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Quality Hotel Nova Domus, Rome
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- Age Group: 31 - 40
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Young Couple
.the staff was very helpful and fluent English
.large variety for breakfast - eat as much as you want
.impressive reception area, very clean rooms
.great value for money would definitely go back
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If the Vatican Museum is your destination, this is your hotel.from A TripAdvisor Member
All of Rome has pickpocket problems..don't blame hotel for this. Did not see any around hotel per se. Location is about 5 - 10 min from Vatican Museum entrance..a another 5 or 10 to St. Peters Square. There is an outdoor market between the hotel and the Vatican if enjoy markets. And if you walk the Vatican Wall around toward St. Peter's, keep your eye peeled across the street (before Otaviano) for the little ice cream shop with no seating and a metal rail out by the curb. Huge portions $1.50 for 3 scoops on a cone..and that is the small!
The neigborhood is primarily residential, so there are not a lot of restaurants...eat across the river at Spanga or Barberini before coming back to your neigborhood. Also the Borgo Pio near the Santa Ana gate of Vatican has food. Chinese Restaraunt across street is not wonderful, but adequate in bad weather. There are more Restraunts down on Julius Ceasar.
Staff is helpful..i liked them a Lot. Rapheal is very nice and works constantly. He is very professional and a great guy and will help you out a lot. Nadia in the contienental breakfast room is very sweet and helpful.
For me, biggest drawback was not having a wide variety of food close by. But, also sort of liked the fact that this area did not seem too touristy. If the Vatican Museum is your primary destination, this is the place for you! (and take your roller skates, the Museum goes on for MILES!!! :>)
Be on your guard for pickpocketsfrom CHASSIE
We visited the collesium, on ther first day and decided to visit spanish steps and trevi fountain the next day.
We travelled on the metro which was very busy indeed, the attractions were very crowded for this time of year. It wasnt until the next day that I discovered that my purse had been stolen, all our cash and credit cards, the victim it seems of pickpockets.
Unfortunately our hotel staff were not very helpful.
Be careful of pickpockets in Rome, apparently the metro is full of pickpockets just waiting for tourists.
You get what you pay forfrom AmericaninItaly
The breakfast and breakfast room staff was the only good thing about this hotel. The hotel is Not 5 minutes from the Vatican and is very deceiving from the location on the maps shown as it does fail to includes several streets inbetween, but it is near the metro. The staff did speak English which was helpful. My room was cozy but not well maintained; the shower ceiling was peeling paint and leaked making a puddle on the bathroom floor evertime the shower was used. We used the shuttle service that the hotel advertises, that took us to the designer outlets outside of Rome central, paid 65 euros (for 4 people) when we got there and the shuttle left us stranded and after 2 hours of waiting we ended up taking a cab back to the which costed us 55 more euros. The hotel refused to help us and is continuing to promote this service. I do not recommend this hotel at all, there are many others in Rome.
Very, very disappointedfrom A TripAdvisor Member
Nice for European 3 Starfrom apaula
A DREAM IN THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF ROMEfrom A TripAdvisor Member
I really do not agree with the further comments. In my opinion it is really superficial to give such a value to unimportant things like the colour of the carpet in the entrance hall.
My biggest compliments to the Nova Domus hotel!
I will come back!
What a hole!from A TripAdvisor Member
Clearly not a 4 Star hotelfrom ClarkGriswald
Wonderful place to stayfrom A TripAdvisor Member
NOT A FOUR STAR HOTEL AT ALLfrom A TripAdvisor Member
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Don't do it!! Don't use a taxi from the airport to the hotels in Rome or the Vatican, as we did this and found it a costly and dangerous affair. Our taxi driver was a rip off merchant, pointing out the window at things to distract us so he could push buttons to up the fare - ended up at €78, when it should've been around €35! We know this as we cottoned on, and he pressed a button as soon as we stopped and tried to bump it up another €10. Instead, get train from airport to city centre, which costs approx €12 and takes about 30mins. Service is regular, and then you have good metro connections for you onward journey. we did this on way back and it saved us money and aggro!
Summer nights Along the river by the Castle clubs set up during the summer. They start at around 12am but really get started at 1am. Drinks are quite pricey but the views are great. Coffee is cheaper when had at the bar, but either way, they're cheap compared to London. Vatican is free to enter on the last Sunday of the month (could be every Sunday - not sure though). Gloss Wine bar had free bar food when you buy a drink from 6.30pm and there are lovely little restaurants around Via del Monte della Farina.
Laundry Pack light. Italy has laundry mats that will wash, dry, and fold your clothes. We had one of these right down the street from where we stayed. Hotel laundry services can be very expensive when traveling.
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There's nothing worse than somebody wishing you a Merry Christmas when you're not feeling merry—or somebody saying Happy Hanukah, when you're not happy. Unfortunately, people with mental illness have it the worst around the holidays, because they're expected to be joyous like everybody else. I don't care how many times you tell somebody to watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, it's not going to prevent them from hurting themselves. Candy canes never worked on adjusting my mood swings, but the meds my psychiatrist prescribed were the best gifts I ever received. And for me, being balanced is something worth celebrating every day of the year.
Sure, I've had my share of horrible holiday experiences, such as feeling lost and alone in a room full of loved ones sipping eggnog, having my heart ripped out of my chest, getting smashed, and bottoming out somewhere, and running in the snow with an insanely rapid heart beat, tears freezing, wishing the pain in my brain would go away: "Dear Santa, I wish I wasn't bipolar. I wish I could just be happy." If only it was that easy.
For those who are suffering, don't give up, I had a really good time this year—at least mentally.
Have a Happy (or not happy) New Year!
Share your holiday experiences if you like. And if you don't, that's totally fine.
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Response by Daphne Tarango on 12/28/2011 8:48:30 AM
Great reminder, Bruce.
I can so totally relate to your sentence: "the meds my psychiatrist prescribed were the best gifts I ever received." So many years of feeling exactly the way you mentioned during the holidays. So much swinging from side to side--or staying on either end way longer than I ever cared to. I appreciate my friends--both the ones who knew about my bipolar and those who didn't. They loved me anyway and didn't try to cheer me up. They just let me be, and in the end, that helped to make the holidays even a little bit better.
Thankfully, for the past two years since medication, I have felt so much better.
Blessings to you!
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Franchising's remarkable growth and success over the past 30 years owes much to federal and state franchise laws and regulations--and the enlightened individuals who enforce them. Many folks forget that, by the late 1960s and '70s, the words franchise and fraud had almost become synonymous. What happened was simple: As franchising exploded onto the scene in the '50s and '60s, story after story appeared in newspapers and magazines about how franchisors and franchisees were growing wealthy in this burgeoning arena. That's when the criminal community, including organized crime, jumped in. Tens of thousands of people nationwide collectively lost hundreds of millions of dollars through criminal franchise enterprises--enterprises that, using slick brochures and outright fraud, sold phantom, nonexistent franchises to hapless victims.
Fifteen states and the federal government fought back, enacting franchise registration and disclosure laws and embarking on an aggressive law enforcement campaign to eradicate fraud in the franchise arena. And you know what? It worked. Due to the diligent enforcement of these laws by federal and state regulators--who, at the same time, grew more understanding of legitimate franchisors' needs and wants--there hasn't been a major franchise scandal in this country in decades. In fact, during his time as New York's attorney general, current governor Eliot Spitzer observed how relatively clean the franchise marketplace has been. "There has been a notable absence of scandal," he said. "When we look at the franchise market, we say, remarkably, [that] we have a great market that is healthy, growing [and] generating jobs, investment and confidence on the part of all involved."
So, yes, franchising has had quite a run over the past 30 years. It's seen meteoric growth, consolidation of both franchisors and franchisees, the maturation of relationships between them and the continually growing public demand for franchising's products and services. Now, rarely a day goes by that any of us does not encounter or frequent a franchise establishment.
And what does the future hold for franchising? Seemingly, continued unbridled growth, further dramatic expansion into foreign markets and sharply increased numbers of U.S.-based franchise networks. "The past is prologue," observes IFA president Matthew Shay. "In the three-year run-up to Entrepreneur's 30th anniversary, nearly 900 new concepts began franchising in the United States. Today, prospective franchisees have a wide range of franchise opportunities to select from in over 100 lines of business, offering business formats of all shapes and sizes." State franchise regulators concur, observing that in the past year alone they witnessed a 20 percent spike in initial franchise registration applications submitted to their offices.
Pretty good for an industry that started with a Kentucky colonel (Harland Sanders) charging his first franchisees a nickel-a-chicken royalty; a beverage Mixmaster salesman (Ray Kroc) who just had to know why the McDonald brothers were ordering more of his machines than anyone; and a beleaguered father of young children (Kemmons Wilson) who, after finding no family-friendly hotels to stay in while on vacation, started the Holiday Inn chain.David J. Kaufmann is senior partner of Kaufmann, Feiner, Yamin, Gildin & Robbins LLP in New York City, author of the New York Franchise Act, a member of the governing committee of the American Bar Association Franchise Forum and a franchise columnist for the New York Law Journal.
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H Foundation-Goombay BashFor the past decade, the H Foundation an all-volunteer group founded by businesspeople in and near west suburban LaGrange, Ill., has grossed more than $4 million, of which $3.5 million has provided seed money for the Lurie Cancer Center, which in turn has leveraged about $30 million in a wide variety of grants – all for basic research.
Proceeds from the H Foundation's wildly successful Goombay Bash—A Caribbean Festival to Find a Cure for Cancer—provide the majority of its philanthropic funds. "The Goombay Bash was a remarkable and stellar success!" Dr. Rosen went on to say in response to the 2011 event, "I have profound respect for all of the members of the H Foundation and for what they have accomplished on behalf of the Lurie Cancer Center, its patients, and their families. We are confident that with the Foundation's generous support, we will make important strides in the fight against cancer." In December 2011, board members presented Lurie Cancer Center Director, Steven Rosen, MD, with a check for $300,000.
In recognition of the extraordinary commitment of the H Foundation board, including members John Rot and Steve Palmer, the Lurie Cancer Center's annual basic science symposium is now named the "H Foundation Annual Basic Science Symposium." By furthering laboratory-based research, the Foundation has allowed physician-scientists at the Lurie Cancer Center to pursue unique ideas and collect the initial data that ultimately results in their ability to compete successfully for larger, external grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and other agencies. The cumulative accomplishments made possible by support from the H Foundation serve as a tremendous testament to the importance of private funding for basic science research at the Lurie Cancer Center. With these laboratory discoveries, researchers across Northwestern University strive to translate new findings into improved clinical treatments and cures for cancer patients everywhere.
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Energy gel is important for endurance athletes needing to fuel our bodies during long endurance activities.
The products provide rapid energy to our muscles and give us an energy boost to push even further. They aren't necessary during shorter durations of exercise, but are ideal for anything more than 45-60+ minutes, and could mean the difference between bonking and exercise success.
The increasing popularity of half marathons, cycling and an aging athlete base has ushered in a major nutrition supplement business. In addition to popular brands such as GU and Clif Bar, there are a handful of other reliable companies that have become popular. We'll take a quick look at different brands, their flavors, and what athletes can expect.
A prominent brand that you likely see in national retailers, local running stores and on the sponsor list of events is the Berkeley, Calif.-based GU company – it has a wide selection of effective products.
There are 11 different flavors of regular GU gel: Chocolate Outrage, Peanut Butter, Lemon Sublime, Tri-Berry, Jet Blackberry, Mandarin Orange, Mint Chocolate, Strawberry Banana, Espresso Love, Just Plain, and Vanilla Bean.
GU has expanded beyond traditional gels, creating a line of "Roctane" gels for especially strenuous – or longer duration – workouts and races. The Roctane line has a slightly altered formula to give athletes additional nutritional needs to help prolong working sessions. There are currently six flavors: Vanilla Orange, Blueberry Pomegranate, Pineapple, Cherry Lime, Chocolate Raspberry, and Island Nectars.
The traditional GU flavors are effective, but I've found Roctane gels to be ideal for 10+ mile runs. All GU gels are thick – and will probably be the thickest gel you consume, so be sure to drink some water when consuming them.
Clif Bar is the other big company you've probably seen or at least heard of. The company's energy bars can usually be found in your local grocery store. Now based in Emeryville, Calif., Clif prides itself on being a green company and creating effective and tasty products for everyone from regular customers to avid athletes.
Clif Bar currently offers these flavors of its Clif Shot Gel: Chocolate, Citrus, Mocha, Razz, Strawberry, and Vanilla.
An added bonus: The 'litter leash' helps you consume needed calories while keeping the wrapper in one single piece.
Proudly endorsed by the now disgraced Lance Armstrong, Honey Stinger is a Colorado-based company extremely popular among cyclists and mountain bike riders.
Honey Stinger keeps it simple with a small handful of flavors: Honey, Vanilla, Strawberry, Banana, Chocolate, Ginsting, Gold, Fruit Smoothie, and Acai Pomegranate. The Honey Stinger line is my favorite types of gel to eat, though they tend to be extremely sweet. The consistency is thicker than Clif but still not as thick as GU gels.
Hammer Nutrition has a decent variety of different flavors, including: Apple Cinnamon, Banana, Chocolate, Espresso, Montana Huckleberry, Orange, Raspberry, Tropical, and Vanilla.
The consistency is rather runny, but I can actually eat the gels without needing water to drink immediately after. I like Hammer gels, but it can be harder to find locally and you may need to place orders online – through the company's website, or through an online retailer.
Hammer also has a large product catalog and truly has everything for athletes and our nutritional needs. If you purchase directly from Hammer, frequent customers and a customer referral system help offer added incentive to make purchases.
The company I remember growing up with, PowerBar, has been in the fitness game for a long time. Moving beyond the old school, rather disgusting energy bars, and the company mixed energy gels into its product offering.
PowerBar has an often overlooked selection of energy gels: Raspberry Cream, Green Apple, Chocolate, Double Latte, Pomegranate Blueberry Acai, Kona Punch, Berry Blast, Orange Dream, Tangerine, Vanilla, and Strawberry Banana.
I like the consistency of the PowerBar gels and the unique flavors are a great change of pace from other similar products available.
PacificHealth Labs creates a wide variety of products, including the Accel Gel that is unique with a 4:1 carb to protein ratio. Accel Gel is available in the following flavorrs: Vanilla, Strawberry Kiwi, Raspberry Cream, Key Lime, Chocolate, and Citrus Orange.
I like other PacificHealth products, but have never been a huge fan of the Accel Gel, or most of the flavors available. The gel is the right consistency and easy to consume while running or riding a bike, and is readily available in most sports stores.
Vitalyte is a lesser known company in sports nutrition, offering a solid product lineup with a unique twist. Before I dive right in, here are the Vitalyte Chia Surge gels: Raspberry Chia and Orange Pinapple Chia.
The Vitalyte Chia Surge gels are unique – and I haven't tried anything similar to either flavor. Both have whole chia seeds mixed into the gel, and you're either going to love it or hate it. The flavor of the Raspberry flavor isn't overpowering and should be easy to consume, but the chia seeds definitely add something new.
Carb Boom includes the following flavors: Raspberry, Strawberry Kiwi, Vanilla Orange, Grape Pomegranate, Apple Cinnamon, and Banana Peach.
Carb Boom is popular among athletes seeking an energy gel that packs necessary caloric needs, and it is a runny gel. You should be able to easily eat a Carb Boom gel without drinking something, even though it's still advisable to gulp down some water.
Once you know which flavors you enjoy, you should be able to purchase the gel products through an online retailer for a discounted price.
Overall, the Honey Stinger Fruit Smoothie is my favorite flavor gel I have tried, though there are lots of different flavor and consistencies athletes can test.
You're going to need to experiment to find what you think tastes best and your stomach can keep down while exercising. Don't experiment on race day, and try to eat the same gel and supplements used during training.


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"Isn't that an off-brand religion?" One of my son's soon-to-be-relatives asked this question when he was introduced as having grown up in a Mennonite family.
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Mitt Romney nominated, joins wife on stage at GOP convention
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TAMPA, Fla. — Newly nominated Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is appearing for the first time at the Republican National Convention, striding on stage to hug and kiss his wife, Ann, after she delivered her speech.
Romney strode quickly across the large podium to stand at her side, prompting a roar and loud cheers from convention participants Tuesday night. He watched his wife's speech from the green room back stage in the convention hall.
After the speech, Romney and his wife moved to the box situated on the convention floor, where they joined family to watch New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie address the convention.
Earlier Tuesday, Republican governors worked to rally voters to Romney by arguing that he understands how to improve the country's business climate — and that President Barack Obama doesn't.
The governors speaking Tuesday at the Republican National Convention were long on blame for the economy's sluggishness but only spoke generally about the changes Republicans would make by emphasizing the need to cut government spending and red tape.
The governors selected to speak serve some of the most critical swing states in the coming presidential election, such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Some also signify efforts to connect with key voting blocs, such as Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and Brian Sandoval of Nevada, the state's first Hispanic governor.
The speeches came after Romney swept to the Republican presidential nomination.
The former Massachusetts governor watched on television with his wife, Ann, at a hotel suite across the street from the convention hall as delegates sealed his hard-won victories in the primaries and caucuses of last winter.
New Jersey put him over the top in a ritual roll call of the states.
Minutes later, Republicans nominated Paul Ryan for vice president, completing the GOP ticket.
Republican mockery of President Barack Obama began almost instantly from the podium at a convention postponed once and dogged still by Hurricane Isaac. The Democratic president has "never run a company. He hasn't even run a garage sale or seen the inside of a lemonade stand," declared Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican Party.
To send Romney and ticketmate Paul Ryan into the fall campaign, the convention quickly approved a conservative platform that calls for tax cuts — not government spending — to stimulate the economy at a time of sluggish growth and 8.3 percent unemployment.
Ann Romney's speech was scheduled as a prime-time highlight, an appearance meant to cast her multimillionaire-businessman-turned-politician husband in a soft and likable light before a national TV audience.
Aides said Romney would be in the hall when she spoke.
While there was no doubt about Romney's command over the convention, the residue of a heated campaign for the nomination was evident inside the hall.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who never won a primary or caucus, drew several dozen delegate votes. Earlier, his supporters chanted and booed after the convention adopted rules they opposed, but were powerless to block, to prevent those votes from being officially registered.
Opinion polls made the race a close one as the Republicans' days of pageantry and speechmaking began in earnest, and the man tapped to deliver the keynote address set the stakes.
"Conventions are always huge for a challenger, because they're the ones introducing themselves" to the voters, said New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Convention planners squeezed two days of speeches and other convention business into one after scrapping Monday's scheduled opener because of fears that Isaac would make a direct hit on the Florida Gulf Coast.
That threat fizzled, but it was instantly replaced by another — that Republicans would wind up holding a political celebration at the same time the storm turned its fury on New Orleans, devastated almost exactly seven years ago by Hurricane Katrina.
Romney's convention planners said they were in frequent contact with weather forecasters, but they declined to discuss what contingency plans, if any, they had to accelerate plans for him to deliver a formal acceptance speech Thursday night.
"This is obviously the biggest speech of my life," Mrs. Romney said as she visited the custom-made podium to prepare for her remarks.
Ratification of a party platform was prelude to Romney's nomination, a document more conservative on abortion than the candidate.
On economic matters, it backs extension of the tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 and due to expire at year's end, without exception. It also calls for an additional 20 percent reduction in income tax brackets that Romney favors.
In a time of 8.3 percent unemployment and the slowest economic recovery in the post-World War II era, that went to the crux of the campaign for the White House.
By contrast, Obama wants to allow existing tax cuts to expire on upper income taxpayers, and has criticized Romney's overall economic plans as a boon to millionaires that would raise taxes on the middle class.
The GOP platform also pledges that a Republican-controlled Congress will repeal, and Romney will sign, legislation to repeal the health care legislation Obama won from a Democratic-controlled Congress. So, too, for the measure passed to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse.
On abortion, the platform says, "The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed."
Romney opposes abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or when "the health and life of the mother" are at stake, he said in a convention week interview.
Obama, who accepts renomination at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., next week, campaigned in Iowa Tuesday as he set out on a tour of college campuses in battleground states in hopes of boosting voter registration among college students.
Before departing the White House, he made a point of appearing before reporters to announce the government's latest steps to help those in the way of Isaac. He signed a declaration of emergency for Mississippi and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local storm response efforts in the state.
His surrogates did their best to counter Romney and the Republicans.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, dismissing GOP attempts to woo Hispanic voters, said, "You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate." He added, "This is a party with a platform that calls for the self-deportation of 11 million people."
Hispanics strongly favor Obama, according to public polls, and Romney and his party have been seeking to win a bigger share of their votes by emphasizing proposals to fix the economy rather than ease their positions on immigration.
Female voters, too, prefer the president over his challenger, and Democrats have done their best to emphasize GOP opposition to abortion and even suggest the party might try and curtail access to contraceptives if it wins power.
Whatever the impact of those issues, the polls show the economy is overwhelmingly the dominant issue in the race, and on that, the voters narrowly say they trust Romney more.
In an AP-GfK poll taken Aug. 16-20, some 48 percent of registered voters said they trust Romney more on economic issues, to 44 percent for Obama.
However, a Washington Post-ABC News in the days immediately before the convention found that 61 percent of registered voters said Obama was more likable, and 27 percent said Romney.
The convention took place in an atmosphere of security that was both stringent and selective. Thousands of police from all over the country, joined by National Guard troops, Secret Service and others, stood in small groups at checkpoints, demanding those entering a secure area display proper credentials numerous times.
But former Michigan Gov. John Engler and an aide were hustled to the front of a long line waiting to clear security at one building.
Aside from Paul, Romney's long-ago rivals for the party nomination had bit roles at his convention, if that.
Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain posed for a photo after running into each other at the convention center. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were also in town, as well, both with speaking slots, unlike Bachmann and Cain.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Marillac Clinic, a community health care provider for the under- and uninsured, welcomed Kay Ramachandran, its new executive director, Jan. 7.
Before taking the job at Marillac, Ramachandran was CEO of Urban Peak in Denver, an organization that helps homeless youth and youth at risk of being homeless with essential services and skills for attaining self-sufficiency.
"Then I felt like I wanted to get back into community health," Ramachandran said. "Working for the uninsured and under-insured is a passion for me."
Ramachandran has worked in community health for more than 20 years, both in Canada and the United States.
In Canada, Ramachandran worked for a home health care organization, as well as a large for-profit health care company, where she said she learned her best lessons - "how to balance your nonprofit mission with a business bent of mind."
While in Boulder, Ramachandran additionally ran the People's Clinic for three years; it's a federally qualified health center that serves 10,000 patients yearly.
"It was a clinic in crisis and had to be turned around," Ramachandran said. "I was hired to do that. It was in financial crisis; there had been leadership turnover."
Not having access to health care is a social injustice, Ramachandran, 59, noted.
"That's what drives me to work in this environment, and why I was willing to relocate," she said. "I've been following Marillac for many years."
Kristy Schmidt, Marillac's director of community and donor development, stepped in as interim director after former Executive Director Steve Hurd retired in July 2012.
"It gave the agency continuity and time to find an executive director," Ramachandran said. "It does take time to find the right person with the right experience and right vision."
Marillac was founded in 1988 by a group of local health care professionals and community leaders who were concerned about the number of people in the Grand Valley who could not afford health care. Marillac's collaborative system - where medical, optical, dental and mental health care services are located under the same roof and providers refer to one another - has received national attention for its integrated model of care.
Marillac has its own team of health care providers, and it works collaboratively with a wide range of specialists in the community who provide discounted services. There are also physicians who volunteer at the clinic, 2333 N. Sixth St. in Grand Junction.
Plus, it offers heath care on a sliding-scale fee structure for both low- and middle-income patients. Marillac also operates a clinic in Palisade.
"One of the greatest attractions for me to come to Grand Junction - I heard such positive things how this community came together to take care of its own in regards to health care," Ramachandran said.
On Jan. 31, Marillac will offer free dental services for children as part of Give Kids A Smile Day. Youth 18 and younger, who are both low-income and uninsured, can make an appointment for cleanings, X-rays, exams, fluoride treatments and a treatment plan if more dental work needs to be done.
Ramachandran additionally said she looking to move the agency forward, in light of new health care reform.
"There will be more people covered under Obamacare (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). It's a great opportunity to match Marillac's mission with that," Ramachandran said.
"We have a lot of people uninsured in the valley now. We're not seeing all of them. Hopefully with health care reform we will see more of them.
"Marillac's whole philosophy is to provide health care for the poor."