Congratulations and Thank You to Our 2010 Grassroots Awards Recipients
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. – Albert Einstein
All of these outstanding Health Center Advocates were recognized at NACHC’s recent Policy & Issues Forum. If you know these folks or happen to see them, please say thanks. Their efforts have helped every health center!
The following were inducted into the NACHC Grassroots Hall of Fame for their lasting contributions to insuring the creation, survival and strength of Health Centers and the Health Center movement through their dedicated and tireless efforts over many years:
Scott S. Graff – Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas, Inc., Sioux Falls, SD
Barbra E. Minch – William F. Ryan Community Health Center, New York, NY
Sip Mouden – Community Health Centers of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Miguel (Mike) Trevino, Jr. – Gateway Community Health Center, Inc., Laredo, TX
Alfreda Turner – Charter Oak Health Center, Inc., Hartford, CT
The NACHC Grassroots MVP Award is named in honor of the late Elizabeth K. (Betsey) Cooke whose constant effort and unflagging persistence as an advocate for America’s health centers and health center patients set an example for all health center advocates to follow.
The 2010 honorees all went above and beyond in their efforts to insure that their Members of Congress actively supported Health Centers or to establish and expand grassroots advocacy efforts at their health center or in their state last year. They are
Ellen Adlam – Peninsula Community Health Services of Alaska, Soldotna, AK
Tary L. Brown – Albany Area Primary Health Care, Albany, GA
Rev. Robert T. Carlson - Penobscot Community Health Center, Bangor, ME
Suzanne Cohen – Health Federation of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
J. Lorraine Estradas – Arroyo Vista Family Health Center, Los Angeles, CA
Jane Garcia - La Clinica De La Raza, Oakland, CA
Blake Hall – Community Health of South Florida, Inc, Miami, FL
Dana Hughes – Michigan Primary Care Association, Lansing, MI
Dennis Kruse – Family Care Health Centers, Saint Louis, MO
E. Benjamin Money, Jr. – North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc., Morrisville, NC
Sarah K, Noonan -Westside Health, Inc, Wilmington, DE
Kim Schwartz – Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center, Ahoskie, NC
Steve Shattls – Valley Health Systems, Inc., Huntington, WV
Soren Tjernell – Community Clinic Consortium, Richmond, CA
Beth Wrobel – HealthLinc, Inc., Valparaiso, IN
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