Erica Stokes joined Saint Joseph’s Health System five years after Mercy Care began to serve the poor and underserved in the community. She was working as a part-time payroll clerk while pursuing a degree in accounting. After graduating, Erica was invited to apply for an accounting position on a team that also handled the books…
One of the first high-risk populations to be identified in the current COVID-19 outbreak was the elderly, particularly those at senior care centers. Mercy Care Rome offers daytime health services to seniors with memory issues and other chronic conditions that need monitoring, while also acting as a social and resource center for these patients and…
Jim Kotaska holds up the vibrant, vintage fabrics of his youth — the very same fabric that his mother used to sew her maternity clothes, his father’s leisurewear, and his sisters’ blouses while growing up in North Dakota. Now some forty years later, the fabrics have found a new home. Carefully stitched together into six…
On Jan. 6, 2020, Dr. Jane Gerety, RSM, will fill the role of chief mission officer for Saint Joseph’s Health System and Mercy Care, reporting to CEO Tom Andrews. In March 2019, Sister Angela Ebberwein, RSM, retired as vice president of mission after 26 years of service and graciously continued to lead the mission activities…
Dr. James Stewart spent his first year at Mercy Care doing what optometrists do — examining eyes and looking for abnormalities — while also hoping to secure grant money to purchase an OCT machine. An optical coherent tomographer (OCT) works like a CAT scan for your eyes; showing frame by frame the microscopic ‘slices’ of…
Dermatology clinic and Street Medicine recognized in Milan, Italy and Dallas, Texas. The World Congress of Dermatology in Milan Mark Holzberg, M.D., Mercy Care volunteer physician and founder of Avail Dermatology in Newnan, Georgia, was honored with the International Award for Social Responsibility in Dermatology in North America and a €20,000 ($22,457.20) grant. When the…
In the spotlight. Debbie Stevens, nurse practitioner at Gateway, was recognized by IF Gathering at their women’s conference in February. Debbie was selected as an example of an excellent female professional who uses her faith in the workplace. A film crew followed her around for a day to capture the clinic at the Gateway Center…
When you know, you know. By age 5, Dr. Jeff Moore knew he wanted to be a dentist. In elementary school, he dressed up as one for career fairs, and in high school through college he volunteered at an office. His inspiration, he says, goes back to his childhood dentist. “Somehow my exposure to him,…
Service runs deep for Dr. Gabriel Onofre. For several years in the early 2000s, he sought to become a monk and dedicate his life to the Mission of Charity Brothers in California — working with Latinos in Los Angeles, and combining spirituality and social change through service. But he first came to Atlanta as a…
Street Medicine’s Joy Fernandez de Narayan obtains her Doctor of Nursing Practice. Joy Fernandez came to Mercy Care almost five and a half years ago as a Nurse Practitioner. Though she originally entered her BSN at Kennesaw State with the intention to serve in Latin America with missional medicine, using her Spanish fluency, she felt…
