Chaired by Patricia Curry.
The committee works with the community organizers in providing opportunities for community programs and health fairs to improve the health of African Americans and other minorities in the community.
Some of the services we have provided for the community are:
- Blood Pressure Screenings and Blood Glucose Screenings
- Donations to Health Care for the Homeless & Hanna Home for Abused Women & Children
- Formed a BBNA team to participate in the Breast Cancer Walk, Sickle Cell Walk and Walk for Obesity.
- Blood Pressure Screenings, Health & Lifestyle Awareness Education & Health Fairs
- Compassionate Care Donations to Salvation Army
- Compassionate Care Donations to Children’s Village
- Compassionate Care Donations to Jessie’s Place
- Compassionate Care Donations to Hannah Home for Abused Women & Children
- Compassionate Care Donations to the Homeless
- Compassionate Care Donations to Southern Care Hospice
- Compassionate Care Donations to Jasper House for HIV/AIDS Tenants
- AKA Health Fair
- Delta Sigma Theta Health Fair
- Colon Cancer Walk
- Project Homeless
- Women’s Health 5K
- Sickle Cell Walk
- AME Pentecostal Explosion
- Adopt a School-Back to School Supplies Collection Project
- American Heart Walk
- Walk from Obesity
- Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Breast Cancer Walk
We have collaborated with the following service organizations:
- March of Dimes
- Southern Care Hospice
- Jessie's Place
- Alabama Diabetes Foundation
- Medical Center East (Sweet Sunday)
- Alabama State Nurses Association
- Aids and Minorities Organization
- American Lung Association
- Sickle Cell Foundation
- March of Dimes
- Alabama Alliance of Nursing Organizations
- Southern Care
- GlaxoSmithkline
- Novartis
- Astrazenica
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