by Tom Peterson | Dec 3, 2019 | Baptists on Mission, FaithHealth Stories
FaithHealth Hero: Richard Brunson By Melanie Raskin Richard Brunson is waiting. It is Sept. 4, and Category 2 Hurricane Dorian is churning up the East Coast toward North Carolina. He has done all he can: He has contacted churches to help stage people and...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 7, 2019 | FaithHealth Stories
By Melanie Raskin Helen Milleson is living the dream, but it’s not what you would expect. For most people, that would mean wealth and fame, privilege and power. But for Milleson, a pastor’s-kid-turned-pastor’s-wife-turned-social worker, it is fulfilling her calling to...
by Tom Peterson | Jan 14, 2019 | FaithHealth Stories, population health north carolina, Uncategorized
There’s a great article in the Greensboro-based News & Record about a remarkable woman, Lelia Moore, Congregational Nurse Coordinator at Cone Health since 1998. Moore retires this week, In the article, she recalls her first day at Cone Health: “I...
by Tom Peterson | Dec 5, 2018 | community health worker, FaithHealth Stories, population health north carolina
Community health workers right FIT for Formerly Incarcerated Transition program By Melanie Raskin Imagine serving your time and, at last, being released from prison. Second chances can be tough if you don’t have housing, a job, or a medical home. It’s even worse if...
by Tom Peterson | Nov 5, 2018 | Downtown Health Plaza, FaithHealth Stories, population health north carolina
By Les Gura Robert Jones speaks softly, in the gentle Southern accent of his native Scotland County, North Carolina. Behind that quiet voice, though, lies a powerful life purpose. And a mighty pen. Jones, PhD, is director of the Downtown Health Plaza (DHP), a center...
by Tom Peterson | Apr 30, 2018 | FaithHealth Community, FaithHealth Stories
Wilkes Central High School senior Kelsey Call (pictured in center) chose to focus her senior project on breast cancer awareness because the disease had affected several members of her family. Her focus was to raise funds to help...