Access Council

Upcoming Events:

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Connect people to healthcare services and healthcare services to people

  • Health and Wellness Education

  • Screening programs

  • Community Resource Book for Seniors

  • Surveys for providers

Empower community-based organizations to better attend to the basic healthcare needs of their constituents

  • Encourage development of Parish and Congregational Nurse Ministries

  • Train Lay Health Advisors

  • Foster an environment of trust and cooperation between established institutional providers and community-based organizations

Educate health service providers about health disparities and how their practice patterns impact the problems

  • Assist in educating providers about the North Carolina Best Care Project

  • Distribute information about new innovations in health care

  • Publish professional papers on health disparities

Engage community-based organizations on the process of improving the health of their constituencies

  • Promote participation in CACHE

  • Promote participation in Parish Nurse Certification Programs

  • Send communications to neighborhood groups and key gathering places

  • Provide a workshop on community capacity planning

Advocate for public policy changes that advance health equity and access

  • Monitor state and local legislation

  • Comment on proposed legislation

  • Encourage servant leadership projects in the community – high school, college, and graduate school students

Council

 

LaTonya Chavis, MS, Chair, Charlotte Reach 2010, Carolinas Health Care System

lchavis@cacheinc.org

 

Mr. Willie Garner (Co-Chair), Lincoln Heights Community

 

Lillian B. Herron, MSN, BSN, RN, CN Jenkins Memorial Presbyterian Church

lherron@cacheinc.org

 

Chaplain Harry Burns, Interfaith CareLinks
hlburns@novanthealth.org

 

Dr. Austin Faccone, Southern States Chiropractic
dohdc@bellsouth.net

 

Dr. Walter Gwin, Bishop, Spirit of the Word Ministries
Sotwc1@aol.com

 

Donna Lacey, PA, Project HealthShare
dlacey@projecthealthshare.com

 

Byron Grimmett, Mecklenburg County Medical Society, Physicians Reach Out

bgrimmett@cacheinc.org

 

Sandra Reid, MHA, MBA, Bradley Reid Case Management
sandra_brc@bellsouth.net

 

Carole Willins, RN, BSN (Secretary) Caregivers Institute, Inc.
caregiversinst@bellsouth.net

 

If you would like to be on one of our councils, please contact us.

 


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