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	<title>Medical Care Mission : Abilene, Texas</title>
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	<description>Low-income does not mean quality health and dental care must remain out of reach. The Presbyterian Medical Care Mission in Abilene, Texas, offers a solution.</description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Rosie</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosie was in so much pain that she could not hold back the tears.
She knew she had high blood pressure and knew it could make her feel this way, but she had no money for the medication she needed. When the pain escalated to the point she could not ignore it, Rosie walked one block [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Javier</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight months ago 21-year-old Javier found himself in the hospital with heart failure and no insurance. It was during that time that he learned he also has diabetes and was referred to the Mission for follow-up care.
“I really needed the help,” he said. “I can’t afford $95 for a bottle of insulin.”
Javier works just under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Rosa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosa moved to Abilene from Dallas six months ago to take care of her mother, who is disabled. Rosa had been struggling to manage her diabetes, so her sister-in-law suggested that she seek care at the Medical Care Mission.
“I don’t know where I would have gone otherwise,” she said. “I guess, the hospital.”
Five months later, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Edith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Edith moved back to Abilene two and a half months ago, she quickly found work performing custodial duties at a local school, but the end of the school year reintroduced her to unemployment.
“I have an interview today, this afternoon,” she said. “It’s for loading and unloading at a warehouse. If I get it, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Veronika</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veronika’s tooth pain takes her to her knees.
“My teeth make me real sick once every few months,” she said. “I just feel terrible. My stomach’s upset. My whole body is tired. I feel like I’ve been poisoned.”
She has been experiencing severe tooth and gum decay for many years and even received care at the Mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Janna</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janna left her home six weeks ago to enroll in the Salvation Army’s residential program for people who are battling alcoholism.
“When I heard about the Mission’s services,” she said. “I thought it was pretty neat; I had nowhere else to go.”
Janna has COPD, high blood pressure and depression and has not seen a medical doctor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Bonney</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Bonney made an appointment to see Ginger Fabrizio, PA-C, for a Pap test and breast exam, necessities that Bonney says she would forgo if not for the Mission.
“I couldn’t afford the well woman exam otherwise,” she said. “I live on a widow’s pension. I receive $874 a month, and that doesn’t go very far.”
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Jenny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a session with a caseworker at another agency, Jenny learned that she could receive primary medical care at the Mission.
“It took me three months to make an appointment,” she said. “That’s what this depression does to me. I put things off.”
Jenny, a single mother four — ages 18, 17, 10 and 2 — says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Jennifer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer had diabetes and no access to medication.
It had been two years since Jennifer had been diagnosed with diabetes, and when she came to the Medical Care Mission, she was out of resources and feeling lousy.
That’s when Ginger Fabrizio, PA-C, handed Jennifer a flyer about a program that the Mission offers for diabetic patients. Common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Profile: Tawnya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tawnya couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw her new physician.
“That’s my doctor!” she said as she was greeted by Dr. George Woodward, who had been Tawnya’s surgeon about 30 years before.
Tawnya had been living in Clovis, NM, for the past 20 years and had moved back to the Abilene to be closer to her [...]]]></description>
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