LONGSTREET r s v e a r y n i n a LONGSTREETCLINIC n Your Health. Our Specialty. i o c t e l e b r a Winter 2020 - Community Edition FROM THE DESK OF... leader across all healthcare fields – one advances quicker than individual recognized in northeast Georgia and providers ever could. far beyond our region. All of these goals and ideals, Since then Longstreet Clinic has combined with strong leadership and grown to include approximately 200 commitment, caught our attention providers across 18 specialties in 11 more than two decades ago, and it cities – combining to cover the full is why we are proud to represent spectrum of healthcare needs of an Longstreet Clinic as physician leaders ever-evolving and growing group of who continue practicing today. communities. Holmes Marchman, M.D. But we are nowhere near finished. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Among our achievements and firsts In fact, Longstreet continues to in northeast Georgia was recruiting innovate and expand in order to our area’s first neonatologist and best serve the needs of you, the working with Northeast Georgia patient. This is reflected in the recent Medical Center to establish a NICU implementation of EPIC and addition in Gainesville. Since then we’ve of new specialties like endocrinology, added additional specialties such as and innovative technology such perinatology, oncology, neurosurgery, as Automated Breast Ultrasound bariatrics, vascuar surgery, orthopedics (ABUS) and 3D mammography. and more. In addition, we were early We also continue to win awards and adopters of electronic health record acknowledgements, like “Best of Hall” (EHR) technology in 2001, and have reader’s choice and a silver medal been recognized for our innovation in for website design (in a competition Eugene Cindea, M.D. that area through the years. against providers worldwide). Pediatrics Through all of the growth, one In the end, it is all comes down to you, Twenty-five years ago, a dedicated thing has remained the same: Our our patients, and our dedicated team group of doctors, advanced practice commitment to the patient. And we of employees and providers. Thank continue to show that by providing you for a successful first 25 providers, nurses, administrators BEAT and support staff came together in not only leading-edge healthcare years; we look forward to serving Gainesville with the goal of providing services but doing so with a dedication you in the decades to come. the pinnacle in innovative, patient- to service and personal attention that centered care for the residents of has helped set us apart from the beginning. northeast Georgia. INSIDE The foundations of Longstreet Clinic By joining forces 25 years ago, the providers at Longstreet Clinic gave began with the merger of three Mary’s Story / 2 groups (Northeast Georgia OB/GYN, themselves an improved method Gainesville OB/GYN and Northeast of staying at the forefront of “Best of Hall” Winners / 2 Georgia Pediatric Group) in addition developments in medicine. Spreading Meet Our New Physicians / 3 the costs of new technologies across to eight single specialty practices. Our Christine’s Story / 4 founders blazed a visionary trail that more providers allowed – then as has turned our Clinic into a trusted now – Longstreet Clinic to undertake Need a provider? Visit our website at longstreetclinic.com/providers, or call 770-718-1122. WINDER WOMAN WALKING AGAIN AFTER 11 YEARS For 11 long years, Mary Maddox suffered life had gone up in smoke,” said Maddox, indignities and frustrations few can truly who knew that circulatory and heart understand – or would ever want to. problems ran in her family. “I was just at work one day, and I couldn’t That knowledge proved enlightening for Dr. clock out, literally. I could not move to do it. Moomey, who determined that Mary’s ills My legs just would not do what I asked them were, in fact, all circulatory related. to do,” said Maddox, who was in her 40s at the time. “I met Mary for the first time and was immediately struck by the fact that she was The frightening experience touched off a only 50-something years old and had not frenzied series of physician exams – none of walked for 11 years,” said Dr. Moomey, which provided Maddox with a clear answer who ordered a CT scan that identified as to why her body betrayed her. Years spent that Maddox was suffering from an aortic searching for answers left her with just one occlusion. “Yes, she had other medical 11 years. certainty: Maddox could move about only problems, but there’s no way she should be with the aid of a motorized wheelchair. confined to a motorized wheelchair. I kind “I love Dr. Moomey to death; he gave me part of feel like she was overlooked by modern of my life back,” Maddox said. That all changed when the now 56-year-old medicine, and I felt compelled to help her.” Maddox met Longstreet Clinic Vascular & Dr. Moomey, too, drew immense satisfaction Vein surgeon Charles B. Moomey, M.D. Dr. Moomey and his staff performed from Mary’s progress. endovascular therapy at Longstreet Clinic’s “I had been to a back doctor, a hip doctor, all Gwinnett County offices in Lawrenceville, “We come to work to do these things, but kinds of doctors. All they could tell me was including an angioplasty and the placement Mary will always be special for me, and it’s that my body forgot what to do. Over the of six aortic stints. It was a procedure that, in really gratifying to see her get better and be years I had just about given up, and my whole 2019, allowed Mary to take her first steps in freed from her prison,” Dr. Moomey said. Visit longstreetclinic.com/mary to read & watch Mary’s entire story. Contact Dr. Moomey and Longstreet Clinic Vascular & Vein at 678-207-4000 LONGSTREET PRACTICES VOTED ‘BEST OF HALL’ We are honored to once again be acknowledged by our patients and our community through The Times’ annual “Best of Hall Reader’s Choice” awards. For 2020 we have been voted best in: • Imaging • Pediatrics • Immediate/Urgent Care • Weight Loss Clinic • Neurosurgery • Women’s Health • Orthopedic Surgery Thank you to everyone who not only voted, but who trusts us with their medical care. We are honored to have the opportunity to continue serving our community each day! 2 // PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO HELP HALL EAT WELL Longstreet Clinic is partnering with United literacy from birth by having a pediatrician Way and the Vision 2030 Health Consortium offer a language- and age-appropriate book to distribute almost 4,000 free cookbooks during every child’s well visit from age 6 designed to empower residents throughout months to 5 years in its Hall County northeast Georgia. pediatric offices. Titled “Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4 Since beginning the program in 2017, a Day,” this New York Times bestseller will Longstreet’s pediatricians have provided boost the budget and tickle the taste buds, over 20,000 books to families, along with a as author Leanne Brown reveals secrets to “We are proud to offer valuable resources to “prescription” to parents and guardians that mouth-watering, affordable and healthy our patients, as well as residents throughout they read aloud with their infants, toddlers meals. the community, in any way we can,” and preschoolers every day. This is especially Longstreet Clinic CEO Mimi Collins said. important when you consider that, according Longstreet Clinic will distribute the books – to studies, 95 percent of a child’s brain is donated to the United Way by Brown and This distribution is part of Longstreet’s formed before the school-age years. Workman Publishing – directly to Longstreet partnership with the Reach Out and Read patients and employees as well as provide program, funded by United Way of Hall To that end, each cookbook will include a several thousand to community partners such County, in which Longstreet doctors present bookmark reminding parents and guardians as Good News Clinics, Georgia Mountain books to families – all with the stated goal of that, “the best super foods for the mind is a Food Bank, The Hub at Gainesville City/Hall increasing childhood literacy. Reach Out and book. Take 15 minutes a day to read to a child County Schools and Lanier Tech. Read encourages the importance of early and help them learn and grow.” MEET OUR NEWEST PHYSICIANS EVGENIA “JENYA” KORYTNAYA, MD BRETT C. BAUDIN, MD DEANNA DEL MAZO, MD Endocrinology Radiology Internal Medicine / Medical Weight Loss Medical Degree Medical Degree Medical Degree Novosibirsk State Medical Academy, Russia University of Florida College of Medicine Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta Residency Residency Residency Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Diagnostic Radiology, Emory University Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Center, Philadelphia, PA College of Medicine Miami School of Medicine, Miami Fellowship Fellowship Certification Endocrinology, University of Michigan, Neuroradiology, Emory University College American Board of Internal Medicine Ann Arbor, MI of Medicine About Certification Certification Dr. Del Mazo joined Longstreet Clinic in American Board of Internal Medicine - American Board of Radiology - Diagnostic February 2020 with more than 12 years’ Internal Medicine; Endocrinology, Diabetes Radiology & Neuroradiology experience as a practicing physician. She is & Metabolism About an internist with Longstreet Clinic Internal About Dr. Baudin joined Longstreet Clinic in Medicine in Braselton and has special Dr. Korytnaya joined Longstreet Clinic in January 2020 after more than 22 years as interest in medically-supervised weight loss. December 2019 with nearly 10 years of a practicing radiologist in Georgia. He Call 678-207-4050 for appointments. experience. Her interests include in general reads imaging studies from our offices in endocrinology as well as the treatment of Gainesville.