Yesterday, #NationalRuralHealthDay celebrated another year of work on rural health priorities all over the country! What a great way to acknowledge the work of so many people who are every day servicing our rural communities right from the heart!
Lynn Coachman, MHA and I celebrated at the South Carolina Office of Rural Health Conference! Amazing conference in which like Dr. Graham Adams, PhD, CEO of the SCRHA said, we enjoyed learning, meeting and connecting with servants’ hearts!?? Thank you for your leadership!
Diane Hall, Director of Office of Rural Health for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has a mission to lead the CDC’s rural public health strategy and coordinate across agency programs and with partners to improve the health and well-being of rural communities throughout the U.S! Thank you for your insights, your way to define health equity, your reminder that rural is not just geography, that public health is a team’s sport, the CDC’s “cookbook” of rural data, the strategic engagement and partnership, and how the rural reality is …we have work to do!
We at Mission Mobile Medical are ready to define rural health through the eyes of mobile healthcare! ????
At the same time I spent the afternoon virtually at the NC Department of Health and Human Services - North Carolina Office of Rural Health and the North Carolina Rural Health Association, celebrating a National Rural Day Homegrown Connections! Amazing presentations, listening to staple voices and the advice on how we must address urgency in the rural areas which fuels innovation!
Congratulations to everyone who won awards and gave a message of tenacity, drive and commitment to rural initiatives! William Massengill, LCSW, MBA, former CEO of Benson Health, a Rural Health Clinic, was recognized as a community star, a compassionate leader who has advocated for improving access to care in rural and underserved areas across North Carolina. And Dr Ralph Riley, the winner of the South Carolina Rural Health Pioneer Award, he closed the conference with an advice, which invited everyone involved in service, to continue to serve the vulnerable population to be most fulfilled, and like he said humbly, “as you service people, dance wherever you are!”
We at Mission Mobile Medical are your partners in this journey of rural health! ??
Ron Gimbel from Clemson University thank you for sharing your impact report!
Thank you to Justin Kearley, MPH for everything you do!
Monty Robertson, MHA from Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina and Priya S. from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSAgov), HHS keep your work for rural health!
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#HealthEquity #HomegrownConnections