“I was giving a talk at the University of South Carolina Family Practice Symposium on my work. A family physician in the audience stood up and said the countryside is littered with the bodies of family physicians who thought they could make a difference. Why did you?...
“Don’t tell the community what they need.” health pioneer. Over his 35-year career, he championed community-driven care for low- and moderate-income, isolated, and underserved populations. As the founder of the first state office of rural health in the United...
The signs said it all. “Black Maternal Health is Nonpartisan.” This was the message advocates, providers, and parents took to the legislature for Black Maternal Health Day of Action on April 19, 2023. FHLI President and CEO David Reese and staff members joined...
In April, we announced the launch of the Project ECHO Network in North Carolina (PEN-NC). This is such an exciting development for our state, and we are already hard at work with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) to get everything started. We...
FHLI offices will be closed on Monday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of the last enslaved Black Americans. On June 19, 1865, about 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation...