HOPE Family Health

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...

By Liz Ferrell, Development & Community Relations Specialist It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and many of us have already begun the holiday weekend. Heck, some of us have already begun the Christmas holiday!   You may do a daily countdown throughout November of things that make you thankful. You may consider Thanksgiving its own holiday, of equal weight with others, and use the day to spend time with family, and contemplate and give thanks for your blessings. You may be really “old...