welcome letter
SPECIAL EVENTS
Serving the poor
Saint Peter’s Healthcare System’s Annual Golf Classic MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 9:00 AM REGISTRATION AND BRUNCH 11:00 AM SHOTGUN START 5:00 PM RECEPTION AND DINNER The Ridge at Back Brook, Ringoes, NJ Play a round at one of New Jersey’s top-rated golf courses to benefit Saint Peter’s Healthcare System. $750 per golfer. Sponsorships available. Call Saint Peter’s Foundation at 732-745-8542.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Diabetes Education TUESDAY, JULY 12 • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Sister Marie de Pazzi Conference Center @ Saint Peter’s University Hospital Sponsored by Saint Peter’s Thyroid and Diabetes Center. Light dinner served to registered participants. Call 732-745-8600, ext. 5795 to register or for details.
Taking Control of Epilepsy SATURDAY, JULY 23 • 8:30 AM REGISTRATION 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM PHYSICIAN PRESENTATIONS Sister Marie de Pazzi Conference Center @ Saint Peter’s University Hospital Call Beth Wiederspiel at 800-336-5843 for more information.
MyGOAL: My Gateway to Overcoming Autism in Life Support Group SUNDAY, JULY 24, AUGUST 28 AND SEPTEMBER 25 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Saint Peter’s University Hospital Join us for a discussion group for men who have families or have been affected by the journey of Autism. Monthly group sessions facilitated by Robert Kumapley, co-founder of MyGOAL, and Brian Cavill, fathers of children with Autism. For details, contact Robert Kumapley at 877-886-9462 or robert.kumapley@gmail.com.
PerhaPs no service of saint Peter’s healthcare System is more emblematic of our faith-based, Catholic Churchdriven mission than The Family Health Center in New Brunswick, also known to many as the How Lane clinic. Why? All of the services offered by The Family Health Center are provided without regard to one’s ability to pay—and very often its patrons cannot pay. That is because they quite typically are the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick—those folks without a regular paycheck from week to week or a stable roof over their heads, let alone health insurance of any kind. For those unfamiliar with The Family Health Center, it offers programs for both children and adults—services that run the gamut of what is ultramodern in today’s health care. For example, The Family Health Center houses services for adults in general internal medicine and clinics in the following subspecialties: endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, nephrology and rheumatology. The center serves adult outpatients from 18 years old through the senior years. This site serves about 8,000 patients annually. The professional staff includes attending physicians, resident physicians, advance-practice nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, registered dieticians and social workers. The support staff includes patient care technicians, registration representatives and billing representatives. Meanwhile, comprehensive primary and preventive health care is provided to children at The Pediatric Faculty Group at the Louis S. Damiano Pediatric Health Center, part of The Family Health Center. The center is staffed by an interdisciplinar y team of pediatricians and nurses, as well as social workers, nutritionists and professionals from numerous other disciplines. The Family Health Center is located at 123 How Lane. Key services include the Dorothy B. Hersh Regional Child Protection Center, a state-designated child protection center (CPC) that serves seven counties in central New Jersey. The CPC provides crisis intervention, child-abuse assessments and referrals to community resources. A multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, psychologists and clinical social workers works with children and their families to try to prevent future abuse. Any mention of The Family Health Center must also include the For KEEPS program (Kids Embraced and Empowered through Psychological Services), an acute partial-hospitalization shortterm-stay unit for children ages 5 through 17. What all of this means is that anyone—regardless of income, faith or personal beliefs—can depend upon The Family Health Center for their healthcare needs, be it an annual checkup by a physician or, if required, more complex treatment. Please read this edition of Middlesex Health & Life to learn more about The Family Health Center.
RONALD C. R AK , J.D. PRE S IDE N T A ND CHIE F E X E C U T IV E OFFICE R S A IN T PE T E R’S HE A LT H CA RE SYST E M
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