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April 2009
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215 W. 35th Street • Garden City, Idaho 83714 • www.genesisworldmission.org • 208.384.5218
Our Corner of the World 
On December 29, Regence Blue Shield Foundation announced a pilot grantto
Family Medical Residency of Idaho
(FMRI) to extend clinic services intoGarden City in coordination with the Garden City Community Clinic (GCCC).“We are proud to provide financial support for Family Medicine Residencyof Idaho’s innovative partnership with the clinic,” said Regence BlueShield of Idaho President
John Stellmon
. “For many low income residents, the onlyplace they can access affordable care locally is at the Garden City CommunityClinic.”The partnership began January 15
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and includes the use of the GCCCfacility on Monday and Friday mornings by the Residency’s Family PracticeMedical Center. During this time, a paid PA assesses and treats FMRI patientswho reside in Garden City. This is a real win-win situation for both safety-net providers. FMRI had run out of available clinic space at their Raymond Street location and GCCC had idle capacity during the day when volunteerdoctors were not as available. This allows FMRI to see more patients while bringing services closer to theirpatients’ homes and lowering transportation barriers.
Dr. Ted Epperly
, Executive Director of FMRI, explained that the Regence Foundation grant was pivotal tomaking this partnership possible. “We are so indebted. We want to develop a medical home for these patientswhich is easily accessible.” Dr. Epperly became President of the American Academy of Family Physicians last fall.Starting in April, FMRI will open Wednesday afternoon clinic hours, eventually working up to five half days aweek at the site. “It is exciting to see the building filling up and being used as it was intended—meeting theincredible healthcare needs of lower-income people in our valley,” said
Dr. Karl Watts
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The Garden City Community Clinic is receiving a significant number of calls requesting mental health services.With increasing economic stress in the Treasure Valley and ongoing government cutbacks, mental health care needsare on the rise with no end in sight. The Department of Health and Welfare is decreasing services in the recent clo-sure of the Franklin House (a short-term residential treatment center) leaving fewer treatment facilities in the valleyto meet the growing need.Rising to the immediate challenge, GCCC renewed a partnership with The Methodist Counsel-ing Center and other community providers to address these needs. The Methodist CounselingCenter provides low-cost counseling to individuals, couples and families. The partnership allowsGCCC access to counseling providers for current patients and non-patients calling the clinic insearch of services. Joe Ramaker, a Masters of Counseling student, now provides counseling un-der Dr. Fred Hoadley’s supervision twice a week for Genesis patients at no charge.Boise State University placed Audrey Mitchell, a Masters of Social Work student, as an internto provide comprehensive social work assessments and referrals.Volunteer psychologist, Dr Bill Arnold, and our volunteer medical director, Dr. Andrew Ol-nes, have also increased their involvement to help develop our mental health services.Genesis is proud to play a small part in the healing process by providing the community with mental health re-sources that offer patients hope, health strategies and much needed care.
 
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PEFA Mercy Ministries, our partners in Kenya, have been working hard to beginoffering dental services to the community of Ndumberi, Kenya. On March 28th, thelocal church, the PEFA National Church and government officials joined together todedicate the dental and medical clinic. This is an important new service for the thiscommunity—there is an estimated 700 dentists for 32 million people in Kenya!The clinic opens this month with the hiring of a dental coordinator. The project isself-funding and will open a revenue stream to help subsidize medical operations. Weare grateful for the support of 89.5 FM KTSY Radio which kick-started this effort with funds raised through the Bridgethe Gap Bike Ride last August, as well as individual donors.Please join in prayer as the clinic continues to meet the medical, physical, emotional and spiritual needs in their com-munity. Edith (medical clinic director) included these prayer requests in her February correspondence:
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Pray that the community we serve may be open to the Gospel.
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For continued strength and power and a word that is effective as we share with our patients.
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Pray for Kenya, as we have had two fire accidents where more than 150 people perished and hundreds were injured.
Edith also reports:
 A 76 year old patient came to our clinic after having been treated inanother place for one year. After examination, our provider found traces of cervical cancer and referred her to the Kenyatta National Hospital. The family came back later to thank the clinic for the diagno-sis and she is now on chemotherapy.
 
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Downtown Boise
927 W Myrtle St
Meridian
2929 E Magic View Drive
Eagle Health Plaza
323 E Riverside Dr
Saint Alphonsus MRI
1055 Curtis Rd
Park Center 
161 E Mallard Dr. Ste 130(Recently opened in January2009)
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The Garden City Community Clinic has been provid-ing dental care since 2006. Last year, the dental clinic sus-pended its services for a few months during remodeling.Two new dedicated dental operatories and a sterilizationroom were created. After reopening in July, dental ser-vices have been running every Friday morning providingbasic assessment and restorative services. Ten differentdentists, along with several dental assistants, have beenvolunteering at the clinic at regular intervals to make surethat the clinic’s patients can access to dental care on aweekly basis.In March we were very happy to resume dental hygieneservices, which had not operated since December 2007.Patients will now receive cleanings as part of their treat-ment plan to assist in meeting their dental needs. We al-ready have four hygienists who have volunteered to seepatients on a regular basis. With these cleanings and pre-ventative care education, we believe our patients will ex-perience a decrease in the number of restorative proceduresthey would otherwise need in the future.“We feel this is an important addition to our clinic,”says Dr. John Hisel, volunteer Dental Director. “Oralhealth is highly connected to our overall health, especiallyas it relates to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and repro-ductive health.”We are grateful to our partners and volunteers for theirgifts and talents in being a part of rebuilding this successfuldental program. We especially want to thank PattersonDental Supply and Hu-Friedy Dental Supply for their dona-tions of over $4,000 in new dental supplies this year.
Dental Care in Kenya Prior to Clinic
The International Strategic Vision of Genesis World Mission is to expressthe love of Jesus Christ by leading,coordinating and encouragingsustainable human health servicesthrough local and international part-nerships in under-served countries.
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3APRIL 2009
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BEGINS
 
Athletic TrainingCenter:
Ashlee Dagoberg, DPT
Foothills PhysicalTherapy
:Nicholas Woods MSPT,OCS, COMTFrank Culbertson PT J. Brooks Aberg, DPTTeresa DeBlieck, MPT, MS Jerret Hopstad, MPTAnthony Kinney, DPT, OCSDebbie Marquez, MPT, MSBrian O’Neal, DPT, ATC
Rheumatology:
Mikael Lagwinski, MD
Physical Medicine &Rehabilitation
Michael McMartin, MDRodde Cox, MDKevin Krafft, MDVic Kadyan, MD
OB/GYN:
 Jenni Bradley, MD John Dufurrena, MD Julie Stevens, NP Jill Dawson, NP Jenny Newman, NP
Radiology:
Adam S. Maxfield, MDTony Bell, MDDrew Hill, MD
back to the communityto people who are trulyin need in a proactivemanner. I’ve knownmany very generousphysicians in my ca-reer in emergencymedicine.”First and foremost,Dr. Martin intends tohelp facilitate access tohealth care for people who would not be able to becauseof their financial status. Secondly, he hopes to allow spe-cialists to give in a proactive manner with the leastamount of administrative hassle. His third goal is to pre-sent to the rest of the community the need, the statisticsof the need and recognize those providers who are sogenerous with their services.Dr. Martin enjoys gardening as a hobby and coachedlacrosse for many years.
 
The Volunteer Physicians Network (VPN) has beenserving patients in three of Ada County’s safety-net clin-ics since 2006. Since its inception, VPN has acknowl-edged that the need for specialty care beyond countylines; but due to original funding, was restricted to AdaCounty. With the expertise and relationships that VPNhas built, we recognize our role in helping serve theseneeds is crucial.Thus, VPN began working with
Terry Reilly HealthServices-Nampa
last fall to figure out a way for this suc-cessful referral network to open up to Canyon Countyneeds. This February, Genesis World Mission signed aone-year contract that provides funding for this effort.With the help of a VPN Advisory Committee, a newvolunteer medical director and a database improvementproject, these efforts are now underway. The infrastruc-ture necessary to support the influx of projected patientsincludes making sure that we have strong relationshipswith Canyon County partners and specialists prior to theexpansion. It is our goal to be able to open this network up to Canyon County participation by summer’s end.
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In the short history of Genesis World Mission, al-most half of the employees who have left have done so inorder to pursue medical education. Well, it’s happenedagain: VPN Coordinator
Katie Fisher
was accepted tothe Idaho State University PA program to begin this fall.We are now accepting applications for this full-timeposition to begin July 1. A successful candidate would beable to lead the development and maintenance of thisweb-based specialist referral system, with strong commu-nication skills and mix between task and people skills.(An interest in pursuing a career in medicine seems to bea good indicator too!)If you are interested in applying for this position,please address cover letters to
Hillary Roethlisberger
 along with your resume before April 30th.
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In January, the board recognized the need to create avolunteer medical director position for VPN, freeing Dr.Watts who has overseen the inception and growth of theprogram. This “infant” program has grown rapidly and itis now at a size and capacity that requires physician in-sight and consultation on a weekly basis.
Dr. William“Weeb” Martin
was selected for this role.Dr. Martin is a retired emergency medicine physicianwho practiced at both Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke’s. Hechose to become involved with VPN because, “There issuch an incredible need for health care in our community.There are so many physicians would also like to giveback but they can’t get away from their specialties, prac-tices or family responsibilities. VPN allows them to give
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