CONWAY — White Mountain Community Health Center will be celebrating National Health Center Week from Monday, Aug. 4, through Saturday, Aug. 10, with a series of events and a lettuce seed giveaway to highlight community health centers’ success in addressing the root factors that cause chronic illness.
National Health Center Week is part of a national campaign to increase awareness of the ways health centers are providing affordable health care in communities.
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