Beckett Named NRHA’ s Rural Health Practitioner of the Year
The National Rural Health Association( NRHA) has announced its 2017 Rural Health Award recipients, and among this year’ s honorees is Donovan Beckett, D. O., of Williamson, WV.
Beckett returned to his hometown of Williamson in 2003 to serve his community after graduating from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. He opened a family practice there and joined efforts to reinvigorate the community through his clinic. Many of his patients had little or no insurance, so he started hosting a free clinic one day a month— then several days a week. This led to his decision to transition to a nonprofit, federally qualified health center. The Williamson Health and Wellness Center, located in a renovated building downtown, is the parent organization of the Mingo County Diabetes Coalition and Williamson Farmer’ s Market. Beckett and his staff prescribe healthy eating with vegetable prescriptions filled on-site and follow-ups with diabetes educators and community health workers in the same location to improve coordinated care and health outcomes.
The winners, including Beckett, were honored during NRHA’ s 40th Annual Rural Health Care Conference in San Diego, CA.
Shepherd Receives Grant to Continue Diabetes Education Program
A program that helps diabetic patients at Shenandoah Community Health Center in Martinsburg will continue another year now that Shepherd University has received a $ 422,135 interprofessional collaborative practice grant from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources & Services Administration.
This is a renewal of a three-year grant, titled CHOICES Program: Changing Health Outcomes for Patients with Diabetes through an Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Environment at Shenandoah Valley Medical System, that allows students from several departments at Shepherd and the West Virginia University( WVU) School of Medicine Eastern Division to collaborate with health care professionals at Shenandoah Community Health Center to provide care for diabetic patients.
Dr. Laura Clayton, professor of nursing education and administrator of the grant, says there are about 150 patients from Shenandoah in the program. Ten nursing students and up to eight students from other departments at Shepherd and the WVU medical school work with the patients to help assess their needs, run support groups and hold educational and counseling sessions.
Bailey Named West Virginia Defense Attorney of the Year
Charles Bailey, managing member of Bailey & Wyant, PLLC, has been named 2017 Defense Attorney of the Year by the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia( DTCWV).
“ I am humbled by this award,” says Bailey.“ To receive recognition by my peers, colleagues and friends is tremendously gratifying.”
The DTCWV Lawyer of the Year is a member who has made a significant contribution toward achieving the goals and objectives of the organization. The member has also demonstrated ethical, personal and professional conduct consistent with the ideals of the organization and has provided service to the profession and the civil defense bar that is truly distinguished, according to DTCWV award requirements and guidelines. •
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