Loving Your Neighbors
We hosted a wonderful day-long planning visit/retreat with a group of colleagues from the Jericho Road Community Health Center this past Monday. Starting with a small family medicine practice in inner city Buffalo, NY over 15 years ago, Jericho Road has grown into a rapidly-expanding Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with 2 locations that serves a large population of inner city residents and refugees. Their experience matches ours in so many ways that we’re feeling called to work in mutually supportive ways as we grow and reach out to our respective communities. We’ll keep...
Read MoreOur New Care Manager
We invite you to join us in welcoming Babette Burgan, RN, MSW, to our office staff as our new Care Manager. Supported by our clinical care teams and undergirded by a generous CMMI Practice Improvement grant, Babette brings her strong faith and a wealth of education and experience to her interdisciplinary position. As not only a Registered Nurse but as a trained and experienced Licensed Master Social Worker, she is already working with our care teams to identify and proactively manage the care needs of high risk patients in our practice. Among other tasks, her role includes providing...
Read MoreRooted
One of our dedicated Board Members, Michael Braun, and I just returned from a very energizing national conference in Atlanta, GA – the annual gathering of the Christian Community Health Fellowship (CCHF). Since the early days in the late 1970s when there were only a handful of centers like ours around the country, CCHF has grown to represent over a hundred clinics who are committed to living out the gospel through healthcare among the poor. We were inspired, challenged, and encouraged and have returned to Rochester with renewed vigor in carrying out our mission locally. Part of what...
Read MoreEO and Grace Family Medicine
Many of you know that Sandi and others at Embracing Options are busy quietly meeting with young women in crisis (over 200 this year), offering pregnancy tests, counseling regarding abstinence and STDs, and helping the girls find pro-life solutions to their dilemmas. These are complex problems in lives that are mixed up and sometimes appear hopeless. Many come to Christ as the gospel is shared and their lives turn around. What you may not be aware of is that often these girls find a safe place for prenatal care at Grace Family Medicine where Dr. Morehouse goes on to deliver their rescued...
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