Archives Title Image
Sarah K
Increase in Patients Requires More Medical Providers
Can you help? Our valiant staff and volunteers cared for patients through 8,600 visits last year, a number that has grown every year since we began in 2000. We are looking for medical providers, especially family practitioners or internal medicine specialists. According to Volunteer Coordinator Patti Peters in a recent article in the Park Record, [...]
Clinic wins Select25 Award
The People’s Health Clinic is one of 25 organizations, selected from a pool of 360 applicants, to receive the $2,500 award. The Select25 awards program from Selectcare supports those who encourage healthy behaviors or serve special populations. The Clinic will use the funds to provide glasses for 100 uninsured children in Summit and Wasatch Counties. [...]
Improving Care for Patients with Blood Clots
A Wonderful Patient-Doctor-Business Collaboration Brings Instant Test Results to our Lab Treating patients who have had or are in danger of developing blood clots is not simple. The powerful anti-coagulant medication (warfarin) that our doctors prescribe is powerful, so its effects on must be closely monitored and adjustments made. Until recently,blood test results took two to three [...]
Congratulations to People’s Health Clinic’s Volunteers of the Year 2011
2011 Volunteers of the Year Rich Cannon, MD Sandae Bonare, Certified Nurse Midwife Shirley Wright Volunteers make the Clinic run, from our beginning in a mobile van eleven years ago, to today! We are very proud to recognize the work of all volunteers who collectively represent 22 medical specialties and gave more than 6,800 hours [...]
We CAN Change the Course of our Lives
Sometimes we need a little help along the way. When People’s Health started its mobile clinic in 2000, Martha sought help for her uncontrolled diabetes. But she didn’t follow the recommended diet or exercise advice until she lost the eyesight in one eye. It took Mariely Ferrer, Clinic Coodinator, telling her firmly but very kindly [...]
President of Clinic’s Youth Board is Honored for Building Bridges in the Community
Nicole Chang, the Student Body President at Treasure Mountain Junior High School and renowned concert pianist, was recently awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Leadership Award from the University of Utah’s Office for Equity and Diversity. In addition to serving as the student body president, Chang represents Treasure Mountain Junior High on the Park [...]
ManagementPlus Contributes $140,000 in Electronic Health Records Software
Advanced Electronic Health Record technology, normally well out of the price range for a nonprofit clinic of our size, will go on line in early 2012 A big change in patient care is coming to the People’s Health Clinic. In December, Clinic Executive Director Nann Worel was excited to announce the donation of an Electronic [...]
Thanks to you……
…..in 2011, the People’s Health Clinic continued to make our community healthier. By the end of this week. our staff and volunteers will have had 8,400 visits with patients, many of whom would otherwise not have seen a doctor. This represents a 23% increase over last year, very similar to our growth rates over the past [...]
Want to give yourself a gift?
Share your talents with others and get extreme satisfaction. The People’s Health Clinic operates because of its volunteers. The low cost of treating patients, keeping the clinic open and offering care to those in our community is possible only because of the people who step forward and offer their services. There is always a need [...]
Thanks for laughing with us!
Healthy Laughs was a ball last week! As one guest commented, “I can’t believe we had the opportunity to experience such top notch talent in the intimate setting of the Egyptian Theatre in our small town!” All ticket proceeds will go to caring for the patients at People’s Health.
Recent Comments