Team Health Care Clinic’s 20th Anniversary: Reflections Back to Our Beginning

This month we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Health Care Clinic. Mostly it doesn’t seem possible that it has been that long. However, when I reflect on the many changes that have occurred with our staff and clinic, it only makes sense that it has been 20 years.

We started out as Bertsch Chiropractic in September of 1990.  We were located in the Champlin Plaza and had a staff of three: Dr. Joe, his wife Therese, who managed our office, and myself.  I remember thinking how great it was to be paid for doing something that was so fun. Our accounts receivable were done on a pegboard system and we had to process our x-ray films by hand-dipping. We were youthful looking 25 year olds who wore 3 piece suits every day. I even had a mustache.

In 1995, we purchased our Vax-D table. It cost more than the house I lived in. While that was a little scary, being one of the first clinics in the state to offer spinal decompression gave us statewide exposure. It also helped hundreds of people avoid surgery. By then, we were using an automatic processor for x-ray film and had begun using a computer for scheduling and daily accounting. We had approximately 8 staff.

In 1998 we greatly expanded our clinic services, changed our name to Team Health Care Clinic, and moved to our present location. We added a chiropractor who is a specialist in internal disorders, our brother Timothy Bertsch DC, DABCI. We also added a medical physician and physical therapists to our team of practitioners.

Currently, we are a very blessed clinic of over 25 staff. We no longer need to process x-ray films because they are digital. We are entirely paperless, as our scheduling, accounting, and patient records are computerized. Our faces are not so youthful looking anymore and our full heads of dark hair have thinned and grayed a bit. But, I continue to feel blessed every day to go to the clinic and be a part of a team so committed to helping fulfill our mission of assisting patients in restoring their health.

A patient recently heard about our anniversary and asked me about future plans.  Since we began 20 years ago it has been our desire to be the leaders in wellness treatment and education in our state.  God willing, another 20 years of such rewarding work has a nice ring to it!

Jay Bertsch, DC