GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC
Doing Likewise
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our mission is to demonstrate the love of Christ through the provision of health and dental services exclusively targeting the poor and uninsured. Our goals are to provide quality low-cost primary healthcare and dental services to the uninsured, decrease demand of the uninsured for non-emergent services at the emergency room, and provide matriculating healthcare professionals with experience serving disadvantaged populations. Achieving our goals helps to eliminate health disparities for poor and uninsured populations, reduces the cost of indigent care on the public health delivery system, and increases awareness among rising medical professionals of the unique needs and challenges of the poor and uninsured.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Primary Healthcare to Uninsured and Vulnerable Populations
Women’s Health
General Family Medicine
Pediatric Medicine (well and sick child) and Child Immunizations
School Screenings and Sports Physicals
Pharmacy Assistance Program
Health Education and Disease Management Classes
Individual, Marriage and Family Counseling
Social Work and Resource Referral
Dental Programs
Smiles Work: Provides payment assistance to those who cannot afford restorative dental services.
Helping Hands: Covers the expenses of temporarily staffing our dental clinic with contract dentists to serve alongside our staff dentist in order to meet patient's demand for affordable and accessible dental solutions by closing appointment gaps in our present waiting list.
Smiles for Life: Provides free routine oral hygiene services to children of low-income households, including oral hygiene education to encourage regular brushing and flossing.
New Smiles: Provides payment assistance for those who need but cannot afford dentures.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new clients within the past 12 months
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Primary Healthcare to Uninsured and Vulnerable Populations
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number provided is the New Patient count in year 2021.
Number of patient visits
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Ethnic and racial groups, Economically disadvantaged people, People with diseases and illnesses
Related Program
Primary Healthcare to Uninsured and Vulnerable Populations
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
We kept our doors open during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Number of physician visits that include nutrition and diet counseling
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Primary Healthcare to Uninsured and Vulnerable Populations
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This number represents counseling and health education visits completed in 2019.
Number of dental procedures performed
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Ethnic and racial groups, Social and economic status, Unemployed people, Age groups
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of prescriptions filled
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Ethnic and racial groups, Health, Social and economic status
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of vaccines administered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Primary Healthcare to Uninsured and Vulnerable Populations
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Includes COVID vaccinations.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our Goals are to 1) provide quality low cost primary healthcare services to the uninsured, 2) decrease the demand of the uninsured for non-emergent medical services on the local hospital emergency rooms, and 3) provide a venue for medical professionals and laymen of the Christian community to serve a marginalized population.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We are a Christian organization and our services are available to all patients regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or immigration status. The benefits of achieving our goals include helping to eliminate health disparities for poor and uninsured populations, helping to reduce the cost of indigent care on the public healthcare delivery system, and increasing awareness among medical professionals of the unique needs and challenges of the poor and uninsured.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are the only full-time reduced cost health clinic in Gwinnett County exclusively serving the uninsured.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Good Samaritan Health Centers of Gwinnett operates two full-service locations, each providing medical and dental services. The Centers are dual purposed; first and foremost we are a medical ministry, but secondly, we are a training site for students of the healthcare professions. Through our relationships with fifteen academic partners, we train physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner and pharmacy students, providing them with hands on experience working with culturally diverse, medically complex and uninsured patients. In a non-pandemic year, we serve 35,000 patients.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER OF GWINNETT INC
Board of directorsas of 05/11/2023
Ken Massaroni
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Transgender Identity
Sexual orientation
Disability
Equity strategies
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- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.