Whether you are a couple or a family struggling through a trying period, we hope you will reach out to learn more about how we can help. Our clinicians work with couples of all backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations. Often in times of adversity, we get lost in the heat of our emotions and find it challenging to re-frame, empathize and forgive. Helios’s approach is centered on a systems based, “strengths” focused framework. Helios provides a private, supportive therapeutic environment designed to help families and couples in crisis reflect, integrate and progress. Guiding Families From Trauma to Recovery. Our experienced CMT-in-residence, Karina Hoog, is available throughout the week to offer therapeutic massage before or after treatment sessions. Our patients enjoy purified water or tea from our FloWater station, and love to explore the hundreds of books, totems and artwork we have on hand. Helios is designed to be a refuge, with personal touches through the space that make the environment feel like an escape. With backgrounds in private practice, county hospitals, community clinics and large academic research institutions, Helios’s team brings a diverse set of experience and perspectives to patient care. Helios’s clinicians are experienced in a range of psychiatric conditions, from treatment resistant depression and anxiety, to adult attention-deficit disorder, bipolar, trauma and PTSD. Batalden, who are partners at the appellate firm Horvitz & Levy LLP, and is republished with permission.įor more information regarding this bulletin, please contact H.Helios offers a variety of services, from medication management and talk therapy, to family and couples counseling, to progressive therapies for treatment resistant illnesses. The bulletin describing this appellate decision was originally prepared for the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys (CSHA) by H. Wolfsohn (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th 1024, by noting that this case began with a patient complaint (as opposed to one by a third party), the expert declaration described a deviation from the standard of care, and the subpoena was not a fishing expedition. Moreover, the trial court’s failure to make factual determinations was not error because the Board was not obligated to prove wrongdoing. Additionally, the court rejected Dore’s claim that the Board’s expert declaration should have addressed how often other physicians would have issued similar prescriptions. Last, the court distinguished Grafilo v. The Board’s expert declaration explained that treating family members is traditionally outside the scope of standard medical care. Here it was highly unlikely that extenuating circumstances (like an emergency) justified such care. Second, the court held that the Board produced sufficient evidence to support a finding that the family member’s records were relevant and material to the Board’s investigation, which was narrowly crafted to exclude immaterial records. The Court of Appeal affirmed. First, it held that the Board provided sufficient evidence showing that it had compelling interest in reviewing the medical records. The Board filed in the trial court a petition to compel Dore and her practice to comply with the subpoena and other interrogatories. Dore opposed the petition. The trial court granted the petition. Dore and her practice appealed. After finding an irregular prescription of Adderall and Klonopin (both controlled substances) to a family member employed by her medical practice, the Board served Dore with an investigative subpoena for the family member’s medical records. Dore refused to produce the records. Jennifer Dore-a certified psychiatrist and surgeon-inappropriately prescribed controlled substances, the Board opened an investigation into Dore and her practice. When a patient complained to the Medical Board of California (Board) that Dr. 14, 2023, A165128) _ Cal.App.5th _ ĭoctor’s irregular prescription of controlled substances to family member is good cause for disclosure of family member’s private medical information.
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