Day 5

Today I woke up around 8 to head down to the Good Samaritan but when I looked at my phone I saw an email from Mrs. Dudley. She wrote that she was not working today and therefore did not need me to come to the Good Samaritan. After that I woke up and decided to do some research on the different Good Samaritan that around the city of Atlanta. The Good Samaritan that I worked at the passed week was the first of its kind in Atlanta and the other ones are just copies of it. However none of them are connected to the other ones. After doing some research I discovered that they all have and provide the same service but the way in which they do it is slightly different. The differences lie in how each of the offices are run differently. Even though they were all based off of the facility that I worked all of the Good Samaritan's are run slightly different. The original Good Samaritan was started by Dr. Warren because he felt that a calling and wanted to spread the word of the gospel. The Good Samaritan Cobb was started for a slightly different reason. It was started by Reverend Grant Cole and Dr. Jack Kennedy after collaborating these two men realized that medical and dental bills were creating a significant setback for uninsured family that were far under the poverty line. The Cobb distinction was started in 2006 and did not seem to emphasizing as strong of a faith based approach as the original Good Samaritan. The other location is in Gwinnett and was started when the community saw that part of their community was not being reached by the medical services that were being provided. Members from the local church came together to form a board of directors in January 2004. Unlike the original Good Samaritan which is based off of Luke 9:1-2, which reads, "drive out all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick." While the Gwinnett location mission is to teach what Jesus taught His disciples: demonstrate their faith by caring for the less fortunate, the sick, the naked, the hungry, the homeless, the imprisoned and the destitute. All of the three location provide the same basic medical and dental to care to patients who would otherwise not receive medical care.