Noachim (Noah) Steve Marco, M.D. serves as the chief medical officer for the Los Angeles Jewish Home and the Brandman Health Plan. He is also the executive director of the Brandman Research Institute and the medical director of our IPA, LAJH Medical Associates. Prior to joining the Home, Dr. Marco was the vice president of medical affairs at Northridge Hospital Medical Center (NHMC). At NHMC, he led numerous improvement efforts, served on a wide range of hospital, system-wide and community committees. Before NHMC, Dr. Marco was president of the medical staff of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills, California and chair of the Bioethics Committee. Prior to Kaiser Permanente, he was in private practice and was Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine at the USC School of Medicine.

With more than 30 years of experience as a physician, Dr. Marco is also a prolific writer, and a sought-after speaker. He has presented numerous lectures, and led workshops on a broad range of medical issues and topics that include elder care, clinician patient communication, and physician training. His podcast Who Cares? The future of home care is currently on I-tunes.

Dr. Marco’s expertise on caring for nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic has been published by numerous print news agencies. In addition, he appeared on several news broadcasts, and has spoken on numerous healthcare webinars. He participated in several Delphi panels that led to published articles and letters to regulators. He currently serves on the Clinical Advisory Group of LeadingAge. The Clinical Advisory Group assists LeadingAge develop policy positions on issues that impact care for seniors and provider operations, and helps LeadingAge staff with their communication to federal agencies.  

The mayor of Los Angeles acknowledged Dr. Marco’s efforts to set the standards for COVID-19 testing in nursing facilities at a widely covered press conference.

He holds a Bachelor of Sciences Degree from UCLA, and his medical degree is from U.C. Davis. His Internal Medicine residency was at Children’s Hospital of San Francisco (now called California Pacific Hospital).  

Dear CALTCM Colleagues,

Welcome to the kickoff of the WAVE Wellness Corner! This new feature is a product of the CALTCM Wellness Committee and has been a year in the making, so we’re excited to share the first edition with you.

A little background … The Wellness Committee was formally approved by the CALTCM Board in early February 2020. Recognizing the increasing challenges in geriatric care and burnout among long term care physicians, clinicians and teams (even before Covid-19), we felt it was time for a proactive effort to support our members. Little did we dream that a pandemic would ravage our nation and impact our patients, staff, colleagues, families and ourselves to the extent that it did. 

For many years CALTCM—the California Association of Long-Term Medicine has provided cutting edge education and gold-standard practice management tools through their Summit for Excellence annual meeting.  Join me and other physicians, advance practice nurses, nursing home administrators and other healthcare providers on October 8-10 as we virtually come together for engaging and interactive educational sessions and panels.

As a geriatrician who had a robust nursing home practice for many years, one of my passions was helping the residents meet their highest level of function as possible.  I’ll be presenting and moderating during the “Is Functional Decline Under Our Control?” portion of the conference and am excited to show how residents benefit from a true interdisciplinary approach to maintaining and improving their function.