Who We Are
The Good Samaritan Center is more than a building and a mission...The Good Samaritan Center is all about people, our neighbors, all with a common desire to serve our community and work toward filling an unmet need quality, affordable health care, social services and spiritual fellowship to our neighbors who are unserved, or underserved, elsewhere in the medical system.
Staff
The core of the Good Samaritan Center is a small, dedicated, paid staff of medical and administrative professionals:
- Executive Director: John Willome
- Assistant to the Director: Linda Noe
- Director of Volunteers: Cheri Snyder
- Medical Director: Position Temporarily Vacant
- Clinical Director: Eryn Tatum, R. N.
- Staff Dentist: Nora McKinney, D.D.S.
- Dental Assistant: Jo Ann Ewan, R. N.
- Diabetes Educator: Kathy Lux, R. N., C. D. E.
Board of Directors
Our board of directors are all volunteers from the local community.
- President: Richard Eppright
- Vice-President: Jim Heupel
- Secretary: Katherine Peak
- Treasurer: Danny Richardson.
- J. H. "Dutch" Bouwman
- Evelyn Burns
- Rev. Michael Ensrude
- William Freeborn, M.D.
- Patsy Hejl
- Becky Miles
- Greg Oehler
- Hector Pedregon
- Anne Pluenneke, M.D
- Kristi Stafford, M.D.
- Gayle Williams, M.D.
Volunteers
Our volunteers make the Center possible. Over 90 volunteers from all walks of life serve the center. Our volunteers work at the front desk and in the medical clinic helping the nurse, in the medication room, etc. They also work on our landscaping, giving us what we consider to be the nicest doctor’s office in town.
The volunteer hours totaled over 7,000 in 2007, and according to the U.S. Department of Labor this represents over $125,000 of labor contributed. Without the contributions of these wonderful volunteers the work we do would simply not be possible.