Here's What's Happening!
We've got a lot going on! Take a look!
March 9 - Red Cross Blood Drive at PHC
(details below)
March 12 - Canyons Ski Patrol Fundraiser at Harry-O's to benefit PHC.
April 8 - Park City Cocktail Contest to benefit PHC at Wahso - 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
July 8-11 - Park City Food and Wine Fest to benefit PHC. Details to follow. Lots of volunteers needed!
We need your help! To volunteer for any event, please contact
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Blood Drive
We are out to set a record - most blood ever given in a Park City area Red Cross drive. Donations will go to our own Park City Medical Center.
Tuesday, March 9
2 - 7 p.m.
@ People's Health
We need 12 volunteers and lots of blood donors.
Contact
If you have questions about your eligibility to give, you can call the Red Cross Donor Care Center at (800) 737-0902 | |
Greetings!
If anyone thought patients would have a tough time finding PHC at our new location, they needn't have worried The Clinic is buzzing, especially since mid-January. In fact, the month of January brought us 115 new patients. Our demographics are changing as well: the percentage of Caucasian patients in January was up 50% over 2009, and there has been a significant increase in the percentage of male patients.
We are glad that more and more uninsured people who need medical care are seeking it at PHC. This growth in patients makes our volunteer recruitment all the more important, so if you know of any providers who would like to donate their services, either at PHC or in their own offices, please let them know about us! |
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Film Benefit for PHC Explores Healthcare's "Critical Condition"
PC Film Series Reel Community Project screens a different documentary each month to benefit a local nonprofit, and last Thursday was our turn! Diane and Neil Mellen sponsored the PBS film "Critical Condition". The audience was moved by the stories of four Americans who suffered terribly because they lacked insurance. One man could not afford medication which would have kept him healthy and working. Another person discovered cancer at a much-too-advanced stage because she couldn't find a specialist who would see due to her finances. A third person lost his foot due to untreated diabetes. Throughout the film I could not help but think about the patients we see every day who, but for PHC, would be in similar straits.
The film was followed by a Q&A with Judi Hillman, Executive Director of the Utah Health Policy Project. Her organization works for health reform at the state and federal level. She shared a short (really!) paper that clarifies the legislation currently before the U.S. Congress.
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You've Created This Place Where Doctors Help People Every Day
"How can it be?" Max Gobba asks. "When a place like People's Health has volunteer doctors and asks only for donations as payment, you expect to have a lower quality of care. But instead, it's the place you really feel cared for. This is where the doctors seem so passionate, and the front desk staff is more interested in getting you in to see the doctor than they are in paperwork. You'd think the more you pay, the better the care. I don't believe that anymore."
Max Gobba is the manager of a local restaurant who had to leave his job in 2007 due to chronic low back pain. When he had insurance, the doctors he saw were unable to find anything that brought relief or solved the problem. When he could no longer work, he no longer had insurance. So he came to PHC. Here, a volunteer doctor was also stymied by his symptoms. He began to suspect that the problem didn't stem from Max's lower back at all, and referred him to a specialist. The problem turned out to be intestinal, and required surgery. Though it took him a year to pay the hospital bill, Max feels lucky. His pain is almost gone, and he's working again. He credits the persistence of his volunteer doc at PHC for the change in his life.
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Jeremy Ranch Elementary Donates Books to
New PHC Literacy Program
Noticing how many children visit the Clinic with their mothers during PHC's Wednesday Prenatal Clinics, Sarah Klingenstein, Community Outreach Coordinator and former Reading Specialist, saw an opportunity! Why not provide children's books in the waiting room and recruit volunteers to read to the children on Wednesdays? PHC volunteer Maddy Shear stepped forward to organize "Stories to Grow On". Donations have helped build a supply of books - most recently a gift of over $300 worth of English and bilingual books from the Jeremy Ranch PTO. The money was raised at their recent bookfair and Sarah and Maddy were invited to select books that would most appeal to PHC families.
The ultimate goal of the program is to give books away to children when they visit the Clinic - especially bilingual books in English and Spanish. If you would like to contribute, or volunteer in the waiting room (no Spanish needed), please call Sarah at (435) 333-1870 or
Suzy Turnlund, one of the JRES Bookfair Organizers,
and Sarah Klingenstein, PHC Community Outreach Coordinator |
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