Editor:

On behalf of John Muir Health, I would like to congratulate Dr. Hugh Maiocco on his retirement and more than 50 years of service to the community. We will certainly miss him, as I know his patients will as well. He is a tremendous physician, but an even better person.

We also owe him a debt of gratitude for helping to establish John Muir Medical Group in Brentwood. We are about to celebrate our 10th anniversary in Brentwood and our 5th year in the John Muir Health Outpatient Center. Dr. Maiocco helped us start with just a few physicians and now we offer the community nearly a dozen physicians, who practice family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics.

We know we will continue to see Dr. Maiocco and his wife, Carol, being very active in the community. We look forward to caring for his patients and continuing to help meet the health care needs of this community. While we certainly can’t replace Dr. Maiocco, we can carry on his legacy of caring for not only the physical ailments of his patients, but caring about them as people and fellow members of the community he loves.

Dr. John Zuorski

President, John Muir Medical Group