HOPE Family Health

Why Community Health Centers May Be the Solution More Americans Need By Liz Ferrell, Development and Community Relations Specialist, and Lauren Smith, CEO, HOPE Family Health “The American dream is not being a small business owner or owning a home. It’s affording healthcare when you’re sick.” – Lauren Smith, wife, mother, and CEO of HOPE Family Health Most Americans don’t realize how fragile their healthcare security really is—until one diagnosis changes everything. “The American dream is...

By Liz Ferrell, Development & Community Relations Specialist With Valentine’s Day on February 14th, romance and heart themes find their way into every store aisle and media image. Heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, school valentine exchanges, winged Cupids shooting unsuspecting victims in the heart with love-poisoned arrows – it’s silly fun to brighten a drab month. But let’s get straight to the heart of the matter. This month HOPE is showing a different kind of love by raising awareness...

By Liz Ferrell Development & Community Outreach Specialist Janice York, FNP-C Occasionally in the life of every organization an employee comes along whose name achieves legend status. At HOPE Family Health, Janice York has become such a legend. A Family Nurse Practitioner, Janice has worked at HOPE since 2013, serving most of those years as the provider at HOPE’s Westside Clinic, on Highway 52 in western Macon County. But she initially joined the HOPE Family in 2006. Beginnings Born and...