (RCMS) Board Meeting. 
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Community Outreach

• RCMS donated, supported, and participated in the annual Waves & Whales 5K Trail Run/Walk, which was held on the Mendocino Coast in Point Arena. Proceeds from the Waves & Whales Trail Run support ACORN Partners in Education in their environmental stewardship programs for school children in our community.

 
Organizational/Operational update

• We continue to prepare for our HRSA OSV scheduled July 22 – 24. The first pass of most of our documentation is complete at this time. We will soon start loading them to the appropriate online site as required by the OSV team. Again, a reminder for board members to be available during that time.
• We had a comprehensive visit from our IT partner, Maxwell IT, last week. They spent two full days here. They addressed most of the issues caused by the failure of our UPS systems a few weeks back during the PG&E power outage. They also analyzed the key elements of our computer and communication infrastructure and will be putting together a near-term as well as a multi-year long-term upgrade plan. We should be getting some details about that in the next couple of weeks. While they were here, we also talked about better coordination between our on-site team and their engineers.
• I had reported in the past that we were looking at a NextGen AI-based toolset called Ambient AI to help our providers automatically document important information in patients' charts based on the conversation they were having with the patient during the visit. After the initial testing, we have decided not to go forward with the implementation of that product at this time. We plan to revisit this at a later time and do more testing.
• Our leases for Point Arena medical and dental buildings are expiring at the end of June. We are currently working on renewing those leases.
• Mendocino County has changed or corrected the building addressing scheme for Ocean Drive. This has caused some confusion with our Genoa Pharmacy’s physical address. We are addressing that.
• Recently, as part of our emergency preparedness activities, we did a Tsunami evacuation drill at our Medical and Dental facilities in Point Arena. These two buildings fall in the Tsunami hazard zone as defined by USGS. We are also planning an emergency evacuation procedure practice drill for the Gualala building.
• We are in the process of getting an eye examination equipment that will be used to do in house screening for Diabetic Retinopathy. Once set up and our staff is trained on this device, this will significantly help our providers to do Diabetic Retinopathy diagnostics for our patients during a regular visit and will prevent, in many cases, annual out of town visit to eye specialist. 
• Facilities expansion project – we plan to report to the board next month on where we are with planning, county approvals, results of the feasibility study of the consulting group we engaged, and what is our recommendation to the board going forward.