Clinic Chronicle Monthly Newsletter

∙ July 2024 ∙

Midsummer is one of my favorite times of year, the nature around us is in full bloom, and we are gearing up for a busy season ahead.

As we move through the end of the year, we have lots on the list of things we want to accomplish:

• Extending clinics to increase access for patients in our community and making vaccine clinics readily accessible to our community.

• Increasing our impact with public health initiatives, such as increasing the medical supplies people need and how they are accessed.



• Starting strategic planning and incorporating our communities' voices in our work to ensure we put our patients at the center of all we do.

The team at GNHC has been busy finding new ways to do work, increase impact, and leave no stone unturned when caring for our patients and volunteers. Our patients, volunteers, and friends who support our work are our heroes - so much in our health system is a challenge to navigate. Our patients navigate significant challenges in many aspects of their lives, not just their care. Our volunteers help navigate the system, the challenges, and the best outcomes for our patients. Our friends, well, it would not be possible without you. To you each, we thank you because together, we make a real difference that would only be possible by working together toward a common goal.

Thank you for making our mission happen,

Elizabeth Austin, MHA

Executive Director

Staff Spotlight

Rebecca has been with GNHC for just over a year now and has been a significant part of how we share our happenings with you; from developing social media, increasing newsletters, and participating in bringing the best of GNHC to our community through events, she has made change happen and increased awareness of what we do here. Rebecca makes magic happen and deeply cares about Good Neighbor's mission and how we care for our patients.

This year, Rebecca will interact more with our media and friends of the organization, whether taking pictures and telling the story or assisting the ED in reaching our community better; Rebecca has been an integral part of the work done.

Thank you Rebecca, for all you do here at GNHC and in our community, we are grateful for you!

Volunteer Spotlight

Dr. Matthew Friedman

Matthew J. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D. is a, now retired, pharmacologist turned psychiatrist who established and served

for 24 years as Executive Director of the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for Posttraumatic Stress

Disorder (PTSD) from 1989 to 2014. Dr. Friedman has been a volunteer at GNHC and has made a significant difference in the way our patients access care.

Stepping down in 2014 to become a Senior Advisor to the Center and to establish and direct the National PTSD Brain Bank from 2014 to 2022. In addition, he was Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He has 50 years of

experience as a clinician, teacher, and researcher with approximately 360 publications, including 29 books.

Thank you, Dr. Friedman, for all of your work and time!

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