Our first full month after the site visit our gross was up 47% over the same month last year. Blue Heron’s approach is to put the patient and client first, coach doctors and staff to practice good, thorough medicine all the time and profit will follow. Their biggest fear was that change would be driven by dollars alone. My partners were reluctant to bring in an outside consultant but after going through the site visit, they are on board with making the changes needed to grow and improve our practice. They have provided outside accountability that takes pressure off me as the managing partner. They listen, observe and evaluate before making recommendations that fit our practice. ![]() Tickets, $15 upper level or $20 lower level, at Heron Consulting has made practice fun again. The Silvertips will donate $5 for each ticket sold to the Providence General Foundation to provide free mammograms in Snohomish County. Saturday for Pink the Rink night at Everett’s Comcast Arena. The Everett Silvertips play the Seattle Thunderbirds at 7:05 p.m. ![]() “I’m feeling full of energy and pretty darn good.” When my next one in January comes out clear, I will graduate to yearly tests as opposed to the every-six-months regimen I have been on since 2011,” Tasky said. “I just had a clear diagnostic mammogram. Tasky launched a fundraising drive through Facebook, and said she hopes to donate about $1,800 to the Providence Comprehensive Breast Center. “My husband is saying, ‘Fathers, sons, brothers, tell the women in your life to go get those tests done.’ Early detection saves lives,” she said.Īt their cycle shop, the couple sell pink-ribbon breast cancer awareness stickers. Tasky said she and her husband may be featured in a short program on the big screen at Saturday’s game. He called me ‘Champ’ through my chemotherapy. Except for her surgeries and recoveries, Tasky said she didn’t miss a day of work. She lost her hair, and wore wigs donated to patients being treated at the Providence Regional Cancer Partnership. “If women are uninsured, they don’t have to go without treatments that save your life,” Tasky said. Russum said much of Tasky’s treatment was paid through a program administered by Citrine Health, which oversees state funds and helps enroll uninsured breast cancer patients in Medicaid coverage. She was relieved later to learn she does not have the BRCA gene mutation that would put her at higher risk for ovarian cancer. Tasky said she had no family history of breast cancer. After a biopsy, and with her husband at her side, “they gave me the diagnosis,” Tasky said. When the test turned out to be anything but routine, she went to the Providence Comprehensive Breast Center. ![]() Tasky looked into making payments to The Everett Clinic and went ahead with that first mammogram, which cost more than $300. “It was something I almost put off,” she said. Jamie Tasky said she didn’t have insurance that covered mammograms when her doctor, during a physical, suggested she get one at age 40. She and her husband, Jeff Tasky, own Tasky’s Metric Cycle on Hewitt Avenue in Everett. “Without the generous donations from Safeway and the Silvertips, life-saving resources would not be available to women like me.” ![]() “I look forward to Pink the Rink as a milestone of celebration with other survivors and family members,” Tasky said. Over the past four seasons, Pink the Rink has raised $225,000, which according to the Silvertips website “equates to 2,250 free mammograms for women in Snohomish County.”
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