Trinity Health Annual Report 2008

“Dr. Bolton and all of the physicians who serve our clinic provide wonderful and compassionate care to our
patients,” said Cindy Davis, RN, the nurse manager for St. Joseph Mercy Oakland’s free clinic. “The things they
do for this clinic and the many services we’re able to provide as a result are phenomenal.”
Mercy Place provides comprehensive primary care, ophthalmology services, prevention education and
well-being to uninsured people who do not qualify for Medicaid or any other payment alternative. The clinic
also provides services to the Hispanic community via its Clinica Santa Theresa program.
A Refuge for Children
“I would like for my children to get a good education
here in the United States, so they do not have to
suffer as much as we do,” a farm worker who
asked not to be identified said to photographer
Nanci Bellante. At the Holy Cross Center for Women
in Fresno, Calif., the farm worker’s children have
access to educational toys and computers. The
center provides meals, clothing and laundry
facilities for impoverished women and children
whose lives are challenged by language barriers,
racism and fear.
For more than 22 years, the Holy Cross Center
for Women has served as a refuge for poor and
homeless women and their children. Sponsored by
Saint Agnes Medical Center and the Sisters of the
Holy Cross, people in need have access to food,
shelter, educational and job training assistance,
and medical and dental services.
Idaho Residency Bolsters
Mental Health Services
The Boise area is getting a much-needed enhancement in mental
health services through a new psychiatry residency program
designed to attract and retain psychiatric health professionals in
Idaho, where mental health is a vastly underserved specialty.
In 2007, the first residents from the University of Washington
Medical School began seeing psychiatric patients at Saint
Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (SARMC), the Veteran’s
Administration and St. Luke’s hospitals in Boise and surrounding
rural areas.
Idaho does not have a medical school, therefore Saint Alphonsus
teamed with the University of Washington, which already partners
with Idaho hospitals in sending family practitioners to rural,
underserved areas.
SARMC’s Ted Epperly, MD, a family physician and president
of the American Academy of Family Physicians, developed
the program with the Saint Alphonsus Mission Committee. As
the program matures, more psychiatric health residents are
planning to complete their rotations in Idaho.
For Hispanic women, the Holy Cross Center for Women
offers their children hope for a better future.
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