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May 2015 Dear Friends The whole world honors nurses this month. Here in the US, we mark National Nurse Day on May 6th, while other countries celebrate International Nurses’ Day on May 12th. To all the nurses at Mary’s Center, I say thank you for looking after our patients in such a caring and compassionate way, especially our immigrant patients as they navigate the sometimes complex and intimidating health care system in this country. In fact, it was the nurses I met as a young immigrant girl who inspired me to pursue this profession. As a child and a tree climber, I ended up being treated in the emergency room several times and had to have a cast on my leg and on an arm at different times, all under the care of amazing nurses. Interacting with the nurses helped me to channel my interest in science and math and decide to go to nursing school, one of the smartest decisions I ever made. As a nurse I learned to be courageous and creative, to make decisions quickly, and to take action while keeping compassion and integrity as my compass. Those skills have served me well over the years. I see similar characteristics in the Mary’s Center nurses. There is the nurse who goes out of his or her way to make sure that the patient understands how to take their medication. There is the nurse who brings staff together to acknowledge great team work and support each other. There is the nurse who is enthusiastic about starting a medical assistant program. There is the nurse who works hard to understand Mary’s Center’s partnerships and to breakdown any obstacles for the sake of the patients. And there are the awards that they receive, like the one Vivian Cativo, our Nurse Manager at Ontario pictured below, just won from the Centers for Disease Control, the CDC 2015 Childhood Immunization Champion Award for the District of Columbia! She truly deserves the recognition for her commitment all these years. Well done and keep up the good work Vivian! We also honor mothers on Sunday May 10 th . Motherhood is another challenging job which also requires a mix of tenderness and toughness. The 7 th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, put it best when he paid tribute to his mother, saying: “There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness.” To all those gentle doves and brave lionesses, the mothers and grandmothers who keep our communities strong, I salute you on your day. Much health and joy to you and your families all year long! Warmly, Maria S. Gomez, President and CEO MC News May 10th: Happy Mother’s Day! Our Caring Nurses In celebration of National Nurse Day (May 6 th ) and National Nurse Week (May 6- 12 th ), we say thank you to our more than 20 nurses at our four locations and CCIN for the wonderful work they do and the commitment they show every day. Ten of our nurses are pictured here congratulating Vivian Cativo, Nurse Manager at Ontario, on the CDC Childhood Immunization Champion award she received last week. Our nurses are definitively the heart of our services. We honor them on their day!
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May 2015
Dear Friends
The whole world honors nurses this month. Here in the US, we mark National Nurse Day on May 6th, while other countries celebrate International Nurses’ Day on May 12th. To all the nurses at Mary’s Center, I say thank you
for looking after our patients in such a caring and compassionate way, especially our immigrant patients as they navigate the sometimes complex and intimidating health care system in this country.
In fact, it was the nurses I met as a young immigrant girl who inspired me to pursue this profession. As a child and a tree climber, I ended up being treated in the emergency room several times and had to have a cast on my leg and on an arm at different times, all under the care of amazing nurses. Interacting with the nurses helped me to channel my interest in science and math and decide to go to nursing school, one of the smartest decisions I ever made. As a nurse I learned to be courageous and creative, to make decisions quickly, and to take action while keeping compassion and integrity as my compass. Those skills have served me well over the years.
I see similar characteristics in the Mary’s Center nurses. There is the nurse who goes out of his or her way to make sure that the patient understands how to take their medication. There is the nurse who brings staff together to acknowledge great team work and support each other. There is the nurse who is enthusiastic about starting a medical assistant program. There
is the nurse who works hard to understand Mary’s Center’s partnerships and to breakdown any obstacles for the sake of the patients. And there are the awards that they receive, like the one Vivian Cativo, our Nurse Manager at Ontario pictured below, just won from the Centers for Disease Control, the CDC 2015 Childhood Immunization Champion Award for the District of Columbia! She truly deserves the recognition for her commitment all these years. Well done and keep up the good work Vivian!
We also honor mothers on Sunday May 10th. Motherhood is another challenging job which also requires a mix of tenderness and toughness. The 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, put it best when he paid tribute to his mother, saying: “There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness.”
To all those gentle doves and brave lionesses, the mothers and grandmothers who keep our communities strong, I salute you on your day. Much health and joy to you and your families all year long!
Warmly,
Maria S. Gomez, President and CEO
MC News May 10th: Happy Mother’s Day!
Our Caring Nurses
In celebration of National Nurse Day (May 6th) and National Nurse Week (May 6-12th), we say thank you to our more than 20 nurses at our four locations and CCIN
for the wonderful work they do and the commitment they show every day. Ten of our nurses are pictured here congratulating Vivian Cativo, Nurse Manager at Ontario, on the CDC Childhood Immunization Champion award she received last week.
Our nurses are definitively the heart of our services. We honor them on their day!
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New Employee Recognition Program Take a minute to watch this video of Elizabeth MacLaughlin, Human Resources Generalist, introducing Mary’s Center’s exciting new employee recognition program, aimed at acknowledging the good work each and everyone of you does.
Know someone who deserves to be acknowledged? Click on the photo below for more details and send your nomination to [email protected] today!
To watch, click on the photo.
We are days away from being one of the first community centers in the area that has a mobile app! How cool is that?
Our Communications Department is working diligently with the app developers to have it available and ready for our participants, staff, board, volunteers and donors ready to install on iPhone and Android. More details to come.
Coming VERY SOON!
The partnership continues to grow stronger!
Briya, in partnership with Bridges Public Charter School, was recently awarded the building complex at the Mamie D Lee Center (100 Gallatin Street NE), near the Fort Totten Metro station, and Mary’s Center will partner with both charter schools to provide medical, dental, behavioral health and social services.
Bridges serves children in Pre-K through 5th grade and specializes in serving children with special needs, which means we will be able to focus more on this population. The new site is scheduled to be operational towards the end of 2016. David, Dara and Dr. Elliot couldn’t be happier with the
board’s approval to move forward with Briya’s “Mamie D Lee” project. Here they are holding the Mamie D. Lee ‘gift horse,’ given to Mary’s Center by Briya as a symbol of this exciting expansion to their partnership.
Christie McKay, Director of Education, and her team have been working on this project for months. Congratulations for making it happen.
Exciting Mary’s Center - Briya Expansion Project
Several community organizations in the area, including Mary's Center, organized a very successful community forum with Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Chicago on April 30th at Bell Multicultural High School. Thank you to those of you who joined us.
Mary's Center and Congressman Luis Gutierrez
Over 300 people came to hear the Congressman Gutierrez speaking about immigration reform and they left with a great sense of hope and renewed commitment to continue the fight for immigration reform to help millions of hard-working immigrant families.
Congressman Gutierrez spoke for more than one hour and answered questions from the audience, including one from Juan Miranda, the site director at our Georgia location.
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Noris Gonzales - Front Desk Receptionist II
Benjamin Siegelman - Coordinator, HIV Wellness and Navigator Program
Erik Gomez - Medical Assistant II
Victoria Carbajal - Dental Assistant
Miradis Sales - Dental Assistant
The DC-MD-VA Coalition in Support of Children Feeling Violence in Central America (which we are part of) recently released a report about the challenges facing unaccompanied children when they arrive in this country, and the work done by organizations like Mary’s Center and many others.
A big thank you to Maria Andreina Vethencourt and the Family Support Workers, the clinicians and all of you who are supporting these families for your amazing work. Here’s the link to the report.
Medical Assistants
of the Month
Congratulations to newlywed Chief
Nursing Officer Dara Koppelman. Dara and her husband, Eby Kalantar, met on a blind date set up by a mutual friend. That friend (center) completed her duties by officiating at the wedding as well!
The report included this beautiful photo of Dr. Jessica Schroeder (pediatrician and medical director of our Ontario location) with her children.
Report on Unaccompanied Children
Promotions
Left to right:
Shenell William: Georgia
Helen Penado: Adelphi
Elvia Sorto: Ontario
Sharing Personal Achievements
If you would like to share any major events or accomplishments, like sporting achievements, graduations, weddings, births, etc, please send your photo and a short paragraph about it to [email protected] or [email protected]
Prenatal Coordinator Laura Dri (left, sporting her Mary’s Center hat) and Fernanda Ruiz, Assessment Manager, proudly shared this photo from the Color in Motion 5K run at the Armory Stadium on May 2nd.
For Laura, it was her first 5K and one of her resolutions for this year. Fernanda has been running for a while.
Congratulations to both of them for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
May 2015
Welcome A warm welcome to our new family members.
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Happy Birthday - May
Left to right, standing:
Jorge Lander, Prevention at Home Care Partner, CCIN
Lymaris Viruet Guzman, Nutritionist
Melissa Salinas, Medical Assistant
Mariana Ruiz, Mental Health Family Support Worker
Doris Ayala, Dental Assistant/Intern
Cait Kirkpatrick, Family Support Worker
Johana Campos, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor
Jose Alfaro, Security and Administrative Support
Seating:
Marcia Truman, Peer Wellness Advocate
Joyce Krintz, Grant Accountant
Mary Zick, School Based Mental Health Therapist
Madelin DeJesus, CCLP Family Support Worker
17 years of service
Joan Yengo
9 years of service
Amima Mejia
Mireille Wotcho
7 years of service
Marie Fetter
4 years of service
Treon Baird
Marlene Gamboa
Sonia Grijalva
Tania Hindert
Iris Torres
Negede Mengesha
Mita Patel
Jessica Rosenberg
3 years of service
Dara Koppelman
Maria Ramos
2 years of service
Swathi Burgula
Emily Dreckshage
Maria Ellis
LaShawn Hawkins
Anesa Sheila Mirza
Selene Tituana
1 year of service
Edith Alvarez
Ayla Badell
Claudia Barahona
Paola Castro
Zulma Marroquin
Juana Moran
Eloisa Moreno
Cynthia Moya
Next Month, more great news… and don’t forget to follow us on Social Media
May 1 Alison Coleman (Family Assessment Worker)
May 1 Dara Koppelman (Chief Nursing Officer)
May 2 Enrique Renteria (Facilities Worker/Driver)
May 4 Thomas Gerkin (Briya Ass. & Admin. Coord.)
May 5 Elizabeth Bonilla (Medical Assistant II)
May 5 Richard Gesker (Chief Dental Officer)
May 5 Yolanda Mendoza (Briya Early Childhood Assistant)
May 5 Marisa Parella (MH/Child Adolescent Manager)
May 8 Dana Mueller (Internist)
May 9 Tsehay Gebretsadik (Medical Records Assistant)
May 10 Glenda Corado (Medical Assistant II)
May 11 Emelia Orhin (Controller)
May 12 Georgette Saad (Mental Health Therapist)
May 13 Cheryl Focht (Pediatrician)
May 15 Mita Patel (Population Health and Quality Outcomes)
May 15 Rosa E. Goyes (Health Promotion Manager)
May 15 Sulma Villalta (Front Desk Receptionist)
May 16 Carolina Carvajal (HR Manager)
May 17 Carlos Carcamo (Medical Assistant II)
May 17 Lester Manalo (Nurse Practitioner)
May 17 Yasmin Ventura (Post Release Services FSW)
May 17 Lynne Zaris (Senior Grants Writer)
May 18 Maria Iglesias-Gaspar (Mental Health Therapist)
May 18 Fernanda Ruiz (Home Visiting Assessment Manager)
May 19 Ana Rosas (Program Assistant)
May 20 Jessica Schroeder (Pediatrician/Medical Dir. Ontario)
May 21 Maribel Juarez-Escamilla (Briya- Early Childhood)
May 22 Silvia F. Llanos (Medical Assitant II)
May 24 Ramesh Herath (MIS Director)
May 26 Blanca Mejia (Facilities Worker)
May 27 Carla Cornejo (Dental Higienist)
May 29 Gloria Segovia-Nawn (Front Desk Receptionist)
May 30 Michelle Brown (Dental Hygenist)
May 30 Zulma Marroquin (Front Desk Receptionist)
May 31 Lyda Vanegas (Dir. Advocacy and Communications)
Please join us in congratulating the following staff members on their anniversary of working at Mary’s Center during the month of May. Thank you for all your years of service.
