MD Breakfast/Retreat
On Saturday morning, September 23
medical students and community physicians will be converging on Rochester from the Western NY region to kick off our first Upstate MCCF Retreat with a stimulating day of feasting, fellowship, and education. The day will start at 8:00 am with our Fall Christian Physicians Breakfast where Dr. Daniel Fountain, MD, MPH, will begin the first in a series of 5 informative and discussion-provoking sessions on the provocative topic:
“What’s wrong with US health care and how can we fix it?”
Schedule
- 8:00 Registration and Breakfast (note early start)
- 9:00 Problems with the biomedical model and the US health care system
- 10:00 Restoring wholeness to medicine from both scientific and biblical perspectives
- 11:00 Wholistic approaches to common psychosocial problems
- Noon: Lunch, Medical Student Gathering, and Discussion
- 1:30 How to do a personal and spiritual assessment
- 2:30 The logistics of forming a care giving team
- 3:30 Retreat ends
The Retreat will be hosted at The Meliora (Faculty Club) on the University of Rochester River Campus and includes lunch. We’ll be wrapping up by mid-afternoon on Saturday to allow those participating to return to their full lives without undue interruption.
Physicians will be eligible to receive up to 5 hours of Category I CME credit for their participation in the Saturday sessions. This promises to be a wonderful time of spiritual nurture and growth and will be an ideal opportunity to welcome medical students to a regional fellowship of faith.
Cost? $50 for practicing providers and $25 for students for all sessions and meals. 5 CME credits are available for an additional $50 fee. You’re warmly encouraged to participate in as many of the retreat events as your schedule will allow, so please mark your calendars and sign up now!
CCHF Annual Conference
Health Care for the Underserved
This year’s conference, May 18-21 at Eastern College in Philadelphia, will address the theme of Spiritual Inheritance for the Next Generation. Convinced that investing in equipping the next generation is capacity building at its best, the theme will be reciprocally important for veteran, new, and emerging Christian health care professionals. Plenary Speakers will include:
- Christine Sines, M.D. Physician, professor and author who faithfully assists churches and Christian organizations to engage the challenges of the 21st century.
- David Hilfiker, M.D. Physician, activist and author who has committed his life to social justice in the practice of his professions and living among the poor.
- Kenneth Robinson, M.D. Pastor, physician, and Commissioner for the Tennessee Dept. of Health whose passion is holistic and comprehensive approaches to public health and individual well-being.
- Ruth Naomi Floyd, Christian jazz recording artist, will serenade the group in a special evening of coffee house jazz on Friday evening.
Click here to download a conference brochure. We’re planning to have at least one carload from Rochester and another one from Buffalo attend this year. Contact us if you’re interested in participating.
Dr. Morehouse Honored
The Rochester Business Journal
has recognized Dr. Morehouse as one of 3 physician recipients of its 2005 Health Care Achievement Award! This award, now its third year, was created to recognize excellence, promote innovation, and honor organizations and individuals who are making a significant impact on the quality of health care in our area.
Three tables of well-wishers joined nearly 350 members of the community in honoring Dr. Morehouse at a special Awards Luncheon on April 12. Dr. Ralph Pennino was the keynote speaker and spoke about his experience as a medical volunteer with InterVol, a missions support group he was instrumental in founding.
Click the image below for a larger version of the Rochester Business Journal article.
Dr. Daniel Fountain Coming
Dr. Daniel Fountain, MD, MPH
will be presenting a three-day workshop in the Greater Rochester area on “Caring for the Whole Person” and will be the speaker at our Breakfast on January 22 on the last day of the workshop. The course will be open to pastors, counselors, and health professionals in our region with 21 hours of CME credit offered to physicians who complete the entire course.
Dr. Fountain is the author of numerous books in English and French on community health, primary health care, and care for the whole person and served as a missionary physician in Kenya for 35 years before returning to the States where he is currently the Director of the Center for Global Health at King College.
Click here to view the Workshop Schedule.
Grace Family Medicine News
His Branches seeks clinic designation
Under the guidance of our new Executive Director, Scott Sittig, we are actively in the process of establishing the services offered by the physicians at Grace Family Medicine Associates as a Diagnostic and Treatment Facility under Article 28 of New York’s Public Health Law, a designation that will help us to expand the scope of the clinical care we offer to better serve the needs of the community.
The doctors in the practice are at full capacity and yet are receiving multiple requests for expansion of their services to new patients. In conjunction with a major transition to a new software package that keeps charts entirely electronically, the office is really “hopping”! Please pray that we will have God’s wisdom and favor as we pursue the Article 28 license and make decisions for how to grow and expand our services.
Hopefully by the end of 2004, the application will be in the hands of the New York State Department of Health for review by the various departments and we ask for the Lord’s favor with each and every one!
GFM Picnic in Cohocton
On a warm, sunny day
earlier this month Grace Family Medicine held its annual staff picnic at the Morehouse family property in Steuben County, and we all had a great time.
The weather cooperated wonderfully; the swimming was very refreshing; and the s’mores were as sticky-sweet as ever!
Here’s the twilight gang hanging out and loading up marshmallows for making s’mores…
Question:
Did we really come this far out into the country without being eaten by wild animals?. For more pics, click here!
Meet Our CEO, Dr. Morehouse
I'm a happy person who loves getting to know and being able to help people of all ages. I connect with little children (and the little child in most adults) almost immediately. Sharing the joys and trials of relationships, pregnancy and delivery, and family life are the things about family practice that really light my fire. I've found that having a sense of humor and seeing God's love at work can see us through some of life's most difficult times, if we can keep the faith and hang in there together. 
