Last Days

Today is my LAST day working at Mountainlands Family Health Center (previously Mountainlands Community Health Center). I am actually at work right now and I know I should be working but who actually works on their last day on the job? In fact, I am wearing jeans, which are usually reserved for Friday but I could care less :) I am employee of the century anyways so it doesn't matter. Mountainlands has been a really good place to work...I have been here for over two years and they have been good to me and treated me well. I love the mission here to serve and treat the underprivileged and uninsured. It will be hard to leave and I hate saying good-byes knowing I might not see a lot of my co-workers/friends ever again. Here is a picture of our old clinic, situated in downtown Provo:



"Welcome to Mountainlands" Poem
There is just something special about the ‘Lands
All here to serve, to dedicate and offer a helping hand
When the unfortunate sick need somewhere to go
Troubles they find when without the required peso
They come to us with medical attention yearning
All we ask is a slip or evidence of monthly earning
From there our patients and friends they will become
To aid them we strive and cure them of every symptom

Every single employee chips-in in some caring way
Making each patient feel special like on their birthday
At the front desk, oh we do have such a fine crew
Melinda, Ivonne and Tomas to name just a few
Speaking Spanish, English or any other language to try
Assisting patients all day, their courage to never deny
The medical assistants can be found guiding our friends to an exam room
Doing their job faithfully and diligently is a very safe conclusion to assume
Our Providers do their very best dealing with patient concerns
Dr. Grover, Dr. White plus more, even the likeable Dr. Richard
Oh the joy, for we can offer so much more for a hurting soul!
A psychologist we call Monroe…counseling is his grand goal
Who knew that this magical place also could include dentistry?
To clean all thirty-two teeth sparkling white and plaque-free
The diversity and special care of our patients we must meet
Especially those with a chronic illness or disease like diabetes
And our educating expert, Vanessa, teaches them oh so well
To lower their blood sugar, eat right and the ways to excel
Other deserving “Moutainland-ers” sadly are left off this small list
Like the billing ladies, always smiling and working, who can resist?
The record girls file faster than anyone else that we have ever seen
And must possess a sixth sense to find those lost charts with such ease

As a community health center, serving the needy is always in our mind
For this is why we are here, to care for those stuck in a truly desperate time
We may not be perfect, yet a full and charitable heart we seek to possess
Hoping to affect our small demographic amidst this troubling economic mess