Missy Rodey
Missy Rodey
care effort local needs
Our health-care needs get worse. This is a local effort to take care of local problems.
apply community county federal fill gaps grants health large
We need to fill gaps - large gaps in health services. Demographics are such in La Plata County that we can't apply for federal grants for a community health center. We have too much income.
advantage expect fully health service
We fully expect to take advantage of the Health Service District.
center doctors forty medical mercy patients percent treated
Forty percent of emergency-room patients at Mercy Medical Center don't have a primary-care provider. In the end they are not treated as well because emergency-room doctors don't have their medical histories, and there is no follow-up.