Winter 2014 - Mercy Health Clinic

Winter 2014
Mercy Health Clinic is a free, not-forprofit, non-sectarian, community
based primary health care provider
serving uninsured, low-income
adult residents of Montgomery
County, Maryland. The Clinic, with
more than 150 dedicated volunteers,
is committed to continually seeking
ways to improve and expand the
quality of medical care, health education and medicines it provides free
of charge to eligible patients.
11th Annual Mercy Health Clinic
Golf Classic–A Hole In One Day!
he 11th Annual Mercy Health Clinic
Golf Classic was a success with over
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$100,000 raised for the Clinic and the
Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Mercy Health Clinic relies on support
from individuals, corporations,
foundations, civic organizations and
religious groups who generously
donate their time, talent and
resources to the Clinic and the
patients it serves.
WINNERS! Eric Schuch, Jason Apolenis, Curtis O’Keefe, Bryan Taylor
Carl Nordberg Pharmacy program. Held
at Manor Country Club again this year,
with presenting sponsor Roberts Home
Medical and Roberts Oxygen, the course
provided the perfect setting for our
golfers, sponsors and volunteers. Blue
skies and crisp cool weather added to
the great day! The day was filled with
lots of golf fun with a putting contest,
$1 million shootout, hole-in-one contest
cars provided by Page Honda and Sheehy
AutoStores – in addition, the day included box lunches, cocktail reception and
buffet dinner. Prizes were given for closest to the pin, longest drive and the 3 top
low gross foursomes.
New Collaborations Benefit MHC Patients
Through our recent collaborations, Mercy Health Clinic is able to provide patients with access to the wonderful services
and benefits of two great non-profit organizations in our neighborhood.
Montgomery Hospice is a nonprofit serving residents of
Montgomery County. Their team of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, spiritual counselors, social workers, certified nursing assistants, bereavement counselors and volunteers works with patients and their families to provide
quality end-of-life care in homes, extended care facilities
and at Casey House, their acute care facility. They also
provide support to the family for a year after the death of
their loved one.
Through our collaboration with Montgomery Hospice, we
refer patients with terminal diagnoses to receive end of
life care.
Pain Connection is a non-profit organization dedicated
to empower people with chronic pain to improve their
quality of life, their sense of isolation and take a more
active role in their treatment.
Through our collaboration with the Pain Connection, we
refer our patients who suffer from chronic pain to receive
care and support.
They do this by providing support groups, specialized
classes, a speaker series on treatment modalities,
training and supervision of mental health professionals
on chronic pain, a newsletter on chronic pain issues,
information and referrals, and community outreach
and education.
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WE THANK OUR ADVERTISERS!
Golf Classic Volunteers: (L-R) Phil Dolan, Trina Hope, Joe Ciminelli, Mary
Pierce, Catherine Nordberg, Colleen Rodak, Julie Donatelli, Ashley Waters,
Alvina Long, Lyn Pierce, Fred Lostumbo
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Nancy Shahin Itteilag, Long & Foster
Bev & John Lane
Anne Killeen, Washington Fine Properties
Montgomery College
Our Lady of Mercy Church, Potomac, MD
EuroMotorcars Bethesda
Susan Butler Hurson, M.D.
Kenneth A. Blank, M.D.
Bill & Rita Olson
Blue Mash Golf Course
Richard J. Castiello, M.D.
Agnes Maroshek, Long & Foster
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Trina Hope
TTR Sotheby’s-Michael Rankin
Employee Spotlight
Rosemary Whelan,
RN, BSN
osemary has been a constant
smiling face since the first
day the Clinic opened its doors.
Seeing only 4 patients
that first day,
Rosemary has faithfully seen the Clinic
grow by leaps and
bounds! She continually strives to
improve patient
care, enhance efficiency and is as loyal
today as she was on that very first day.
We thank Rosemary for being an
exemplary member of the Mercy
Health Clinic team!
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GIVE WHERE
YOU LIVE
We are honored to be recognized by the
Catalogue for Philanthropy as “one of the best
small charities in Greater Washington”
after a rigorous review!
MERCY HEALTH CLINIC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Christopher Perez – Chairman
Marcos Pesquera – Vice-Chairman
David LaRoche – Secretary
Paul Sullivan, CPA – Treasurer
John Kleiderer – Executive Director
Priscilla Callahan, MD – Medical Director
Colleen Rodak, ACNP, CRNP – Clinical Director
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Mercy Health Clinic
Sally Jo Belcher, MD
Daniel Cochran
Joshua Jeffries
Steven Kariya, MD
Liz Lostumbo
Margaret O’Bryon
British Robinson
James Ronan, MD
The
POWER
POWER OF PINK.
OFPINK A heSUCCESS!
Third Annual Power of Pink
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event, in honor of breast cancer
survivor Jill Kougl, sister of Bethesda
resident Karen Leder, included over
120 participants and more than 150
donors who raised over $78,000 for
Mercy Health Clinic & Capital Breast
Care Center in SE Washington, DC.
Held at EQUINOX Fitness and
Redwood Restaurant in Bethesda,
attendees worked out and gathered
for lunch in support of these two nonprofit organizations that provide
breast education, screenings, patient
navigation services and needed treatment to the underserved of our community.
WE THANK POWER OF PINK!
Partnering with University of MD Schools
multi-disciplinary pilot project began this September at the Clinic, in collaboration with the University of
Maryland and the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. Inter-professional teams
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of students from several colleges within
the University (graduate school of social
work, nursing, pharmacy, and undergraduate social work) are providing holistic care
and well-being for complex medical
patients of the Clinic. Students engage in
topical discussions and see patients under
the preceptorship of faculty and staff at
the Clinic. Students work as a team and
maximize roles of various team members
to benefit our patients. The goals are to
enhance patient care and to expose students to inter-professional collaborative
Assistant Dean for the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy at the
practice. During this first pilot semester,
Universities at Shady Grove, Heather B. Congdon, PharmD, BCPS, CDE
an estimated 14 patients will be served.
(upper right), brings students to MHC. Congdon is also co-director of the
new Center for Interprofessional Education at the University of Maryland
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Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Michael Baranowsky, Lou Donatelli, Chris Donatelli, Ryan Mason
Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Dave Hayward, Ginny Hayward, Mary Irene Taplin, Tap Taplin
Mike Kissinger, Mike Bergman, Bill Page, Fred Meyer
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Mercy Health Clinic
Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Rusty Pies, Michael Vito, Jim Vito, Scott Bowers
Photo by Elizabeth Dausch
Dr. Segal, Dr. Ronan, Jim Karrels, Joe Hills
Brian Bolter, Greg Doll, Sean Callebs, Chris Perez, Brent Kynoch, and Greg Houze had the distinction of
being the lowest-scoring six-some of the event!
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We Thank Our Golf Classic Sponsors!
PRESENTING SPONSOR
Roberts Oxygen/
Roberts Home Medical
FLAG SPONSOR
Vito Plumbing
BEVERAGE CART SPONSOR
MEP, Medical Emergency Physicians
McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP
Phil Dolan
PUTTING CONTEST
SPONSORS
RECEPTION SPONSOR
Adventist HealthCare
Mercy Health Clinic
Board of Directors
TROPHY SPONSORS
FOURSOME SPONSORS
Jason Apolenis
Michael Baranowsky
Denchfield Landscaping
Therese Shaheen-DiRita &
Lawrence DiRita
Christopher Donatelli
Lou Fiorentino
MillerCoors
Bill Page Honda
Dr. James Ronan
RFS Gives Back Foundation
SIBRIDGE Consulting
Closest to the Pin (Mens)
Domino’s Pizza
Ed Treacy
Closest to the Pin (Ladies)
Sullivan & Company, CPAs
Longest Drive (Mens)
Giant Peter
MEP
Longest Drive (Ladies)
Evermay Wealth Management
Sullivan & Company, CPAs
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Mercy Health Clinic
Kevin B. Clark and
Nancy Ripp Clark, M.D.
HOLE SPONSORS
Patrice and Scott Brickman
Cynthia and Raymond Chappell
Sharon & Barry Covington
EagleBank
Bank of Georgetown - Michael
Fitzgerald
HSU Builders
Karen and John Jaeger
Michael Kirvan, Merrill Lynch
Alvina and Laurence Long
Natelli Homes
Bill Page Honda
Lorraine & Peter Plamondon
Victoria Trumbower
PerryUndem
Jean Roesser
Kerri & Bill Sharabi
Sheehy Auto Stores
Standard Properties
Glory and Tom Sullivan
Sullivan & Company, CPAs
SunDun Office Refreshments
Watkins Meegan
Laura & Benito Zapata
FRIENDS OF THE CLINIC
Mr. and Mrs. James Boler
Patrick J. Bowen, M.D.
Theresa & Manus Cooney
Debby and Larry Demaree
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Emmet
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Finney
Jeanne Furst
Gefke Family
Vince Gesiskie
Susan Herbert
Linda and William Kirvan, Jr.
Gerald L. Kohlenberger
Mr. and Mrs. John Lyman
Sharon & Frank Menaker
Joseph O’Toole
Jack P. Segal, M.D.
Carol Shea
Scott Smedira
Ian J. Spence, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Swift
Charles Yarborough, M.D.
New Partnership with
Columbia Lighthouse
for the Blind
hrough a new partnership with the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, optometrists will provide diabetic
retinopathy screening to our diabetic patients. The goal is to provide all diabetic patients with a free
screening annually since they are at higher risk of blindness. Screenings will take place at the Clinic, using
our on-site ophthalmology equipment. MHC is fortunate to have two volunteer ophthalmologists serving
patients at the Clinic: Dr. Raymond Pilkerton and Dr. Murray Hammerman. This new partnership will supplement their work and enable more diabetic patients to receive the screenings they need.
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Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind provides a comprehensive, integrated range of services including low
vision care and rehabilitation, job development training, and employment for people of all ages who are
visually impaired or blind, to enable them to remain independent.
Meet James F. Duffy,
M.D., S.J.
near constant presence at Mercy Health
Clinic, Fr. Dr. Duffy, is a
board certified internist
and a Jesuit Priest-and
volunteer extraordinare!
Fr. Duffy is an assistant
professor and associate
dean at the Georgetown
University School of
Medicine. Throughout his Jesuit formation, he
acquired an M.A. in Health Care Ethics from Loyola
University in Chicago, and an M. Div. from the
Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA, while
practicing in inner city under-served health care
settings.
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Fr. Dr. Duffy will be leaving us in January 2015 for
an 8 month program in Santiago, Chili, to complete his Jesuit Formation. But we will welcome
him back in September of 2015.
Thanks to generous grant support from the Order
of Malta Association USA, we are able to hire a
provider to fill in for Fr. Dr. Duffy during his temporary absence. Thank you, Order of Malta!
Although we will miss him greatly, he has promised to come back! We wish Fr. Dr. Duffy a safe
journey and we look forward to his return.
Patient Story Corner
eet Zenaida. When she first visited us over 3
years ago, she was in need of serious medical
care. Mercy Health Clinic provided her with a
mammogram, colonoscopy,
and a full physical, in addition
to cardiac care and two knee
replacement surgeries.
Zenaida says with a smile,
“I thank God first and then all
the staff and volunteers of
Mercy Health Clinic because I
feel great, and I am back to
work!”
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Announcing NEW
Board Members
• Daniel Cochran, CFO, Shady Grove
Adventist Hospital
• Liz Lostumbo, Retired Director, National
Resident Matching Program and longtime
volunteer and friend of the Clinic
• Margaret O’Bryon, former president and
CEO of the Consumer Health Foundation
• British Robinson, CEO, Women’s Heart
Alliance
Please remember Mercy Health Clinic in your Will.
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