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New CMAP clinic
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Dr. Kevin Brooks, orthopedic sur
geon with Southern Orthopedics and
Sports Medicine, received the Volun
teer Physician of the Year Award. Dr.
Brooks performed the first hip replace
ment for a CMAP patient?
Evelyn Tatum RN CDE, registered
muse and certified diabetes educator
with SGHS, received the Volunteer of
the Year Award.
CMAP is a family doctor for the
uninsured, providing compassionate
health services for thousands of people
in coastal Georgia who would otherwise
be without care.
CMAP was started to increase access
to health care in Camden, Glynn and
McIntosh comities. 24,000 people (20%
of population) have no health insur
ance; many work in industries that pay
low salaries and don’t offer insurance;
some seek primary care in hospital
emergency rooms
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and
other chronic diseases occur at higher
rates than other parts of Georgia
Acute conditions and chronic dis
eases go untreated and worsen; many
suffer and some must seek hospital
emergency treatment
Regular health care can help people
maintain a healthy life and job, prevent
hospital stays, and create a healthier,
more productive community
The two free clinics in Brunswick
and St. Marys provide primary and
specialty health care to adults 18-64
without health insurance.
From 2003-2007 CMAP provided
9,364 visits for 1,857 patients, plus
1,291 referred for free specialty care
and testing.
The new clinic building in Brunswick
includes five medical exam rooms, three
dental exam rooms, a vision screening
room, a prescription dispensary and
education and training rooms.
The St. Marys clinic plans to expand
into a new facility similar to the one in
Brunswick and will include additional
examination rooms, education/training
rooms, vision screening, and a dental
clinic.
The St. Marys clinic was the loca
tion for the pilot of Alive and Lively, a
chronic disease prevention and man
agement program, that began in 2007.
Alive and Lively teaches diabetes
patients how to follow treatment plans,
manage medications, implement life
style changes and acquire other ser
vices.
For those who cannot afford their
prescriptions CMAPs MedBank Pre
scription Assistance Membership Pro
gram serves 13 counties and works
with 102 pharmaceutical companies
and several drug discount programs to
provide free prescription medications to
low-income adults without prescription
coverage.
More than 22,800 prescriptions val
ued at $13 million were distributed
from 2002-2007.
Clinic care is provided by over 100
physicians, muses, pharmacists and
other health care professionals who
volunteer their services. They are sup
ported by a small staff of several muses
and a social worker.
Over the next four years, CMAP will
expand to reach many more uninsured
coastal Georgians and will develop new
income sources that will support free
care in the future. CMAP plans to treat
3,000 new clinic patients and provide
15,000 clinic visits. This will avert 2,500
hospitalizations and reduce uncompen
sated hospital emergency room use by
$1.7 million.
MedBank services will be expanded
to issue $17 million in free or reduced
cost prescription medicines in 13 coun
ties. The Alive and Lively program will
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be expanded into Glynn and McIntosh
counties and cover additional chronic
diseases, so that through education and
individualized support, people living
with chronic disease are able to live
healthy, productive lives.
To volunteer your time and talent or
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Shinnick soon met his first wife.
“When I got out of the Coast Guard,
there was a recession going on,” said
Shinnick, “But, even with the reces
sion, Florida was in a boom and needed
school teachers badly. So we moved
to Sarasota where I taught Language
Arts and then Remedial Reading for 11
years.”
During that time Shinnick and his
wife joined the Baha’i church in Sara
sota, which led to a year of teaching in
Africa.
“The Baha’i needed people to admin
ister correspondence courses for new
believers in East Africa,” said Shin
nick, “So, my wife and I and our two
kids went to Tanzania where I taught
English and math in a boarding school
for Greek and Cypriot children whose
parents were in the mining business
there. It was truly interesting because
I had to teach in Swahili, because they
didn’t speak English and I didn’t speak
Greek.”
At the end of the school year the
Shinnick’s came back to Sarasota after
battling local illnesses in Africa.
Back home, the Shinnick’s marriage
broke up and Joe went back to teaching
elementary school.
“It wasn’t long before they start
ed to experiment in the elementary
schools and began departmentalizing
into different classes and courses,” Joe
explained.
‘Well, finally I’d had enough and
decided to go back to the east coast of
Florida where I met Joan, who is also a
Baha’i, my wife of 34 years this coming
January,” said Shinnik.
Binned out on teaching and work
still difficult to find, Shinnick says it
was with the help of a reference librar
ian who was a friend who urged him to
go back to school.
“It was through a series of miracles
and lucky breaks,” said Shinnick, “but I
ended up at Florida State in an experi
mental program in Archival Manage
ment.”
After one semester that program
folded and Shinnick entered the Library
Science degree program thinking it
would give him a better shot at a job.
After graduation and after send
ing resumes to a number of academic
libraries, Shinnick was contacted by his
FSU dean who told Joe that there was
a job opening at the new Brunswick
public library.
When Shinnick arrived in 1976 he
was put in charge of the library’s video
studio.
Cable TV systems were just getting
started and the Federal Communica
tions Commission said they had to have
at least one local, community service
channel and the Brunswick library
filled that niche for a number years
until the private sector took over.
‘We got some federal assistance to
get the studio up and running,” said
Shinnick, ‘We shot a lot of talk shows
with local folks like Eugenia Price,
Joyce Blackburn and Doris Smith. We
had women’s shows, children’s shows
and covered local history. We had a por
table camera so we were able to get out
into the field. For example we filmed
the opening of the last fink of 1-95 being
opened in Glynn.”
Shinnick and his crew worked with
CNN and WSB in Atlanta on some
projects. They also did videos with the
Brunswick Golden Isles Chamber of
Commerce, King and Prince Seafood,
Hercules, the UGA Marine Extension
Service, the Federal Law Enforcement
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