DIOCESAN NEWS
09/18/09
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Sister Anne Brooks receives grant
for on-going work in Mississippi Delta
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sister Anne Brooks, the founder and director of the Tutwiler Medical Clinic in Tutwiler, Miss., was named one of four runners-up
to the J.H. Kanter Prize, given to front-line physicians who have dedicated themselves to optimizing U.S. health care for all patients, regardless of gender, ethnicity, geography, language, education, religion, employment or insurance.
The inaugural prize, named for Joseph H. Kanter, a pioneering advocate for electronic medical records, is sponsored by the Health Legacy Partnership (HELP), www.healthlegacy.org, a public private partnership with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ.)
Dr. James O’Connell of Boston was selected J.H. Kanter Prize Laureate and awarded $100,000 for his exceptional work to enhance health care delivery for hundreds of low income and homeless people.
Sister Brooks and the three other runners-up each received prizes in the amount of $25,000: Jeffrey Henderson, M.D. of South Dakota; Neil Calman, M.D. of New York; Herbert Smitherman Jr., M.D. of Michigan.
Sister Brooks started medical training at age 43 and currently provides multi-disciplinary care to some of the nation’s most impoverished and medically underserved, offering not just primary health attention but education and resource assessment.
She challenges entrenched civic, political and health care entities in the Mississippi Delta region to recognize and address the cumulative effects of social disadvantages on critical health needs. She has been known to accept payment from patients in bushels of squash.
Sister Brooks was nominated by the Mississippi Osteopathic Medical Association.
Sister Brooks is a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.
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