Yearly Archives: 2019

Open Door has been awarded recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program at the following sites: Del Norte Community Health Center Eureka Community Health Center Ferndale Community Health Center Fortuna Community Health Center Humboldt Open Door Clinic McKinleyville Community Health Center NorthCountry Clinic [...]

A year after first opening its doors, the new Fortuna Community Health Center continues to make huge strides for those living in the Eel River Valley. The population of patients who call this state-of-the-art facility their medical home continues to grow—as does the staff of professionals who bring this health [...]

For Madonna Romaya, MD, the path to physicianhood has led from San Diego to the Caribbean island of Antigua and now to Humboldt County. But it all began in Baghdad. Romaya spent the first 12 years of her life in Iraq where positive experiences with family doctors shaped her answer [...]

Open Door Community Health Centers has received a $300,000 grant to support construction and operation of a new community health center in Arcata. The grant is from the Orvamae Emmerson Endowment Fund, a fund of the Humboldt Area Foundation (HAF). It will pay Open Door $60,000 each year from June [...]

As the third year of the Nurse Practitioner Residency Program comes to a close, a running joke among some of Open Door’s executives is they can say goodbye to the program’s perfect, 50 percent retention rate. The 2019 cohort of three nurse practitioners will—in one way or another—have to break [...]

In this series, we spotlight Open Door Staff who are involved in our community. Next: Alyssa Hicks, Manager of Health Professional Training and Development “I grew up in a small town in Arkansas called Gurdon—population of about 2,000 people. My family was low income; we didn’t really communicate about or [...]

Lynn Stacy and volunteers with the Arcata Food Project with the project's distinct mural covered van. Lynn Stacy (front row, second from right) with her colleagues from the Arcata Food Project. (Philip Santos-- The Times-Standard) In this series, we spotlight Open Door Staff who are involved in our community. First [...]

Few Fridays in recent history have garnered more anticipation among Open Door’s executives and excited more nerves than March 15, 2019. It was Match Day, the day each year when the nation’s medical school graduates learn where they will complete their residencies, and residency programs learn who they will be [...]