Restoring Health Through Community.
The Healthy Appalachia Institute’s mission is to improve the health, education, environment and prosperity for residents of central Appalachia by collaborating across communities and organizations, generating and implementing new ideas, and engaging the social, economic and scientific issues that exist at the interface of health and the Appalachian culture.
Wells Fargo Continues Support for the Healthy Appalachia Institute
Building on the success of the establishment of the Wells Fargo Healthy Appalachia Student Fellows Awards last fall, Wells Fargo has renewed its support for undergraduate research at the institute.
Healthy Appalachia Faculty Member Ann Duesing to Receive DeBakey Award at the Library of Congress
Ann Duesing, a Librarian at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia and a founding member of the Healthy Appalachia Institute faculty at UVa-Wise, is the 2011 recipient of the National Library of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Library 
Services Outreach Award. Ms. Duesing will receive the award at a ceremony on November 3, 2011 at the Library of Congress. For more information see: http://news.hsl.virginia.edu/?p=2785
Verizon Foundation Provides Funding to Develop Telenursing Curriculum
The use of telehealth services is expanding rapidly in southwestern Virginia, and Verizon is helping The University of Virginia’s College at Wise lead the way by keeping its nursing curriculum up to speed with the technology.
A $20,000 Verizon Foundation grant is funding the development of one of Virginia’s first telehealth nursing curriculum at the Department of Nursing at UVa-Wise. The project is a partnership among UVa-Wise, the Healthy Appalachia Institute and the University of Virginia Office of Telemedicine.
