{"id":1314904,"date":"2019-09-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/schalla-leaving-mountain-family-health-centers-development-director-post\/"},"modified":"2019-09-22T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T03:00:00","slug":"schalla-leaving-mountain-family-health-centers-development-director-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/schalla-leaving-mountain-family-health-centers-development-director-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Schalla leaving Mountain Family Health Centers development director post"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Garry Schalla<\/strong>
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Garry Schalla, the development director for Mountain Family Health Centers for the past three years who led a major effort to expand integrated health-care services in the region, has resigned.<\/p>\n

Schalla\u2019s resignation is effective Oct. 4, according to CEO Ross Brooks, who announced the move in a recent letter to MFHC staff, board members and community associates.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarry\u2019s commitment to our mission and vision were apparent from day one, and he has served as a tireless advocate for our organization, communities and patients,\u201d Brooks said of Schalla, who was the organization\u2019s first development director.<\/p>\n

Under Schalla\u2019s leadership, the nonprofit community health clinic network that serves Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin counties expanded to:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Develop a new integrated medical, dental and behavioral health-care clinic in Basalt to serve the upper Roaring Fork Valley;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Launch school-based health services and bring family planning services to Eagle County;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Develop mobile dental services in the Roaring Fork Valley;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bring integrated behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) services to the tri-county area; and,<\/p>\n

\u2022 Develop a professional branding and marketing campaign to grow MFHC\u2019s visibility.<\/p>\n

Mountain Family Health Centers now serve more than 21,000 people in the three counties, Brooks noted in the letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Mountain Family does for this community is so important, and it\u2019s such a valuable service,\u201d Schalla said. \u201cI just hope that the public understands what value this brings to people, whether they have insurance, are on Medicaid, or who don\u2019t have insurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cA holistic approach to provide integrative service is so important in this fragmented society. It\u2019s not only the wave of the future, it\u2019s a way that we can change how we value wellness in our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schalla said he is exploring options to remain in the Roaring Fork Valley, but is uncertain as to his next professional step at this point.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garry Schalla Garry Schalla, the development director for Mountain Family Health Centers for the past three years who led a major effort to expand integrated health-care services in the region, has resigned. Schalla\u2019s resignation is effective Oct. 4, according to CEO Ross Brooks, who announced the move in a recent letter to MFHC staff, board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1314904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:46:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}