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DUBUQUE COMMUNITY YMCA/YWCA VICTIM SERVICES SHELTER. In 2013 information suggested that an estimated three to four million women in the United States would be subjected to physical abuse by a partner, with one in every four women experiencing domestic violence in her lifetime. Domestic violence was the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States.
[[Image:medicalassociates.jpg|left|thumb|250px|The Medical Associates clinic at Main and 12th in the 1970s]]MEDICAL ASSOCIATES CLINIC PC (THE). Iowa's largest and oldest fully accredited multi-specialty clinic. Medical Associates was founded in 1924 by Drs. [[HELES, John B.|John B. HELES]], [[LYNN, Clarence|Clarence LYNN]], and [[JOHNSTON, Wayne A.|Wayne A. JOHNSTON]]. The site of the first clinic was a house at 1200 Main. This building was renovated and expanded to eventually house twenty-eight physicians.  


Originally called New Beginning Domestic Violence Shelter, the single shelter in Dubuque provided emergency safe shelter and confidential services for any abused women and all her children. The shelter educated the women with life skill training, goal setting and assistance with referral services. It was also a crisis intervention for any children who had witnessed domestic violence. The shelter was operated daily and all services were free. Victims could reside in the shelter for thirty days. The shelter was under 24-hour watch with its location kept secret. [[TERESA SHELTER]] and [[MARIA HOUSE]] offered temporary emergency shelter for homeless women and women and transition, but sent domestic violence cases to the shelter.
By 1974 a new clinic with 66,000 square feet of space was built at 1000 Langworthy next to St. Joseph's Unit of Mercy Health Center. The size of the staff was nearly doubled. This building was expanded in 1978 by 22,000 square feet.


During the summer of 2013, financial support for the shelter was drastically changed. The Iowa Attorney General restructured domestic violence services throughout Iowa. Costs of providing services support averaged $375 per client. In July, all domestic violence abuse state funding including federal crime funding, was removed from all but six domestic abuse shelter in the State of Iowa. Only the largest were allowed to continue receiving funding.
In 1978 Medical Associates Foundation was established to encourage health research, wellness, and health education activities.  


With the Dubuque shelter dependent upon state funding for nearly half of its budget, victims in Dubuque were faced with traveling to Waverly, Iowa.  
In 1989 Medical Associates employed 75 physicians and over 525 nurses and health care professionals. Through 1984 the clinic annually added from five to seven doctors and one new medical specialty. Satellite offices were opened throughout the tri-state region.  


Sister Charla Bulko, the head of the shelter, pleaded the need for the shelter to the board of the YMCA/YWCA. The board chose to be responsible for the operation of the shelter. Grants and fundraisers were planned.
The 1993 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed 1940 Elm, 1000 Langworthy, and Sports Medicine (Medical Associates at 2255 John F. Kennedy Road.
 
In early January 1997 Finley, [[MEDICAL ASSOCIATES CLINIC PC (THE)]], and the Tri-States Physicians Association submitted an application to the Iowa Department of Public Health to bring a permanent hospital-based magnetic resonance imaging center (MRI) to Dubuque. The application suggested that the center would be the fourth busiest in Iowa and would lower the cost of each MRI by 23%. Finley and [[MERCY MEDICAL CENTER]] were at the time using a mobile MRI on a part-time basis as a contracted service. The proposed Finley MRI was to be housed in an attached hospital addition and could provide MRI services 24-hours daily. The cost of purchasing the equipment, construction, and installation was estimated at $2.3 million. (1)
 
Medical Associates claimed many of the area's "firsts" in health care. The area's first [[HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION]] (HMO) was opened by the clinic in 1982. The first walk-in emergency room, Acute Care Facility, was added in 1983. The same year the Midwest's first low-dosage radiation mammography equipment, used in the detection of breast cancer, was purchased by the clinic.
 
In April 2011 Medical Associates introduced Patient Station, an online patient portal and personal health record. Using the program, a patient could link to all of their Medical Associates' physician and provider offices, request appointments and prescription refills, and communicate securely and directly with the physician and office staff through secure messaging. (2)
 
[[Image:medicalassocwc.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Medical Associates West Campus in 2010]]


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Brown, Ellen Gallogly. "Victim Shelter Survives: The Dubuque Community YMCA/YWCA Victim Services Shelter," Julien's Journal.
1. Gwiasda, Susan B. "Prognosis: Finley's MRI Busy, Fee Lower," Telegraph Herald, January 22, 1997, p. 1. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=aEyKTaVlRPYC&dat=19970122&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
 
2. Medical Associates Clinic: Embracing the Brave New World of Healthcare Information Exchange," Julien's Journal, May 2013, p 49
 
 
[[Category: Clinics]]

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The Medical Associates clinic at Main and 12th in the 1970s

MEDICAL ASSOCIATES CLINIC PC (THE). Iowa's largest and oldest fully accredited multi-specialty clinic. Medical Associates was founded in 1924 by Drs. John B. HELES, Clarence LYNN, and Wayne A. JOHNSTON. The site of the first clinic was a house at 1200 Main. This building was renovated and expanded to eventually house twenty-eight physicians.

By 1974 a new clinic with 66,000 square feet of space was built at 1000 Langworthy next to St. Joseph's Unit of Mercy Health Center. The size of the staff was nearly doubled. This building was expanded in 1978 by 22,000 square feet.

In 1978 Medical Associates Foundation was established to encourage health research, wellness, and health education activities.

In 1989 Medical Associates employed 75 physicians and over 525 nurses and health care professionals. Through 1984 the clinic annually added from five to seven doctors and one new medical specialty. Satellite offices were opened throughout the tri-state region.

The 1993 Dubuque City Directory listed 1940 Elm, 1000 Langworthy, and Sports Medicine (Medical Associates at 2255 John F. Kennedy Road.

In early January 1997 Finley, MEDICAL ASSOCIATES CLINIC PC (THE), and the Tri-States Physicians Association submitted an application to the Iowa Department of Public Health to bring a permanent hospital-based magnetic resonance imaging center (MRI) to Dubuque. The application suggested that the center would be the fourth busiest in Iowa and would lower the cost of each MRI by 23%. Finley and MERCY MEDICAL CENTER were at the time using a mobile MRI on a part-time basis as a contracted service. The proposed Finley MRI was to be housed in an attached hospital addition and could provide MRI services 24-hours daily. The cost of purchasing the equipment, construction, and installation was estimated at $2.3 million. (1)

Medical Associates claimed many of the area's "firsts" in health care. The area's first HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION (HMO) was opened by the clinic in 1982. The first walk-in emergency room, Acute Care Facility, was added in 1983. The same year the Midwest's first low-dosage radiation mammography equipment, used in the detection of breast cancer, was purchased by the clinic.

In April 2011 Medical Associates introduced Patient Station, an online patient portal and personal health record. Using the program, a patient could link to all of their Medical Associates' physician and provider offices, request appointments and prescription refills, and communicate securely and directly with the physician and office staff through secure messaging. (2)

Medical Associates West Campus in 2010

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1. Gwiasda, Susan B. "Prognosis: Finley's MRI Busy, Fee Lower," Telegraph Herald, January 22, 1997, p. 1. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=aEyKTaVlRPYC&dat=19970122&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

2. Medical Associates Clinic: Embracing the Brave New World of Healthcare Information Exchange," Julien's Journal, May 2013, p 49

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