Mercy Care’s Recuperative Care programs for men and women provide a safe, healing place for those experiencing homelessness to stay after discharge from hospitals. For the compromised patients currently sheltering in City of Refuge and Gateway Center dorms, COVID-19 poses a very real threat. As one male resident said to the group: “If anyone catches…
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…
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…
Half of the 28 years that Beatriz Leon York has been with Mercy Care was as a volunteer, and the other half has been as a full-time employee. In 1991, after her mother’s diagnosis with breast cancer, Beatriz Leon York saw a need at Saint Joseph’s Hospital, which led her to volunteer at Mercy Care.…
Women’s Recuperative Care opens at City of Refuge. Building upon one of our most effective programs for helping people out of homelessness, Mercy Care has opened a 14-bed, Recuperative Care program for women recovering from a hospital stay at the City of Refuge, located in one of historic West Atlanta’s most struggling neighborhoods. “We’re creating a supportive…
For Dora Llantop, service is about educating and empowering the patient. Formerly a dietician in Peru, Dora found a passion at Mercy Care in 1997 meeting one-on-one with Latina women to talk nutrition and holistic wellbeing. In her three years as a volunteer, this meant seeking patients out in salons, apartment complexes, and laundromats to…
