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Harold Joyce,Robert Graham,
Carole Joyce Adam Driggs and Barry Wong
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Currently she is
Corresponding Secretary, Program Chairman, a Precinct Committeeman and State
Committeewoman for LD 24.
She was also a
PC in the early 80’s in the Pendergast Precinct where she hosted many parties,
meet & Greets for NRA at her home for some of the most popular Republican
candidates who were elected with her assistance.
She was recommended
by Councilman Claude Mattox for an appointment as a Commissioner for the City
of Phoenix Human Service’s Commission which she still serves on today.
She has been re-appointed twice by Mayor Greg Stanton and was recently selected
by invitation only, to attend the Annual White House Conference on Aging
that was held this past April. The White House Partnered with AARP. Her
interest besides politics is a passion advocating for seniors.
Carole is also a Life
Member of the NRA, She was appointed to the National Committee by
Former President Joe Foss serving 7 years on their National Committee.
Carole was also the
person behind Show casing the US Olympic Shooting time in the Sunkist Fiesta
Bowl Parade
She was featured in
many articles as an NRA Coach trained at the Olympic Center in Colorado
Springs, and has worked with NRA at a National and state level through ILA.
Carole has very impressive resume as a nurse:
Public Health Nurse
(Retired)
Nurse Consultant
Phoenix Fire Dept. (RETIRED)
Adjunct Faculty, ASU
College of Nursing
Commissioner, City of
Phoenix (Human Services)
National Presenter:
CDC, GSK, Sanofi Pastor Drug Companies
Carole Joyce is an
award winning Immunization Program Nurse/Vaccine Manager for the Mountain Park
Health Centers located in the greater Phoenix Az. area. Her Clinics have won
the prestigious Dr. Daniel T. Cloud Award 7 times, for Excellence in Vaccine
made available through the Geddes Foundation
The main clinic is
the largest Federally Qualified Community Healthcare Center in Arizona.
Mountain Park has been designated the official site for numerous CDC site
visits including a surprise visit many times from Betty Bumpers
of “Every Child by Two”, the Carter/Bumpers Campaign (Roselyn Carter).
Other notables visiting her program included Former Congressman John Shadegg,
Ed Pastor and Staff from Former Senator John Kyl’s office made visits to the
clinic because of their Federal Status.
Carole, is also
a frequent guest writer for their ECBT website. This program was showcased in
Arizona at Mountain Park and first launched on Dec. 7th 1999. The
goal was to demonstrate every Child by Two shall be vaccinated by age two with
a goal of 90% vaccinated per state, and the target date was April 2000.
Mountain
Park’s assessment was 92%the highest nationally Mountain Park was also the
test site for numerous projects including the State’s electronic reporting
system
ASIIS which Carole
help to pilot. She served as a nurse consultant for GlaxoSmithKline,
Aventis and Merck vaccines as a national speaker & consultant for vaccine
related programs.
Carole was also one
of ten nurses selected for the National Nurses Vaccine Council.
The Mountain Park
clinics all 5 of them have held the state’s highest assessment rate over 90%
for seven (7) consecutive years for children ages 12-23 months and 24-35 months
under the guidance and direction of Carole’s leadership.
The year 2005, Mountain
Park was one of the National recipients of the Excellence in Immunization
Awards Program through the National Partnership for Immunizations. (NPI
Award) Carole’s responsibilities were to deliver a violation free program,
stocking more than a million dollars’ worth of vaccines in one main
clinic! This was achieved for seven years and recognized numerous times by
the CDC. Vaccines are expensive, fragile biologicals that require
constant monitoring including all foreign travel vaccines and rabies series.
Carole has years of
experience administering vaccines to adults (Seniors), the workforce population
that included Public Safety officials, school teachers as well as private
employees getting their Influenza, Pneumonia and Tetanus vaccines.
She has written
extensively and presented nationally in this regard. She has contributed to articles chronicling
Mountain Parks infant immunization rates in the publication:
“Increasing
Influenza Immunization Rates in in Infants and Children: putting recommendations
into practice” a publication produced by the
National Foundation
for Infectious Disease. The presentation was given in Chicago at the
Annual Infectious Disease Roundtable Meeting.
This publication
showcased the clinics ability to track electronically High Risk Children with
Asthma and the benefits of receiving Influenza Vaccine.
Currently she is the
primary author, with Michael Clement, MD as co-author and photographer of a
publication in collaboration with coalition partners in vaccine and the Arizona
Dept. of Health Services, to produce a 16 page Illustrated Manual that provides
instruction regarding vaccine storage, management and administration.
This manual will provide an accompanying text offering a step-by-step
instruction related to cold chain, refrigerator organization, vaccine set-up, syringes,
needle tips, anatomical sites, patient positioning and sharps disposal.
In addition, illustrated guidance will be provided regarding record keeping,
logs and educational literature.
Upon publication,
this manual was distributed state-wide to all medical providers, private
practice, health departments, clinics school nurses and Fire
Depts. It is
also used as a training tool by coalition partners and was made
available nationally through ‘ECBT”.
TAPI (The Arizona
Partnership for Immunization) and their Director, the Hon. Debbie McCune-Davis,
and the Phoenix Fire Dept. worked hand in hand with Carole to make this manual
happen. Carole also worked as a nurse consultant in the Phoenix Fire Dept. Baby
Shots Program for thirteen years.
Her clinics
also became the training base for those administering vaccines. She served as
adjunct faculty ASU College of Nursing for many years training BSN, and Nurse
Practitioner students in vaccine management and administration.
In 2006 a delegation
of officials from the Ukraine visited Arizona at the invitation of the
Carter Center. It was hosted by Craig & Barbara Barret of Intel. Among
the group were businessmen, physicians and mayors. Again Mountain Park
was the CDC'S choice site of the Health portion of their visit. Many
visiting dignitaries were in attendance.
A proclamation
was also delivered by the Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon who also hosted these
guest for a week at city hall. Mountain Park provided them with
the resources to start a duplicate vaccine program in their clinics. Many
other visiting dignitaries have also visited the Clinic and utilized Carole's
expertise, from the Ministers of Health in Canada and Mexico. Senator Kyle’s
office would send their Health director quarterly to visit Mountain Park and
Congressman John Shadegg paid a visit to the clinic. In 2007, Carole retired
from Mountain Park to travel with her husband and enjoy life traveling Ireland
and other European countries.
