Deborah Cross with Patient

National Health Center Week celebrates the ways health centers address environmental and social factors as an integral part of primary care. Nurse Practitioner Deborah Cross (right) exemplifies this ethos. (ANNE SKIDMORE PHOTO)

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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