4 • The Southwest Portland Post
THE COUNTRY STORE
By Erik Vidstrand
The Southwest Portland Post
Fanno Creek Clinic celebrates 20
years in Hillsdale
Medical director Gregg Coodley, M.D.
and office manager Kelly Henry at
Fanno Creek Clinic.
(Photo courtesy of Kelly Henry)
Fanno Creek Clinic, a primary care,
multi-specialty clinic is celebrating 20
years in Hillsdale this May and 50,000
patients.
The health care center was formed
by a group of physicians and nurses
who left Oregon Health & Science
University in April 1997 to form an
independent clinic. Long time clinic
staff noted that they were told that
they wouldn’t last six months.
Since then, contrary to their belief, the
BUSINESS
clinic has grown to include 12 primary
care physicians, two psychiatrists, and
three other mental health therapists. A
variety of specialists also practice
at the clinic including a podiatrist,
rheumatologist, a women’s health
nurse practitioner, and a colorectal
surgeon.
The health center offers on-site
x-ray, lab, ultrasound, and stress
testing.
With over sixty employees, all
who own a part of the business,
Fanno Creek Clinic is one of the
largest employers in the Hillsdale
and Multnomah area. Many clinic
employees have worked at the clinic
for over decade.
“Fanno Creek Clinic has long been
known for its innovations,” said
medical director, Gregg Coodley,
M.D. “We were the first Oregon
medical clinic to install solar power
in 2005.”
The clinic has developed a number of
programs to help the local community
over the years including giving grants
to local elementary schools and
helping businesses provide energy
saving light bulbs.
According to clinic staff, previous
grants went to pay for arts and science
programs at Rieke, Maplewood, and
Stevenson elementary schools as well
as science textbooks at Robert Gray
Middle School.
The clinic’s most innovative
program included teaming up with
Neighborhood House to pay for
health insurance for uninsured people
in exchange for volunteering at
Neighborhood House.
May 2017
Gurtons’s Plant Shop opens
in French Quarter
Gurton’s Plant Shop, a new
boutique featuring houseplants,
succulents, and cacti, will be
holding its grand opening on
First Friday (May 5) in the
French Quarter boutique mall
in Multnomah Village.
Owner Julina Abbott, a
mother of three boys, grew
up in Portland and attended
college in Seattle. She became
a pediatric oncology nurse
but recently moved back to
Portland to chase her dream job.
“This boutique has been
seven generations in the
making,” Abbott explained.
“My great-great-great-great
grandfather, Henry Gurton, Julina Abbott (left), owner of Gurton's Plant
Shop, holds her son, Justin. Abbott's mother
was the florist at Buckingham
Jackie Troutman is also helping out with the
Palace in the mid-1800s.”
family business. (Post photo by Erik Vidstrand)
Henry Gurton moved
to Canada in later years and his
Anne Bocci Boutique moves from
descendents made it to the United
Multnomah to Pearl District
States.
“This is a family business,” she
Anne Bocci Boutique, which had
explained as she held her three-
been in the heart of Multnomah
month-old son with one hand and a
Village since 2007, has emptied and
delicate air plant in the other.
moved to the Pearl District.
“Even Grandmother Gurton is
“Loved our ten years in Multnomah
helping out,” she said. “She’s been
Village,” owner Anne Bocci told The
busy arranging succulent gardens
Post. “We have gotten to know you,
and she will be at the opening.”
your family members and hear your
Gurton’s joins five other businesses
personal stories. Many of you are now
that have been operating in the New
our closest friends.”
Orleans-themed boutique mall.
According to Bocci, after 10 years,
Property owner Yves Le Meitour
the store had grown and needed
has been working with various city
a bigger, brighter space to better
bureaus to bring boutiques, food
celebrate the artists and designers.
carts, and a farm stand to where
“The new space,” Bocci said,
former Keith’s Auto Service once
“actually has heat, air conditioning,
operated.
and a bathroom which the Multnomah
“I’m excited to grow my family
Village store never had.
business in the neighborhood I grew
“Mention the Southwest Portland
up in and where I’m lucky enough to
Post in our new Pearl District store
raise my family,” Abbott said.
and get a discount,” Bocci said,
Located at 3530 SW Multnomah
“Thank you for 10 wonderful years!”
Blvd, Gurton’s Plant Shop will be
For more information, visit the
open Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m.
new store at 416 NW 12th Ave.
to 7 p.m.
or annebocciboutique.com.
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