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NEWSLETTER
Director’s Message
DECEMBER 2022
Peer-to-Peer
Dr. Linh Pham
Dear OC Health Care Agency
“I see myself as a worker bee partnering with others in the hive to ultimately
(HCA) Team,
provide and improve the medical care of Orange County (OC) residents.” Peer-to-Peer recipient Dr. Linh Pham, Physician II-Correctional, Correctional
As we countdown to 2023, I
Health Services (CHS), Juvenile Health Services (JHS), has been a “worker
hope you are as excited and
bee” for 8 years with the County of Orange. When asked what she likes most
positive as I am, about the
about her work, Dr. Pham said its her coworkers, “Everyone is dedicated to
future of the HCA, and all we
their job and performs their job duties with the
do in Orange County (OC). We
utmost care and abilities. I am fortunate to
have faced, and continue to
work with such outstanding people who
face, many challenges including
do outstanding work.”
respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), monkeypox, influenza, and of
Dr. Pham said she joined the OC
course COVID-19 and its vari-
Health Care Agency (HCA) after
ants. In addition, there are the
being referred by a friend. “I
‘regular’ matters we are tasked
started working as a contracted
with such as crisis interven-
physician for the Juvenile Hall,
tion, care for the incarcerated,
and really enjoyed the inter-
veterans’ services, along with
actions with the youths and
our many public and mental
the staff.” Her career has
health programs. Don’t forget
focused on youth. “Before
issues which rise from time to
joining the HCA I worked
time such as rabid bats, avian
as a general pediatrician
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as well as a physician on a mobile asthma van taking care of children with asthma. When people
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ask what I do for work I tell them I’m a pediatrician, but I work mostly with the adolescent population.” . . . continued on page 2