Healthcare check proves healthy | Clarendon Citizen Online

Jack Justice/Clarendon Citizen - Light crowds were handled easily by the volunteers and professionals conducting the SC Mission 2012.

Clarendon County Healthcare providers and officials at all levels can hold their heads up high at the conclusion of this weekend?s SC Mission 2012-Coastal Plain free healthcare event. Throngs or crowds of people who needed health services did not materialize, giving a real nod to the fact that our existing system is alive and well and functioning to the needs of the population.

Checks like this are necessary and provide system indicators of some break down or inadequacy that needs addressing. But, Clarendon County has withstood the test which gives reason for living here.

In what could be labeled ?extreme care? the number of volunteers equaled the number of people who sought care on the first day. 250-plus, cheerful and dedicated volunteers, along with the health professionals providing the core services, insured those seeking care were ?hand carried? to every station.

Organization was prevalent all the way out into the parking areas around the complex. The mission system would rival any ?valet service? at a five-star hotel.

Local officials had studied well at other such events insuring there were no breakdowns from the time patients checked in until they reached the check out table. If any person appeared to be lost, in a matter of seconds someone would be at their side providing them personal help.

Color-coded t-shirts made it simple to identify the volunteers and the various levels of management for the event. Everything was well identified with signs and even footprints to keep the flow headed in the right direction and to the various stations.

Many city and county officials served as volunteers throughout the event. Their presence gave even more import to the idea that we live in a community that cares.

?This is definitely a worthwhile use of our energy and resources hosting the mission event,? cited Travis Pruden, Director of Wellness/Fitness within the Clarendon Health System. Fellow Director of Public Relations for the system, Jeffrey Black, remarked that ?the smoothness of every facet incorporated into the event is mind-boggling.?

Both,? Scherrie Cogdill, Director of the Cypress Foundation and Lesley Dykes, Director of Business Development could not help but show a ?broad grim as they moved about in their volunteer roles during the event.

There were 500 residents who had some facet of care rendered over the two-day period.

For more detailed information concerning this event, please contact Cassandra Brunson at 435-8463 ext. 3941.

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