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Mental Health is very real. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Since its inception in 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been a cornerstone of addressing the challenges faced by millions of Americans living with mental health conditions.

Shattered Mirrors When looking in a mirror what do you see? Are you satisfied with what is staring back, or will you make your own image of how you want to be perceived! Broken Mirrors is simply a collection of poems and stories from dark places, during a tough time in relationships, to su***de ideation. As humans...

We were thrilled to be a part of the Cobb Senior Expo & Marketplace 2024! Over 1,350 people came seeking information, resources, and services aimed at improving the lives of our senior community and their families! We enjoyed meeting so many new smiling faces from our community and look forward to continuing to serve Cobb and surrounding counties for many years to come!

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Hands of An Angel Homecare was delighted to sponsor the March birthdays of the month for Celebration Village of Acworth! We had a great time with Marsha Epperly, Activity Director, and all of the wonderful residents celebrating this fun occasion!

Hands of An Angel Homecare is proud to support Stand Up For Seniors non-profit organization and hope you will check out their mission to help low income seniors and veterans in Cherokee County.

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Friends learned all about Home Care while enjoying muffins, fruit, and coffee during Care and Connections at Tim D. Lee Senior Center! Hands of An Angel Homecare is proud to be a helpful resource to our local senior community!

Happy International Women's Day from our team at Hands of An Angel Homecare!
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Hands of An Angel Homecare is here to help you or your loved one get back on their feet following surgery, stroke, heart attack, illness, and more. We offer short and long term care catered to each individual's needs. We invite you to give us a call or visit our website to learn more!

Hands Of An Angel Homecare Hands of An Angel Homecare is a local non-medical home care agency that was built on integrity & love

Dr. Mae C. Jemison

First Black Female astronaut in NASA history (August, 1992). After earning her M.D. at Cornell University in 1981, Dr. Jemison went on to research various vaccines in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control (CDC). She continued, and quite literally elevated, her medical research on the shuttle Endeavour by conducting experiments in materials processing and life sciences in space.

Dr. Ben Carson

Director (at age 32), Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Separated Siamese twins joined at the cranium in 1987. A 70-member surgical team, led by Dr. Carson, operated for 22 hours.
Graduate of Yale University; MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine
Described in his autobiography, Gifted Hands (1990), as an unmotivated child from the Detroit ghetto

Dr. David Satcher

16th Surgeon General of the United States, sworn in Feb. 13, 1998
Director of Center for Disease Control (CDC), Nov. 15, 1993 until being sworn in as Surgeon General. While at CDC, he increased childhood immunization rates from 55% in 1992 to 78% in 1996.
President, Meharry Medical College, 1982-1993
Elected in 1986 to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences

Dr. Watts spent more than 50 years advocating for civil and human rights and for the quality of medical care for all residents of Durham, especially the poor and underserved. He broke racial barriers when he pushed for certification of black medical students.

First African American to be certified by a surgical specialty board in North Carolina.

Played key role in founding Lincoln Community Health Center, a free standing clinic, which served people regardless of their ability to pay.

Joined the staff of Lincoln Hospital as Chief of Surgery in 1950. Lincoln was one of the few American hospitals at the time that granted surgical privileges to African-American physicians.

Dr. George Cleveland Hall
(1864-1930)
Pioneer in surgery and Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board at Provident Hospital; Appointed Chief of Staff at Hospital in 1926
Leading African American physician in Chicago, 1900-1930
Instrumental in the establishment of infirmaries throughout the south
Organized the first postgraduate course at Provident Hospital
Founded Cook County Physicians' Association of Chicago
Vice President of National Urban League and instrumental in getting it started in Chicago
Active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Helped to find interest in financial support of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History

Dr. William Augustus Hinton
(1883-1959)

First African American physician to publish a textbook - Syphilis and Its Treatment, 1936. He is known internationally for the development of a flocculation method for the detection of syphilis called the "Hinton Test." Dr. Hinton is also the first African American to hold a professorship at Harvard University. He attended the University of Kansas from 1900-1902 and then transferred to Harvard, graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1912. From 1921-1946, he taught bacteriology and immunology at Harvard before being promoted to clinical professor in 1949.

Even as a renowned gastroenterologist, Leonidas Harris Berry, MD, faced racism in the workplace. Berry was the first black doctor on staff at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in 1946, but he had to fight for an attending position there for years. “I have spent many years of crushing disappointment at the threshold of opportunity,” he wrote to the hospital’s trustee board committee in his final plea, “keeping my lamps trimmed and bright for a bride that never came.” He was finally named to the attending staff in 1963 and remained a senior attending physician for the rest of his medical career.
In the 1950s, Berry chaired a Chicago commission that worked to make hospitals more inclusive for black physicians and to increase facilities in underserved parts of the city. But his dedication to equity reached far beyond the clinical setting: He was active in a civil rights group called the United Front that provided protection, monetary support, and other assistance to black residents of Cairo, Illinois, who had been victims of racist attacks. In 1970, he helped organize the Flying Black Medics, a group of practitioners who flew from Chicago to Cairo to bring medical care and health education to members of the remote community.

Regina Marcia Benjamin, MD, MBA, may be best known for her tenure as the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, during which she served as first chair of the National Prevention Council. The group of 17 federal agencies was responsible for developing the National Prevention Strategy, which outlined plans to improve health and well-being in the United States.
But it’s not just her work at the highest levels of public health that earned her praise. Long before she was appointed “the nation’s doctor” in 2009, Benjamin worked extensively with rural communities in the South. She is the founder and CEO of BayouClinic in Bayou La Batre, Louisiana, which provides clinical care, social services, and health education to residents of the small Gulf Coast town. Benjamin helped rebuild the clinic several more times, including after damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and a fire in 2006. Of the clinic, she said she hopes that she is “making a difference in my community by providing a clinic where patients can come and receive health care with dignity.”

Marilyn Hughes Gaston, MD (b. 1939)
In a pivotal experience while working as an intern at Philadelphia General Hospital in 1964, Marilyn Hughes Gaston, MD, admitted a baby with a swollen, infected hand. The baby suffered from sickle cell disease, which hadn’t occurred to Gaston until her supervisor suggested the possibility. Gaston quickly committed herself to learning more about it, and eventually became a leading researcher on the disease, which affects millions of people around the world. She became deputy branch chief of the Sickle Cell Disease Branch at the National Institutes of Health, and her groundbreaking 1986 study led to a national sickle cell disease screening program for newborns. Her research showed both the benefits of screening for sickle cell disease at birth and the effectiveness of penicillin to prevent infection from sepsis, which can be fatal in children with the disease.
In 1990, Gaston became the first black female physician to be appointed director of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care. She was also the second black woman to serve as assistant surgeon general as well as achieve the rank of rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service. Gaston has been honored with every award that the Public Health Service bestows.

Louis Wade Sullivan, MD, grew up in the racially segregated rural South in the 1930s. There, he was inspired by his doctor, Joseph Griffin. “He was the only black physician in a radius of 100 miles,” Sullivan said. “I saw that Dr. Griffin was really doing something important and he was highly respected in the community.”
Over the decades, Sullivan became an equally profound source of inspiration. The only black student in his class at Boston University School of Medicine, he would later serve on the faculty from 1966 to 1975. In 1975, he became the founding dean of what became the Morehouse School of Medicine — the first predominantly black medical school opened in the United States in the 20th century. Later, Sullivan was tapped to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he directed the creation of the Office of Minority Programs in the National Institutes of Health’s Office of the Director.
Sullivan has chaired numerous influential groups and institutions, from the President’s Advisory Council on Historically Black Colleges and Universities to the National Health Museum. He is CEO and chair of the Sullivan Alliance, an organization he created in 2005 to increase racial and ethnic minority representation in health care

The Flying Black Medics, created by Leonidas Harris Berry, MD, return from providing medical care and education to Cairo, Illinois, residents in 1970.

They fought slavery, prejudice, and injustice — and changed the face of medicine in America. They invented modern blood-banking, served in the highest ranks of the U.S. government, and much more. In honor of Black History Month, read the inspiring stories of 10 pioneering black physicians.

We celebrated ❤️ Valentine’s Day ❤️ with so many sweet friends at North Cobb Senior Center today!

Susie King Taylor (1848-1912)

Born into slavery in Georgia, Susie King Taylor learned to read and write as a young girl though it was prohibited for her to do so. When the Civil War broke out, King escaped with her family to the Union-controlled St. Catherine Island and soon relocated to St. Simons Island where she opened a school for African American children and adults. There she married Sergeant Edward King of the Union 33rd U.S. Colored Infantry and traveled with the regiment nursing injured and sick soldiers. Taylor later wrote a book, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, about her life and her experiences as an African American nurse during the Civil War.

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Adah Belle Samuels Thoms (c. 1870-1943)

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms graduated from the Lincoln School for Nursing in New York in 1905 and began working at Lincoln Hospital full time as the head nurse on the surgical ward. In 1906, she was named assistant superintendent of nurses. Though she was in effect the acting director until her retirement in 1924, Thoms was not given the title because of her race. In response to the racism faced by nurses of color, Thoms helped organize the National Association for Colored Graduate Nurses and served as the organization’s president from 1916 to 1923. During WWI, Thoms also successfully campaigned to have black nurses admitted into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. In 1929, Thomas published Pathfinders: A History of the Progress of Colored Graduate Nurses, the first book to chronicle the experiences of black nurses in America.

Hazel Johnson-Brown (1927-2011)

Hazel Johnson-Brown decided as a child she wanted to become a nurse but when she applied as a young adult to the West Chester School of Nursing, she was rejected because of her race. Undeterred, Johnson-Brown went to the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing to obtain her nursing degree. After graduating she worked at the Philadelphia Veteran’s Hospital where colleagues, noticing her leadership abilities, suggested she join the U.S. Army. Johnson-Brown enlisted in 1955, just seven years after President Truman banned segregation in the armed services, and rose through the ranks. In 1979, she became both the African American woman promoted to brigadier general and the first to command the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. After retiring from the Army, Johnson-Brown headed the American Nurses Association’s government relations unit and directed George Mason University’s Center for Health Policy.

Lawrence C. Washington’s health career in the U.S. Army began in 1954 as a medical aidman with the rank of private. In 1967, he became the first male, black or white, to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. By the end of his military career, Washington achieved several other firsts including becoming the first male Army Nurse Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of colonel and the first black male nurse to be selected, attend and receive certification for residency education at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. After leaving military service, Washington continued his commitment to the nursing field through teaching at several universities.