Press release
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 24, 2014) – Mission Health and Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) hosted the 14th Annual Spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award Program. Each year, Mission partners with MAHEC to recognize employees for their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion. This year, there were three winners; two from Mission Health, which for the first time extended this to all its members, and one from MAHEC.
“Mission Health is devoted to promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment to our patients and visitors, as well as among our employees,” said Jill Hoggard-Green, PhD, RN, Chief Operating Officer of Mission Health and President, Mission Hospital and Mission Medical Associates. “Our goal is to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities across the organization, the communities we serve throughout Western North Carolina, and beyond.”
The ceremony began and closed with the Spirit of MLK Choir, made up of Mission Health and MAHEC members. It was followed by a keynote address delivered by David R. Williams, PhD, the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Professor of African American
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