Local Clinic Partners With Organization to Feed Over 100 Local Families

(Left to Right) Joel Hawkins, Courtney Stewart, Dana Woodcock, and Karen Agee, who participated in the charity event.

Peytin Manor, story:
On Tuesday, December 16th, Graves Gilbert Clinic and House on the Hill partnered together to provide fresh and healthy food for regional priority populations such as rural low income families who may not meet the traditional income requirements. This event is called "Food is Medicine" with Graves Gilbert Clinic and House on the Hill and is located at the Graves Gilbert Clinic in Brownsville. 

The program educated the community of chronic disease prevention and provided a mobile grocery store to help low income individuals. During this event, they were able to feed approximately one hundred people across the community. 

Inside House on the Hill's mobile grocery store.

Dana Woodcock, Practice Manager at Graves Gilbert Clinic in Brownsville, stated, "This project is special to me, because it helps my community.  Being able to help my patients, friends, staff, family, and neighbors.  Sometimes families have financial insecurities from an unexpected car repair or job layoff," she said. "With the involvement of helping launch this mobile grocery store and knowing the benefits it brings is very rewarding. This program is here to help move people to sustainability while bringing people together to help one another.  Working daily in this community and noticing patients that have needs that they sometimes struggle to meet, and then being involved in a solution, gives me so much joy."

The service is available from Graves Gilbert Clinic and House on the Hill every third Tuesday of the month between 1pm-4pm.