Welcome to the DMC Foundation
Wine Country Evening
DMC Foundation and The Modesto Kiwanis Club are planning a very exciting event: A Wine Country Evening at the Gallo Center. This lovely event will be held on October 7, 2010. Guests will taste wines from over a dozen wineries and breweries. There will also be an abundance of hors d' oevres prepared by Grgich Family Catering, silent auction, raffle and door prize. Proceeds from the Wine Country Evening will benefit DMC Foundation's programs to promote health through education and The Modesto Kiwanis local children's charities. Profits will be split 50-50. Special events and event sponsorships are crucial, allowing us to offset some of the costs associated with this event and funnel more operating dollars into important programs and deserving children's charities. Annually, DMC Foundation serves upwards of 70,000 residents in this community through health services and education. The Kiwanis Club is a global organization made up of volunteers who donate to a variety of children's aid programs such as Habitat for Humanity, Women's Haven and educational programs for children in schools.
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Announcing the Healthcare Scholarship Winners!
The DMC Foundation has awarded twenty scholarships totaling almost $20,000 to local students pursuing a career in the medical field. The recipients range from high school seniors preparing to graduate and enter college to students going back to school after a twenty-five year hiatus!
We are pleased to announce the following recipients. Four of whom are not pictured.
Here are our winners:
- Korinne Baxter
- Jacob Priester
- Elizabeth Cortez-Toledo
- Sara Richards
- Linda Holmes
- Micah Florece Domingo
- Adriana Woodward
- Heidi Harvey
- Nancy Rivera
- Dawn Garcia
- Kylee Reeser
- Akashdeep Sandhu
- Jillian Ramos
- Sydney Chartrand
- Ian Peltier
- Oksana Petrechko
- Elena Gonzalez
- Elizabeth Tejeda
- Melissa Ramage-Stephens
- Ronit Lyon
About DMC Foundation
DMC Foundation was formed in 1975 as a not for profit organization. It began as an extension of Doctors Medical Center, a sustainable means to provide health education programs throughout the Modesto area. In our 35 years we have evolved and now serve well over 50,000 residents within Stanislaus County as well as the outlying areas. However, our focus remains the same. We exist to "promote health through education." DMC Foundation believes that the best way to maintain good health from generation to generation is to educate people.Our programs are essential to the community because they work to teach people how to take care of themselves and others.
More about our Programs
We have Diabetes Health Services to teach those struggling with diabetes how to monitor the disease and maintain the best health possible. Our program director goes out to local schools to prescreen students and inform them about the disease including the best methods of prevention.
We also offer CPR & First Aid classes. These classes are mandatory for educators and child care workers as well as those in the medical field or training for a medical career. Our program provides a two-year certification. Childbirth and Family Education is another area we offer expertise in. There is also a KidWatch class for young teens. This course equips participants for babysitting and deals with discipline issues as well as teaching first aid basics and CPR.
Kids Works is our puppet-based program. Our puppeteers have a lot of fun sharing health and safety tips with school-aged children at assemblies all over the county. The life-sized puppets present important messages to over 35,000 students each year. Our Fresh Outdoors project also works to keep kids safe and healthy by creating non-smoking public areas to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke. This program is funded by the California Department of Public Health. MoMobile, our mobile outreach clinic, provides medical care to those who live in remote or under served areas of the county where transportation and access to health care prevents many children from seeing a doctor.
We also maintain several programs specifically for seniors. One of these programs is our Lifeline personal response system. This locally monitored service provides peace of mind for elderly living alone. We sponsor Club Fit, the mall walking program, which provides a warm and safe environment for walkers inside Vintage Faire Mall. Another program at the core of our existence is Miller's Place, our Alzheimer's Day Care & Adult Day Health Care resource centers. Miller's Place makes it possible for care givers to work during the day while their mentally fragile loved ones are well taken care of, not neglected at home or left at a convalescent home.
Alzheimer's is an often overlooked disease that plagues millions. Statistics show that roughly five million Americans have been diagnosed with the disease, known to be the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. One in seven people will be affected by Alzheimer's. Someone new is diagnosed every seventy seconds. We are proud to be the only licensed facility in Central California. Although the state has cut some of our funding causing us to open the thrift store, Memory Lane, we have managed to keep our doors open and will do what ever is necessary to continue our programs, seeing their importance to the community.
We thank you for your continued support!
Volunteer Information
Would you like to volunteer? Please use this Volunteer Application. Or for more information please contact us at (209) 527-3412
