“No confidence”: As UFM residents look to move program, patients flee a clinic adrift

by David Lamb The marriage that created the United Family Medicine (UFM) Residency Program in 1993, providing high-quality health care to a generation of Saint…
Neighbors Speak Out: United Family Medicine Clinic Leadership Severs Ties with Residency Program, Displacing 34 of 35 UFM Doctors

Less than a year into their roles, the CEO and board chair of the United Family Medicine (UFM) clinic have initiated action to sever the…
Fighting for our community

Hello West 7th Neighbors, I’m running for reelection and appreciate your support. Along with constituent services, I’ve worked on projects that improve our community.I was…
Council Perspectives: Building Our Budget

By Rebecca Noecker, City Councilmember, Ward 2 Every day, I receive dozens of constituent emails and phone calls on topics ranging from potholes to policing.…
West End Healthline: Beyond Counting Sheep

Why it’s important, how to sleep better by Emily Friedrichsen, MDAs we find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, our daily routines are significantly…
Keystone Spaghetti Dinner Postponed

Like many other events impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, so too is the annual Spaghetti Dinner normally held at the West 7th Community Center. We…
Editor’s Note

by Jerry RothsteinAdministrative DirectorThere is a storm brewing at one of the West End’s most important organizations, United Family Medicine, as revealed in the community…
Audacity Revisited

by Deborah PadgettGeorge Floyd’s killing, Elijah Cummings’ and John Lewis’s deaths have left me humbled, helpless and grief stricken. I cannot be silent because silence…
New Investment Challenges Hard Times

by Jerry RothsteinThe Bay Street Burger Dive, which opened in August at the former Bay Street Grill site, has become the latest in an 80-year…