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Terry Reilly Health Services

“I think also a really important ignored,” the website states.
aspect is sharing this information Terry Reilly partnered with local
with friends,” Barkell said. pediatrician Dr. Clarence McIntyre,
Next year is Terry Reilly’s 50th who began volunteering his
anniversary, and Barkell promises services at the Gente House. The
there are many fun things coming clinic opened May 1, 1971.
up to celebrate. A good way to fol- “Terry Reilly’s tireless work to
low along with what’s going on is raise awareness of the need for
through Facebook and Instagram. access to quality health care in
Terry Reilly was one of the first rural Idaho” led to grants that
community health centers and supported the creation of clinics
social services locations, growing to all over Ada, Canyon and Owyhee
respond to needs of a small group counties. Clinics were then named
of children and their families in the Terry Reilly Health Services, in
Many of the staff had to adapt patient navigators who reached Seasonal Farmworker population honor of Terry Reilly. “Today, the
and respond based on the need out to patients, starting with those of Nampa, the clinic states on its mission of Terry Reilly remains the
of the community, so some over age 65, asking if they needed website. same: operating medical, dental,
took on duties outside their job help, such as with bills, and helping Terry Reilly was sent to Nampa and behavioral health clinics for
descriptions. Terry Reilly’s dental them access services. by the Roman Catholic Diocese everyone throughout the Treasure
operations were only for open When it came to the clinic’s of Boise. He was to help provide Valley.”
emergencies, so a lot of the dental COVID-19 needs, “We had so many services to the farmworker Many of Terry Reilly’s licensed
staff were outside staffing the amazing organizations through- community. Terry Reilly began doctors practice under one roof,
clinic’s tents, which were temping out the valley, the country, [who] to research and address some of which means a patient’s dentist
people and screening people. donated,” Barkell said. “We’re so the needs of the community, the can talk with their doctor about
“Our staff was amazing through thankful for the community part- website states, and Gente House possible underlying conditions, and
all of it,” Barkell said. “It was kind of ners that stepped up through it.” quickly became a neighborhood the doctor can screen for possible
‘You gotta do what you gotta do.’” In addition to sharing informa- center for children, now providing mental illnesses like depression.
And, Terry Reilly wanted to tion about ways community mem- a tutoring program which Terry “They’re working holistically for
make sure it was not just helping bers can donate to and support Reilly created. the patient,” Barkell said. “That’s
the community medically, it also Terry Reilly, Barkell also shared that “He began to notice that many something different about Terry
wanted to make sure mental one of Terry Reilly’s core values is of these children who came for Reilly that I appreciate.”
health was taken care of through accessibility, “making sure people tutoring seemed to have chronic Photos provided by Idaho Press Archives
supportive services. Terry Reilly had know we are a resource.” conditions that were being