Hampton Health in Hospitals and Post-Acute Facilities works within major hospitals and Post-Acute Facilities encompassing a broad spectrum of long-term care, including Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF’s), Assisted Living Facilities (ALF’s), Independent Living Facilities (ILF’s), adult day care and more.
A native of Miami, FL Dr. John H. Fullerton completed medical school at the University of Miami. He came to California to complete his Internal Medicine residency at California Pacific Medical Center (formerly Pacific Presbyterian Hospital), where he was selected “resident of the year’ and subsequently also served as a chief medical resident. For more than nine years he worked as a hospitalist and pioneered early ‘hospitalist’ methods at a satellite of CPMC by successfully integrating internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care principles into an internal medicine program.
As a preceptor for St. Mary’s Medical Center since 2007, Dr. Fullerton gradually increased his teaching and mentoring commitment and in 2009 was appointed Education Director of Geriatric and Palliative Training, devoting his time to care for the vulnerable elderly, creating and utilizing the skills of an inter-disciplinary team and designing innovative approaches of care for various levels of acute and long-term care (LTC).
Within the field of long-term care (hospital and post-acute), Dr. Fullerton, on behalf of Hampton Health, has fostered clinical academic positions involving and developing curricula for in-patients as well as creating medical home care models. His work has served to expand and support the role of certified medical directorships and directorships in residency training programs and through the SF Consortium – San Francisco Free Clinic (an affiliate of UCSF and Yale Medical Schools), has provided access to 'award winning' community-based primary health care for the urban uninsured and underserved, along with providing clinical instruction to medical students and residents with wife, Kate McElroy Fullerton.
Specifically within Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Facilities, Dr. Fullerton has provided medical care for the last 20 years. He sits on the Board of Directors of the CA Chapter of AMDA (American Medical Directors Association) through (CALTCM - California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine) and serves as the Chair of Public Policy for the State of California.
He has served as the Medical Director for Country Villa Novato and Country Villa San Rafael in Southern Marin for more than five years. Considered among the finest skilled nursing facilities in California, Dr. Fullerton’s Medical Residents rotating in Geriatrics from St. Mary’s Medical Center train at both Country Villa Novato and Country Villa San Rafael, as well as the Marin County office at Aegis of Corte Madera (Assisted Living Facility) deemed geriatric program training sites.
Over the past eleven years Dr. Fullerton has remained an active clinical faculty member at some of the most prestigious universities in the nation. As a Clinical Instructor at Yale University, as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine for UCSF and as a Clinical Preceptor at Stanford University, he has provided teaching and mentoring to countless students and residents rotating from UCSF, Stanford, Kaiser, CPMC, UCLA and USC. Additionally, as a clinical preceptor to the Stanford as well as the Samuel Merritt University Primary Care Associates Program, physician assistant students (PA-S) rotate and train through the Country Villa Skilled Nursing Facilities and the Marin office at Aegis of Corte Madera.
The role of Hampton Health in Hospitals and Post-Acute Facilities includes clinical instruction and treatment of patients within the settings of medical schools, post-acute facilities, medical residencies, Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner schools, and nursing schools in the content areas of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospice, palliative care, addiction medicine, lifestyle medicine, Certified Diabetic Education, health coaching, and employee health.