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 10.01.06
- PMC Turns Five. On October 1st, 2006, Parks Medical
Corporation turned five years young. The company has seen great
growth over these past five years and looks forward to many
more.
09.18.06 - PMC exhibiting at the 2006 Fall GI Conference in
Missoula. Look for the Parks Medical
Team again at this years 2006 Fall Gastroenterology Conference being held
in Missoula Montana at the Hilton Garden Inn on October 28,
2006. We will be staffing a booth at this conference
representing Fujinon. Dave will also be presenting during
the conference on Double Balloon Endoscopy technology as well as
Using APC in Endoscopy. We hope to see you there!
06.27.06 - PMC at the Fall PNWSGNA Annual Meeting. Look for the whole Parks Medical
Team again at this years PNWSGNA Fall Conference being held
at the Monarch Hotel and Conference Center in Clackamas,
Oregon, October 14,
2006. We will be manning four booths this year representing
Fujinon, Erbe, InnerSpace and Verimetrix. We hope to see you there!
For more information on this meeting, please visit the PNWSGNA website at
www.pnwsgna.org.
06.12.06 - PMC announces the addition of a new sales
representative for
Western Washington and Western
Oregon - Gavin Doree
Gavin joins the Parks Medical team
after spending the last five years teaching junior high and high
school students in the Spokane area. Gavin earned his B.A. from
the University of Washington, and a M.A. from Whitworth College.
Gavin is excited for the potential to service existing clients
and build strong business relationships with new clients. Gavin
is a Spokane, Washington native and currently resides in Spokane
with his wife Katie and their two Labrador retrievers, Mac and
Maggie.
03.14.06 - PMC's
Service Team Wants to Take Care of You!
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(Left to right: Annie
Emery, PMC Service Liaison;
Darryl Boom, Fujinon Field Service
Engineer;
Nick Kazandjian, Fujinon Repair
Technician; Dan Craven; PMC Repair Technician; Chris Burge,
PMC Repair Manager/Technician; Stacey
Blount, Office Manager; and David Parks, President)
All of us within the Parks Medical
Repair Department want to let you know that we want
to be you local
Northwest repair facility for all your Fujinon and Olympus
endoscope repairs.
Call us at 509-448-9112 or
877-827-2757 extension 2 to learn more.
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Spokane firm to equip Belize
medical clinic in honor of late Catholic Charities
director (Reproduced
from the Feb. 2, 2006 edition of the
Inland Register)
Dave Parks (center),
President of Parks Medical Corporation, will deliver a
plaque, commemorating Donna Hanson’s years of service,
to Corazon, Belize. Pictured with Dave are Loreen
McFaul, Development Director, Catholic Charities Spokane
and Rob McCann, Executive Director, Catholic Charities,
Spokane. (IR photo from Catholic Charities)
When a medical clinic opens
in Corazal, Belize, next month, Parks Medical
Corporation will be donating a video system, endoscopes
– “everything they need,” according to owner Dave Parks
– inspired and influenced by the late Donna Hanson,
Bishop’s Secretary for Social Ministries and director of
Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Spokane.
Parks said that Hanson was
“a delightful, thoughtful person, very interested in
other people, and also a very effective organizer. She’s
someone who has done so much for so many.”
The main focus of Parks
Medical Corporation is gastroenterology — the
visualization of the internal organs of the body. They
sell flexible scopes for viewing and treating various
areas that would be hard to see or reach without them.
“Our focus is on positive patient outcomes,” Parks said.
The company serves over 42 hospitals and clinics in the
Pacific Northwest.
There can be little doubt
that Hanson would appreciate what is being done in her
name. The Belize clinic will feature a plaque with
Hanson’s picture and story on it. But the clinic will
bear her name, since she was, in Parks’s opinion, “the
Mother Teresa of Eastern Washington.
“The people down there are
very excited about this,” he said. “We’re glad that
Donna’s presence will be with us in Belize.”
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09.08.05 - PMC at the Fall PNWSGNA Annual Meeting. Look for the whole Parks Medical
Team again at this years PNWSGNA Fall Conference being held
at the Embassy Suites in Lynnwood, Washington, October 15,
2005. We will be manning three booths this year representing
Fujinon, Erbe and InnerSpace. We hope to see you there!
For more information on this meeting, please visit the PNWSGNA website at
www.pnwsgna.org.
07.18.05 - And now we are five. Stacey Stephens and Dan Craven
join the Parks Medical Team.
Little ole PMC is growing and we now have five full-time
employees. Stacey S. (yes, we have two Stacey's now) comes
to the PMC team with a background in sales and will be taking
over the Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana territories...
Dan comes to the PMC team under an apprenticeship to learn the
ropes in scope repair and help alleviate the load on our repair
manager, Chris. Dan is also our local expert when it comes
to the field of IT...
 06.27.05 - PMC Supports the Boise SGNA.
Parks Medical Corporation participated
as a vendor
at the “Spirit of
Endoscopy” Regional SGNA meeting co-hosted by the
Mountain West and Pacific Northwest SGNA Chapters. This meeting
was held in Boise, Idaho, on June 24th and June 25th, 2005. The
two-day event was designed for all doctors, nurses and
associates of gastroenterology. The speakers addressed many
different subjects, such as, hands-on ERCP, comforting the
stomach during a colonoscopy, the Gastroenterologists role in
obesity surgeries, and interventional bronchoscopies.
The meeting was attended by 80 doctors, nurses, and medical
professionals from all over the West, including, Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Utah. The PMC booth was
well received and was attended by David Parks, President of
Parks Medical and the Northwest Fujinon distributor, Stacey
Blount, office manager for Parks Medical, and Fujinon’s West
Coast Field Service Engineer, Darryl Boom. The booth showcased
a Fujinon 2200 system with a gastroscope and colonoscope using a
National Display 19” Radiance flat screen monitor, an ERBE
ICC-200 electrosurgical unit, as well as accessories such as the
Cygnus caterpillar cleaning brushes, scope bumpers and Simple2
Enzymatic Detergent. For all visitors to the Fujinon booth,
Parks Medical offered goodies such as notepads and pens as well
as healthy Fuji apples and a chance to win one of eleven Fujinon
binoculars that were raffled off during the lunch hour.
 02.04.05
- PMC Announces the Opening of Their New Repair Department.
Parks Medical is pleased to announce that we are
now a certified and authorized repair center for Fujinon
endoscopes. Our Repair Department is now open for the Pacific
Northwest; serving Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana!
PMC’s Repair Department has the capability to
repair Fujinon and Olympus flexible endoscopes used in the
endoscopy department and the OR. We recognize we are in the
service business and our trained staff will do their best to
meet your needs.
Our overall service philosophy is simple; treat
our customers as we expect to be treated. We will provide
service you can count on, with flexibility to meet your needs.
We will find solutions that will keep you up and running. Our
goal is to provide a high quality repair with competent
communication. When your endoscope is sent to PMC, you will
have access to a loaner if needed and will have communication
directly with your repair technician. Visit our Repair
Department online by clicking here.
PMC's
Repair Department Offers:
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local northwest repair service
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competent and knowledgeable
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quick turnaround
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extensive loaner inventory |
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repair of all Fujinon models
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repair of light sources, processors and printers
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full 90-day warranty
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certified and authorized Fujinon repair facility |
10.02.04 - PMC Attends the PNWSGNA.
Once again PMC attended the PNWSGNA
Annual Fall Conference on Saturday, October 2nd. This year
is was held in Olympia Washington. Attendance was great
with over 150 GI nurses from all over Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
Oregon, and Washington attending. All of the PMC Team
(Dave, Pat, David Z, Darryl and Stacey) were in attendance to
help introduce Fujinon and InnerSpace to the
conference attendees.
  It
is our mission to help educate nurses and physicians and to do
this every year PMC raffles off five $200 educational SGNA
scholarships. This years recipients were Mickey Holman,
Julie Stewart, Cindy Dody, Loren Bagswell and Judy Oakes.
Congratulations to each of you.
We look forward to next
years conference being held in beautiful Boise Idaho. For
more information, please visit the PNWSGNA website at
www.pnwsgna.org.
 09.20.04
- PMC Moves Again. PMC has once again taken up a new
home. We didn't move very far, just downstairs, but
it did change our street address completely as well as our
zip code. Our new address is: 107 South Cedar Street,
Spokane, WA 99204. Again all of our phone numbers have
remained the same. Feel free to drop by if your in the
neighborhood. We now feature a "Surgical Suite Showroom"
to exhibit the many fine manufacture lines that we carry.
09.01.04 -
PMC at the PNWSGNA. Look for the whole Parks Medical
Team at this years PNWSGNA Fall Conference being held this year
at the Red Lion Hotel Olympia in Olympia, Washington, October 2,
2004. We will be manning two booths this year representing
Fujinon and InnerSpace. We hope to see you there!
05.12.04 - PMC at DDW.
Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is
the largest international gathering of physicians,
 researchers
and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology,
endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery and PMC was there. Over
40% of all attendees are members of one (or more) of the four
sponsoring societies; the American Association for the Study of
Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Gastroenterological
Association (AGA), the American Society for Gastrointestinal
Surgery (ASGE), and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary
Tract (SSAT). DDW takes place every May in cities
throughout the US. This year the meeting is being held in New
Orleans from May 15th to the 20th. Attendance averages
14,000 people, just over half of whom travel from outside the
US. Physicians from the UK, Germany, Japan and France make up
nearly 40% of all international attendees. The meeting showcases
approximately 5,000 abstracts and hundreds of lectures on the
latest advances in GI research, medicine and technology.
03.22.04 - PMC Moves.
Parks Medical Corporation moved into it's new headquarters
today, running at 100%. The space has turned out wonderful
and we enjoy the new atmosphere very much. We plan to have
a open house in April or May and hope that many of our customers
and contacts will be able to join us. Our new address is:
1325 West First Ave. Suite 206, Spokane, WA 99201. All of
our phone numbers have stayed the same. If your in the
neighborhood stop by and say "Hi"! We would love to show
you around.
 03.01.04
- PMC Announces Move. Parks Medical Corporation is
moving its headquarters to a beautiful new space
located in the heart of downtown Spokane, in the historic
Eldridge Building.
Built in 1925
as an automobile sales and service center, the Eldridge Building is now
the office and retail hub of Carnegie Square, located at the
intersection of First Avenue and Cedar Street.
We are very
excited about our new location and anticipate moving in by April
1st. Watch for more updates.
03.01.01 - National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
March 2004 begins the fifth annual nationwide effort to educate
the public that colorectal cancer is
preventable, treatable and
beatable! This year's campaign will focus on
reaching out to special populations and increasing outreach to
primary care providers. A bracelet that reminds an individual to
get screened for colorectal cancer will serve as the main
outreach activity for the month. The bracelet initiative will
be called the
Buddy Bracelet --
Wear it, Share it, Because You Care!
03.01.04 -
New Symbol of
Hope for Colon Cancer Cure!
 Today,
the blue star symbol will be introduced across the country,
symbolizing our united effort in the battle to prevent
colorectal cancer deaths. The symbol will be featured
everywhere, from window displays in New York’s Rockefeller
Center, to displays on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, and at events
in Washington, DC, Atlanta, Montreal, Minneapolis, Los Angeles,
and hundreds of other locations throughout North America. I am
so pleased there is finally a symbol for colorectal cancer, the
nation's second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths for men
and women. This disease affects hundreds of thousands of people
each year, and this symbol is a sign of our common commitment to
prevention, treatment and finding a cure. The blue star
symbolizes that by working together, we will prevent many from
ever developing colorectal cancer and create highly effective
treatments. Thank you for your continued support of the NCCRT!
02.13.04 - New PMC Website Goes
Live. We are please to announce that the new website for
Parks Medical Corporation is up and running. It is still
under construction with content being added every day, so check
back often for news about the products we carry and specials we
may be running.
01.10.04 - New Employee
Joins the PMC Team.
I am pleased to announce the hiring of Stacey Blount to the
position of Office Manager to our company. Stacey comes to our
company with an exceptional background and knowledge in marketing
and business organization. In her previous position as
Communications Coordinator at the Spokane County Medical Society (SCMS),
Stacey produced numerous marketing materials and guided the staff
with her extensive knowledge in computer programs. She coordinated
physician education seminars, meetings, and conventions and her
work was recognized and appreciated by the physicians she came in
contact with.
Prior to working for SCMS, Stacey was employed by AT&T Broadband
and learned a great amount about computer networking and technical
aspects of internet and broadband technology. In addition, Stacey
excelled as the top student in an intensive one year Computer
school where she achieved several mastery certificates in
Microsoft Office programs.
Perhaps even more impressive than Stacey's technical skills, is
her "can do" positive, enthusiasm to achieve the very best for her
co-workers and customers. Like all of us, Stacey will go the extra
mile for her customers to get the job done quickly, effectively
and professionally.
On behalf of PMC, Welcome Stacey to our team. We are excited to
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