213: The We Care Jax Model: Removing Barriers to Specialty Care

In this episode of The Health Disparities Podcast, host Dr. Mary O’Connor talks with Angela Strain, Executive Director of We Care Jax. For over 30 years, this organization has connected uninsured and under-resourced neighbors to lifesaving specialty care.

Angela shares powerful patient stories and draws on years of experience to show what it takes to remove barriers, build trust, and create a safety net that truly helps people. She explains real-world obstacles like transportation, language barriers, and the financial burden of illness, and highlights community-driven solutions that help people get the care they need.

Angela and Dr. O’Connor discuss We Care Jax’s approach and share stories from the patients they serve, exploring topics such as:

Community health workers use persistence, trust, and cultural insight to uncover the real reasons behind missed appointments or labels like “non‑compliant.”
Common specialty needs include cardiology, pulmonology, oncology, and advanced imaging, supported by a network of volunteer physicians.
Transportation support, hotel stays, translation services, and food access function as essential parts of healthcare, not optional add‑ons.
Florida’s expansion of the Volunteer Provider Program and the urgent need for increased dental funding are highlighted as key policy issues.
Peer‑to‑peer physician recruitment, strong hospital partnerships, and donor investment help sustain a model rooted in community trust.

Angela also talks about the heart of her work: making sure every patient leaves with no medical debt, their dignity intact, and a real chance to heal. Her stories, including patients moving from homelessness to stable housing and from fear to treatment, show why compassionate, community-centered care is so important.

This episode is full of stories and insights for anyone working in health equity, community health, philanthropy, public health, or systems change.

Angela Strain

We had a patient, and we were very worried about her. There was, there was some unusual symptoms. She was having her gastroenterologist wanted to do an upper and lower GI. Fantastic. He said, I’ll do it. We had a hospital treatment room. We had anesthesiologist standing by, and the patient didn’t show up for the appointment heartbreak, right? Because that’s Oh, we could have put somebody in their slot. Yeah. Doctor said, Okay, I’ll give her a chance next month. Scheduled it again. Everything was lined up and she didn’t show. And in the past, our response typically is two strikes in a situation like that. But we had a community health worker on our team who said, Can I have one more chance? Can I go meet with her? Okay, you go do that. And so she set up lunch. The patient came to lunch. They talked. She said, You know, we’re really worried about you. We’re worried there might be something happening that you need to treat. And she goes, Well, so am I? I’m really scared. But Panera closes at nine o’clock. And we all said, What is Panera closing at nine o’clock? And we learned she was living

in her car, and she’d had nowhere to complete her prep for her colonoscopy, and she was too embarrassed to go to the hospital without having completed her prep. And thanks to that community health worker and that patient, we now raise money for all of our patients in similar situation to have a night in the hotel for prep and a night after the procedure to recover.

Mary O’Connor

Hello, you’re listening to the health disparities podcast from movement is life. I’m Dr Mary O’Connor, Chair of the Board of Directors. Movement is life advances joint health and mobility for women through community programs, education and advocacy. Our work is guided by collaboration, evidence based, behavior change and policy engagement, principles that drive lasting community level transformation. Please join us for our movement is life 2026 annual summit in Detroit, Michigan on September 24 and 25th for details and registration, you can visit our website. Movement is life community.org, today we’re focusing on community driven approaches that connect underserved individuals to specialty care, and we know how challenging that can be. Our guest is the amazing Angela strain, Executive Director of we care Jax, which coordinates donated specialty services for people who otherwise lack access. Angela, welcome and thank you for joining

Angela Strain

Thank you so much for having me today.

Mary O’Connor

So Angela, let’s start. I have been so excited to meet you and interview you, because, you know, I live, I live in Jacksonville Beach, and like you’ve been doing this in Jacksonville, Florida now for a long time, and I’ve been fascinated with the model that you’ve created. So can you tell us a little bit about we care Jax and the model that you use that is so effective for helping underserved individuals get specialty care. Absolutely.

Angela Strain

Thank you so much for the the request we care Jacksonville has been around for over 30 years. We were originally founded by members of the Duval Medical Society, and it started when those those incredible volunteers, were seeing patients for primary care in literally a church basement on a Sunday afternoon, and patients would wait in line, and they would stay until the line was gone, and they realized why. They could treat strep throat. They could treat something that was acute, they very often needed much more. They needed an x ray, or they needed a cardiologist consult. And so it was those original physician volunteers who started asking their colleagues, would you please see my patient? Would you please give an hour to this patient? And that’s where we started. So that was quite a long time ago. Fast forward. The state of Florida actually created a legislative based volunteer Provider Program. The state of Florida allows for any physician who donates their time, doesn’t charge the patient to receive sovereign immunity for

the visit. And there’s some other perks as well, based on number of hours, they can also have their annual licensure fee waived, and they can also build some CMEs so that the work itself provides carrots, in addition to just the feeling great about giving and we care has continued to grow ever since we are we. Became an independent organization in the early 90s and celebrated our 30th anniversary just a few years ago. I’m sure every nonprofit you speak with says we’d love to be out of business, but we know that that’s not happening anytime soon, and so we will be here to help coordinate that advanced diagnostic and specialty care that our uninsured and under resourced neighbors need for as long as they need.

Mary O’Connor

And so first of all, thank you. Thank you for all the work that you and the We Care. Jax team does to support these individuals. You know, our neighbors, people in our community, underserved individuals, what are some of the more common specialty needs of the people that you serve? You mentioned cardiology, and now I’m sure there’s oncology and, of course, orthopedics, because I’m an orthopedic surgeon, so

Angela Strain

and we, I’m going to talk to you after this call a little bit more about that, all right, yes, we support 36 specialties right now. We work with the safety net primary care clinics here in Jacksonville. So there are 14 currently that are our partners. We believe that all care starts with primary care. The primary care provider is the quarterback, and when our clinic partners need support for a patient, that’s when a referral is placed to we care checks. The most common one are things like X rays, MRIs, ultrasounds. We make sure that patients get those then we move on from there. So pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, all the way up to oncology. That is the most complex case that we can get in the door. But I won’t say it’s the only one. So many of our neighbors have got comorbidities. They might be living with an autoimmune arthritis, plus they’ve got diabetes, plus they’ve got hypertension. As the conditions mount in the body, as you know, it takes a lot for someone to be able to get into treatment and to get on a pathway to really get them back to productivity and get them to a place where they’re really healing. We want all of our neighbors to have the best opportunity for their greatest health. That’s our vision. And so that means, if we should come up with a patient who needs a specialty we haven’t quite resourced, we’re going to go out and ask. We’re going to be knocking on doors. There are over 500 volunteer physicians in our database who have said yes, and that is amazing, but it’s not the end. We see patients all the time with with new things we learn every day, which I don’t think. I just know all of us have to keep learning, so when we come up with a new case, we might very well be out seeking a new specialty.

Mary O’Connor

That’s, yeah, that’s amazing. And I’m sure that Well, I hope that the volunteer physicians are reaching out to their colleagues and also tapping on them to help them support the cause as well.

Angela Strain

And that truly is the best connection, peer to peer, I’m sure, as you know, is always the most successful. So sometimes we will recruit either the physicians on our board or our longtime physician volunteers to make the first phone call to a new specialty, because truly, we are a connected community. Duval is unique. We have a wonderful feeling of community spirit. And everybody knows everybody. We are just a few degrees of separation. It feels like all over town, even though we’re over a million people, right?

Mary O’Connor

I’m sure that there’s a lot of challenges. There’s always challenges, but some that come to mind that I think our listeners would be interested in is those kind of standard social determinants of health that are barriers for people to access the care that you’re providing. So you’ve now gone you’ve now figured out, okay, I can get a specialist to see you, but for that underserved individual that might have transportation challenges or language challenges, right, how are you addressing those barriers? Right?

Angela Strain

Perfect question, perfect question for this time, right? So we are again fortunate in Duval the United Way team has a program called Ride united, and during regular hours of operation, we if we know about the appointment in advance, we can book an appointment through ride united to get lift to the patient’s house to get them to their appointment. That is fantastic. It is a wonderful, huge lift. But from time to time, it’s before hours, it’s after hours. They’re going for a surgery that might take them into the evening, or maybe they’re going to be released on a Saturday. So we also raise money so that we too can offer. Lift to our patients. We, of course, work with the local JTA. We have the bus passes. Those are great, but when you need to see a doctor at a specific time and they don’t like it when you’re running late, we’ve got to make sure they’re at the door. So raising money to make sure that we can supplement what ride United is able to do is a huge part, we also have patients who need to travel safely, if they’ve got a mobility device, if they’ve got a wheelchair, we’ve had to have patients transported to doctors while they were on stretchers. So there’s, there’s local services to do that, but they are not cheap. It’s about $150 round trip. So again, we’re raising money to make sure that no patient has to say no to a doctor’s appointment just because transportation is a barrier for some. We also, you know, raise money to do gas cards very often, somebody might have, you know, a neighbor or a relative who’s willing to go with them to an appointment, but they really need that extra help to make sure that the driver is made whole. So we’re trying to be super creative in terms of transportation. We’re 900 square miles here in DePaul, and people live in every zip code that are our patients. So that is one of the more complex things, but tackling it is working as long as we can continue to raise money in terms of language. We we found ourselves in this situation a few years ago of not having the resources our network needed. And unfortunately that often means that a provider or clinic might say, Oh, just bring, bring a relative to do the translation.

Yeah, we know that’s not standard care, right? A mother shouldn’t have her teenage son trying to explain her health status to a doctor. So again, we’ve gone to our donors and said, Hey, we need this. And we now subscribe to a program called Genie that has got over 180 languages, and it’s a live video person who’s doing the translation. They’re all over the world, so you just log in and you say which language, and then you’ll have someone there with you. And we think that’s super important, that you’ve got that visual because so much of communication is non verbal. You need to see how they’re expressing, you need to see what that facial expression looks like, right? So we’re delighted to have that. We again rely on our donors to help support it, and we hope that it is a standard that spreads throughout all the safety net, because it truly is the most patient centric way to handle that.

Mary O’Connor

How do you raise money? This is, no, I mean, isn’t this? This is, like, this essential question, right? You can’t provide this service. I mean, okay, the physicians are volunteering, but there’s infrastructure costs, the cost that you just shared about, you know, transporting patients, the cost of the language services. So, how have you been so successful at the philanthropic effort? Right? To keep the mission going,

Angela Strain

We have been incredibly fortunate. We are at about 84% is grant funded, but not a single grant. So we’ve got more than 20 grant makers every year, who we go to who help support us, including the city of Jacksonville, the public service grants. And there’s also been, from time to time a city of Jacksonville mayor, city council, budget, appropriation, private foundations help us, and the rest is individuals. We have some amazing supporters who’ve been with us for many years, and some new ones with our new board members just over the last few they’ve done creative things. We’ve had progressive dinners that a group did last summer the outdoorsy group, they hosted them for a month to help pay for some of the items we needed for our food pantry. We’ve had events in people’s homes, events in in restaurants, just trying to get the story out and have donors have an accessible opportunity to learn more. It is, it is a privilege to get to tell the stories of our patients, and it’s amazing again, that Duval County is so generous when you realize that every single person that we’re talking about is truly your neighbor. It’s hard to say no, right? It is hard to look at your neighbor and say, That’s not a cause I can get behind. And basically, about every dollar that we raise brings in $25 of health care that is returned to the community. So the return on investment, if you are someone who loves that number piece, that is a fantastic investment in our local neighbors.

Mary O’Connor

Wow, amazing work. Angela. I mean, I am, I am in awe. And no, truly. I mean, it is, um. Um, it’s impressive, and it’s so meaningful and it’s so important the work that you’re doing. So if are there certain policies, either local, state, national policies, that have supported we care Jack’s in

its journey to date. And then, of course, the next question, what kind of other policies would you like to see that would further support the mission and success?

Angela Strain

Oh, that’s a big one. Yeah, that’s a big one. We in 2024 March, 2024 Governor DeSantis signed a group a packet of legislation, which is generally called live healthy. And in that legislation, he updated our volunteer Provider Program, so now we can actually see patients living at or below 300% of federal poverty level. It used to be 200 so that was a huge benefit. There are folks in our community living in that 200 to 300 Oh, go ahead,

Mary O’Connor

Angela, if I can interrupt, sure, give some numbers to that, because I don’t think that the average person understands like 200 or 300% may sound like a lot, but it is not a lot.

Angela Strain

That’s right. So 100% of poverty a person is making about 15,000 a year, and the average rent and utilities in Jacksonville is well over 24,000 so if you even think about what that means, just to keep my lights on, just to keep a roof over my head, I’m already disadvantaged if I am at 100% of poverty. So by taking it up just in the increments, that gives you that sense of where we are. A lot of folks think, Oh, well, you know, I would have thought that that would have been plenty, no. And then you start looking at at conditions like cancer. Cancer is the can lead to bankruptcy. Breast cancer patients, for example, have a two and a half times more common incidence of filing bankruptcy within five years than any of their neighbors. Financial toxicity from a medical crisis can interrupt a whole family. That can interrupt generational wealth. It can keep you from going to school, sending your kids to school, starting your own business, buying a house. So that is a huge part of what our focus is. Interrupting that financial toxicity. We want every patient who leads us to leave with zero medical debt. So all the all of the policies that help get us towards that solution for our neighbors are absolutely welcome. So that raise from the state to 300% means that we are able to work with folks who are in what is called the Alice Alice income, set, asset, limited, income constrained, employed that in our community, the difference between one or two paychecks and losing everything. And that is something that you know, one of our founding staff members, Miss Freddie Webster, she said to me, the reason that people need to remember this is that we are all just a paycheck or two away from needing help. And I think that that’s a huge message in Jacksonville, 50% of our neighbors are either uninsured on Medicaid or accessing the Affordable Care Act for their health 50% and with the giant changes coming to Medicaid, the restriction, the reversal of the tax credits for the ACA, we know that we’re going to be seeing even more of our neighbors fall back into the safety net. Those federal policies, to me, are some of the threats that we’re facing. You know, 140,000 of our neighbors are uninsured. Looking into the future, I can see that number growing exponentially when people fall out of Medicaid or fall off the Affordable Care Act.

Mary O’Connor

I know it’s really shocking. I I had to help one of my adult children right shop for health care insurance. And we’re talking about a very, extremely healthy young adult, sure, and the cost is, I mean, it’s crazy, it’s, it’s, yeah, I don’t know another way to put it, except it’s absolutely crazy, and of course, there’s high deductibles and out of pocket expenses. And so if you’re out there trying to purchase health insurance because it’s not being supplied by your employer, it is a. Brutal. And I think that, you know, probably the old terminology we would have for those people is the working poor, right? These are people that are working I mean, they’re trying to make it and improve their financial stability and care for their families, and they do not have access to insurance because they’re doing jobs that don’t provide employer sponsored coverage, and they do not generate the income that allows them to go out and purchase insurance on their own. Yeah, yes, it’s 70.

Angela Strain

About 75% of our patients are working at least one or more part time job. A lot since covid have been in the gig economy, so delivering for Instacart, driving for Uber a lot of those jobs have come online, and people are taking advantage of that and doing the work that’s available. There are no benefits associated. And very often, we may have scheduled an appointment for a patient, and they pick up a shift and they’re looking at, can I pay my utilities, or can I go to this doctor’s appointment? And very often, paying the utilities wins out. And so helping our neighbors are who are going through all of this and facing it very often, it’s about hand holding and about encouragement and saying, Hey, I know that that’s an important thing. If we could get you into our food pantry this week to alleviate that bill, would you go to this doctor’s appointment? And very often that’s that’s what has to happen, because when you have a family counting on you, you’ve gotta be able to do it all. And unfortunately, for so many of our neighbors, it is a struggle, absolutely.

Mary O’Connor

And we know, you know, are you going to is the money going to go to put food on the table, or is it going to go to pay for your medication? Yes, that’s a big one. And we know in general the answer is food on the table to feed the kids. That’s right, yeah, Angela, I want to go back to ask you what kind of advice you would give other communities that are looking to create essentially a replica of what we have here in Duval County with we care jacks. So what kind of advice would you give them, essential kind of building blocks and pitfalls to try and avoid?

Angela Strain

Absolutely, I wish this was a program that we could take everywhere. The state of Florida is actually one of just a handful of states that has a volunteer Provider Program in its in its statutes. So one of the very first things I would recommend if you’re not in Florida is to check out your state statute. Will your state offer sovereign immunity for your providers who are seeing patients at no cost? The way Florida is that is one of the key pieces.

Mary O’Connor

And what does that? Let me see it, make sure I got this right. So the sovereign immunity means that I, as an orthopedic surgeon, go to a week here Jacksonville Clinic, and I’m seeing patients there. I’m not charging them. I’m doing it as a volunteer, that while I could be sued by that patient, the state of Florida is providing my medical malpractice coverage so I am not paying for it out of my pocket, and they would provide, obviously, the defense for me, if I were to be, you know, sued Basically for malpractice,

Angela Strain

exactly, and that has been key to being able to bring all physicians who want to serve under the under the umbrella. A lot of retired physicians aren’t done yet. They’ve got plenty of skill and expertise. They want to keep giving. I have an uncle in Tennessee who is in that exact situation, and he really wanted to volunteer, but unfortunately, Tennessee doesn’t have a policy that would allow him to do so. So if you wanted to start a program like this, I would definitely start with, What does my state offer? What are the opportunities? Because having the volunteer physicians that say, Yes, I’ll see that patient, you’ve got to put your you put yourself in their shoes. What would make it easier for them to say yes? What are the barriers to them to say yes? That is key. And then you’ve got to really continue the relationships. When our doctors say yes, I’ll see a patient, we also need to make sure that their practice administrator, their front office, their back office are saying yes with the doctor, because that’s who makes the schedules. So those relationships are really important, and we are grateful in this city to have five incredible hospital systems. Every one of them is working in some capacity to support the safety net. Some are sending residents in. And to do the work in the clinics themselves. Some are saying, yes, we’ll help you with the patient who has cancer by offering that surgery at no cost, or that infusion, or we have a practice who’s doing Radiation Oncology at no cost. All the relationships have to be built so that you can continue to offer that wide variety of care to the neighbors in your community. So that is where you have to start. It’s all about people to people.

Mary O’Connor

Wow, that’s amazing. All right, let’s do a few kind of rapid fire questions that people might be interested in. And the first one, I’ll just give you three. One immediate policy you’d ask of local leaders, and then of state leaders, even though I know that Florida is already has policies that are clearly essential to to you building the model that you have what? What more would help

Angela Strain

So we are again, fortunate in Duval, both the mayor’s office and city council has many champions for the work that we do with the safety net. One of the things that I would love for everyone to start doing is removing some of the stigma and bias. Words like this is care for the indigent. Indigent sounds like a condition I can’t get over uninsured. We can fix that. We can fix

that so very often, even if it isn’t policy, it’s even just the language that is used and really removing some of the bias. Our neighbors are baristas, they’re construction workers, they’re landscape contractors, they’re dental hygienists who fall within the level of care that we offer. So we need to really get to a point where we’re recognizing that maybe some old, old thoughts about who it is that needs this help those need to go away.

Mary O’Connor

And on the state level, is there something that, you know, I should be calling Ron DeSantis? Well, I don’t have him on speed dial, but you know, Governor DeSantis and say, Angela needs this.

Angela Strain

We need this. So one of the things right now that is moving through the legislative session, we need an expansion in dental care. We need opportunities. The number one request that we get from new patients, besides access to health care, is I haven’t seen a dentist in three or four years, or I’ve never seen a dentist. One of our clinics has a waiting list for their dental operatories of 1200 patients right now. So the state is considering some legislation in its session on expanding funding for dental care. I know if that were to pass right away, our community could use it. And truthfully, health is from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes, and if I don’t have every system covered, including oral health, we’re in trouble. So that’s one that I’m hoping during this legislative session that they’ll take up.

Mary O’Connor

Yes, I think that there’s a growing appreciation of the impact of oral health on overall health, right? So, it’s not just about like preventing someone from getting cavities, right? It is. It goes far beyond that.

Angela Strain

And when our cancer patients come in and they’re going to have radiation oncology, we need dentists to be able to do a panoramic view and pull out any old metal fillings. There’s just tons of work that has to be done before they can even get started in their treatment plan. So we need to have access to more dentists and more dental operatories and more opportunities for patients to see dental care throughout our safety net.

Mary O’Connor

So for clinicians that are listening, what is one way that clinicians can get involved now, certainly, those who live here in the Jacksonville area, that’s easy, reach out to reach out to you, and we care jacks. But even just broadly, clinicians across the country, we’re a national podcast.

Do most hospitals or healthcare systems have programs to support the underserved in their communities.

Angela Strain

So that is a terrific question. Most hospital systems do have a way to financially support patients after the fact. Once they’ve got a bill, you can go in and ask for forgiveness or find a payment plan or please adjust it. But if you’re really interested, there are clinics all over the country that volunteer in medicine. We have a local in here, but there are volunteers in medicine chapters all over the US in my hometown of Memphis, the Church Health Center is the volunteer. Years in medicine of that community, so physicians can look online to ask their peers, who’s doing that work. Federally Qualified Health Centers. The FQHC movement started in the 60s, and it’s nationwide now, and all of those facilities need a great body of physician volunteers and clinicians to support them. I can’t imagine a single community that your podcast reaches where there’s not someone who would love to have a clinician call them up or knock on the door and say, How can I help? We’re all, all of us in the same boat when it comes to making sure that our neighbors who are uninsured have access. Absolutely.

Mary O’Connor

Angela, I’m going to close with what has been the most rewarding aspect of this work for you personally, in what sustains you through all the challenges of funding and operations. How do you keep going?

Angela Strain

Well, that is a fantastic question. And I have to say, it is the individual stories that keep me going. We have a patient if I have time for a patient story,

Mary O’Connor

you do. We love patients. Brilliant patient stories are, What? What? It’s all about, fantastic. Angela Strain

So we have a fantastic relationship with Borland Groover, which is our local gastro neurology practice, and through them, we’re able to serve patients with consults, but also colonoscopies, both those that are for regular wellness checks and those that are for symptoms. We had a patient, and we were very worried about her. There was there was some unusual symptoms she was having. Her gastroenterologist wanted to do an upper and lower GI fantastic. He said, I’ll do it. We had a hospital treatment room. We had anesthesiologist standing by, and the patient didn’t show up for the appointment. Heartbreak, right? Because that’s, oh, we could have put somebody in our slot. Doctor said, Okay, I’ll give her a chance next month. Scheduled it again. Everything was lined up and she didn’t show. And in the past, our response typically is two

strikes in a situation like that. But we had a community health worker on our team who said, Can I have one more chance? Can I go meet with her? Okay, you go do that. And so she set up lunch. The patient came to lunch. They talked. She said, You know, we’re really worried about you. We’re worried there might be something happening that you need to treat. And she goes, Well, so am I? I’m really scared, but Panera closes at nine o’clock. And we all said, What is Panera closing at nine o’clock, and we learned she was living in her car, and she’d had nowhere to complete her prep for her colonoscopy, and she was too embarrassed to go to the hospital without having completed her prep. And thanks to that community health worker and that patient, we now raise money for all of our patients in similar situation, to have a night in a hotel for prep and a night after the procedure to recover, just a little respite, and that has made all the difference. We went from a 50% show rate in gastroenterology with some changes, we now have a 90% show rate, and it just took a community health worker so committed to her patient that she said, Please give me another chance. And I cannot tell you that stories like that happen all the time, and that patient, she’s now safely housed. She’s in senior housing. Her community health worker helped her acquire Medicaid and Medicare. She’s independent and she’s healthy, and that wouldn’t have happened if we had just stuck to the two strikes and you’re out. So we’ve gotten rid of that. We’re no longer saying that. We’re saying, let’s figure out how we can meet every single patient where they are, and figure out what it is that’s going on. The other word I wish we could get rid of is non compliant. That is the worst word. Patients are not non compliant. Patients are facing a situation where they don’t know what the next step is. That patient didn’t know how to solve the problem of prepping for her colonoscopy. My goodness, it doesn’t take a ton to just extend the hand and say, we’re going to figure out a solution, and it’s going to work for you, and it’s probably going to work for the next 10 patients in your situation too. So to me, that’s, you know, that is, that’s what keeps me going. What are the problems we can solve? What are the things we can rethink? You know, respect is looking at a thing again, looking twice, truly respecting the people who come to us for care. That’s what it’s all about. And that keeps me going

Mary O’Connor

Angela, that is an amazing story, and I think partly because it really highlights how you know if, if you have never had anything close. Access to that experience. How could you possibly even contemplate it, right? Like the the idea that she kept missing these colonoscopy appointments because she had no place to go the night before for the prep, like, would never have entered my mind, right? And so it’s really again, being open to understanding, you know, where is this individual right now? And how can you at we care Jack’s solve these barriers for them. That is amazing. That is amazing. So, wow, yeah, that’s a great one.

Angela Strain

Congratulations. Oh, well, congratulations to the community health worker who thought of it, and to all the supporters who came up and said yes when we asked, we said, here’s the here’s the challenge. Supporters have come forward so that we’re able to make that possible. We couldn’t do the work without it. Absolutely.

Mary O’Connor

All right, we’re gonna, we’ll wrap up. So Angela, I want to thank you for sharing these fantastic insights, for the work that you and your team and the countless volunteer physicians and nurse practitioners and everyone else do every day. For listeners who want to learn more or get involved, please visit we care. Jax online. This wraps up this episode of the health disparities podcast for movement is life. I’m Dr Mary O’Connor. Until next time, be safe and be well.