“In the beginning was the Word… ” — John 1:1
Journal
The issues and information that surround community health are both complex and continuously changing. At GraceMed, we believe it is part of our responsibility as one of the largest providers of community healthcare in the region to keep our patients and the communities we serve as informed as possible. We take on a wide variety of these subjects in our State of Grace magazine while also keeping you informed about our evolving mission to serve the underserved. You can browse through past issues of State of Grace here. We feature selected articles from the magazine in the Journal below from time to time as well as a wide variety of information about GraceMed news, health topics and even the occasional healthy recipe.
National Health Center Week
National Health Center Week is August 7 through 13 this year. It’s a time set aside to recognize the valuable contribution that health clinics in the communities that they serve. Community health centers were on the front-line of America’s health crises long before COVID-19.
In Praise of APRNs
In the midst of what is rapidly becoming a scorching drought of physicians, GraceMed would simply not survive were it not for the many APRNs who we are blessed to have on our staff. Advanced Practice Registered Nurses have taken their training to a much higher level that prepares them to provide most of the services you would expect to receive from a primary care physician.
Here is Water . . .
GraceMed announces a bold, multi-faceted initiative to remove obstacles between the underserved and their healthcare.
A Tale of Two New Pharmacies
As Mary Poppins once famously noted, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” But anyone who has tried to fill a prescription any time in recent history will tell you, it also takes a lot more than a spoonful of money just to purchase the medicine in the first place. Between 2014 and 2020, drug prices increased a whopping 33%.
Smiles to warm your heart
It takes a special kind of person to travel to hundreds of Kansas schools week after week, year after year, lugging heavy equipment, to treat the smiles of thousands of underserved school kids. That’s what the heroes who make up GraceMed’s Dental Outreach Team do with inspiring enthusiasm.
Fishers of the Uninsured
It’s 6:48 on a Wednesday morning, and Juven Nava and Diego Romero are departing GraceMed’s Administrative Center and heading for a stampede. It’s the Country Kicker Stampede, a country music outdoor concert in Topeka. They’ll pitch their tent for three days among the concert patrons to offer their help to the uninsured among them.