Selfless Among Us: Dr. Myron Glick, CEO Jericho Road Community Health Center

BUFFALO, N.Y. — At his main, Dr. Myron Glick is a family members physician. Dealing with his people is his passion.

“I am blessed for the reason that I am doing what I’m termed to do,” said Dr. Glick in an interview with WGRZ’s Melissa Holmes.

Glick was born in Lancaster, PA, and elevated in a missionary relatives in Belize. He came to Western New York to go to the College at Buffalo Healthcare School. 

In 1997, he founded the Jericho Road Relatives Observe at 184 Barton Road on Buffalo’s West Side with his spouse Joyce and just a handful of staff. The mission?

“Our principal get in touch with is addressing the overall health inequity, the health care access so that any particular person in Buffalo has access to superior healthcare,” he said. 

Glick launched Jericho Street Ministries, a 501c3 nonprofit in 2003. When that merged with Jericho Street Family members Apply in 2013, the Jericho Street Local community Well being Center, a federally certified health center, was established. Underneath the umbrella of the Jericho Street Community Health Center are five overall health treatment spots in Buffalo, dental care, a health club and pharmacy. Community plans consist of the Pricilla Project for new mothers, ParentChild+, economic instruction companies, the Vive Shelter for asylum seekers, and the Hope Refugee Drop-In Center. And Jericho Road’s team of more than 300 is as various as the clientele themselves, serving 56 languages, with in individual translators.

“People realize and identify with our crew here and that will make all the difference,” Glick reported. “I want to see the inadequate treated nicely by our health care program. I want Jericho Highway to be that light-weight that claims this is the way it can be completed, so that anybody irrespective of whether they talk English or not, any individual whether or not have insurance plan or not, any one whether they’re weak or rich or regardless of what no matter what your status is in this neighborhood that you have entry to superior good quality health care that treats you perfectly.”

Glick has also opened health and fitness centers in Nepal, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Jericho Street nurse Roseline Kabongo is from the DRC, and she’s built 3 visits back again to there with Glick.

“Heading back there and helping my people with him, I just will not know how to thank him,” stated Rosaline Kabongo, LPN. “He cares and he enjoys the people today. He doesn’t decide on. He provides most people his best.”

In 2020, Jericho Road served virtually 26,000 people with just about 88,000 visits. There had been more than 60,000 client visits at world web-sites.

Jessie Mossop is an staff of Jericho Road and also selected to have Glick, a father of 4 himself, deliver her daughter Mila 4 months in the past.

“It was my to start with time getting a baby so I didn’t know what to anticipate and he did a fantastic task educating me and then also listening to my desires and wishes,” Mossop mentioned. “The one particular thing I enjoy about Dr. Glick is his servant management. He’s usually prepared to roll up his sleeves. No position is at any time as well tiny for him. And just the good quality of care he presents to all of his people, no subject what they all get the exact stage of good quality of treatment.”

His service to all those in need to have in Buffalo and around the earth has generally been and always will be determined by his religion. 

“I have normally had the perception that if Jesus was below currently and he observed the way the health care method treated the weak, He would do what we do at Jericho Highway,” he explained. “I have this perception that the way I can honor God greatest is to acquire treatment of the folks that he cares about the most, which I believe is the most vulnerable and marginalized.”