Spring 2012
In this Issue
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- Total Value of Service since Access Now began (Jan. 1, 2008-Apr. 30, 2012): $17 million
- Total number of patients seen: More than 6,000
- Physician volunteers and mid-level providers: 895
Eat. Exercise. Live.
By the time she was referred to Access Now volunteer Dr. Brennan J. Carmody last August, Mary Fletcher was in bad shape.
"She was dying of malnutrition," recalls Carmody, who specializes in bariatric and laparoscopic surgery at Commonwealth Surgeons, part of Bon Secours Medical Group at St. Mary’s Hospital. "She was like a skeleton, and her protein levels were significantly depressed."
It had been a long, hard couple of years for the Goochland county resident. In mid-2010, the Great Recession cost her husband his construction job of nearly 20 years. As a result, they both lost their health insurance. Their problems multiplied and when they lacked the income to pay their home mortgage, they lost their house as well.
In the Media
Access Now: “A Healing Force” for Greater Richmond
Dr. Hazle S. Konerding, chair of the Access Now board, recently published a column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch lauding our many volunteers and the great work of our partners at 22 free clinics and public health departments, along with Bon Secours and HCA health systems.
Access Now and Academy Recognized
Virginia Lawyers Media recently recognized the good works of Access Now's 895 physician volunteers and mid-level providers, its sponsoring hospitals, Bon Secours Richmond Health System and HCA Virginia, and its many funding organizations, including the Bank of America Foundation, the Jenkins Foundation, the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, and the Virginia Health Care Foundation.
The recognition came on May 10 when Deborah Love, executive director of Access Now and the Richmond Academy of Medicine, was named Virginia Lawyers Media’s 2012 "Influential Woman of the Year."
The Board of Directors and staff of Access Now sincerely thank the following for their generous support in 2012:
- Bon Secours Richmond Health System
- HCA Virginia Health System
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc.
- OrthoVirginia
- RAMA Foundation
- Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
- The Bank of America Foundation
- The Beirne Carter Foundation
- The Jenkins Foundation
- Tuckahoe Orthopaedics
- Virginia Cancer Institute
- Virginia Cardiovascular Specialists
- Virginia Health Care Foundation
- William T. Oxenham Foundation
Comments? Letters? Story ideas? Please email Chip Jones, Access Now's communications and marketing director, at cjones@ramdocs.org or call Chip at (804) 622-8136.