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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.

12/13/21 12/13/21

Tidings of Comfort & Joy

The paramedics had already taken Maria to the hospital when Chaplain Clarence Newton arrived at our Capitol Family Clinic. Despite their best efforts, they were unable to revive her. He caught up with Vincente, her husband of more than 36 years, at the emergency room.

12/20/19 12/20/19

Milton's Story

Sometimes the wounds are self inflicted. And the treatment requires trust.

12/11/19 12/11/19

Crystal's Story

When you meet Crystal Loffland, you’d never guess it by her friendly demeanor, but she’s actually in a great deal of pain. For the past ten years, she has woken with it, gone to work with it, raised her children and even helped raise a grandchild with it. And we’re not talking about a dull headache. As Crystal describes it, “It would rather have the pain of childbirth than this kind of pain.”

11/21/19 11/21/19

So Happy to be a Patient

After 31 years as a GraceMed patient, Lou Ewertt knows the value of Hopecare

8/14/19 8/14/19

Joe Cheray: Friend of Tennessee Town

Just behind GraceMed’s Capitol Family Clinic in Topeka is a park dedicated to the memory of Aaron Douglas, regarded by many as the founding father of African American art. Douglas was born in Topeka, just a generation or so after the historic migration of freed slaves, largely from Tennessee, to the neighborhoods in north central Topeka that would come to be known as Tennessee Town.

4/22/19 4/22/19

A Listening History with GraceMed Guild Founder Kerin Smith

No one has been engaged in serving GraceMed longer than Kerin Smith and her husband, Jim. She worked as a nurse from 1992 to 1995, then served on the Board of Directors and finally founded the GraceMed Guild — a group of volunteers for GraceMed— where she continues to serve today.