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RAM organizer Teresa Gardner receives honor

Published November 26th, 2009 | 1 Comments

COEBURN — The Health Wagon’s Teresa Gardner has been inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners during the organization’s recent national conference at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville.

The AANP fellow program was established in 2000 to recognize nurse practitioner leaders who have made outstanding contributions to health care through clinical practice, research, education or policy. Priority initiatives are the development of leadership and mentorship programs for nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students.

Gardner covers all the above as executive director of the Health Wagon, a Clinchco-based mobile health care clinic serving Southwest Virginia. The Health Wagon spearheads the annual Remote Area Medical (RAM) Health Expedition at the Wise County Fairgrounds each summer, the nation’s largest health care outreach program.

The daughter of Pauline and Jerry Owens of Coeburn stands at the helm of a complex RAM event every year to help coordinate more than 1,000 volunteers delivering a wide range of free health services to thousands of people during the annual three-day event in Wise County.

Founded in 1985, AANP represents the interests of approximately 125,000 nurse practitioners in the country.

AANP advocates for the active role of nurse practitioners as providers of high-quality, cost-effective and personalized health care.

Fellows of the AANP are recognized as visionaries committed to the global advancement of nursing through the development of imaginative and creative nurse practitioner leaders. The organization holds an annual “think tank” to craft strategies for the future of nurse practitioners and health care outside the confines of traditional thinking.

For more information, visit www.aanp.org.

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Congrats Teresa, The Health Wagon is such a necessary service these days when profit care comes ahead of patient care in Southwest Virginia. Rick Boucher voted no for health care for all and should be ashamed of himself, we are paying for he and his wife to have coverage but over 100,000 of us don't even have access to health care. Even those who are insured are so rationed people are paying less coverage. My experience with the big corporate names was and still is to this day a bloody nightmare.

http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=62

I trust The Health Wagon more than any other provider we have. Keep up the great work !

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