Community Stories Health improvement efforts from around the country 4 Stories Filtered by Access to Care, Air and Water Quality, Community Safety, Employment, Tobacco Use, Health Care, and Policy Connecting the Dots in Fulton County, GA: Working Together to Save Lives May 10, 2013 According to the 2013 County Health Rankings, Fulton County, Georgia ranks 29 out of 156 on overall health, yet 55,000 adults and 25,000 children... Read more Never Giving Up: Addressing Drug Addiction in Scott County, Indiana September 4, 2012 What would you do if the county you’d lived in and loved for many decades was ranked the least healthy county in your state... Read more Fostering a Culture of Health and Wellness in Hernando, Miss. April 3, 2012 The 2011 County Health Rankings classified Desoto County as the healthiest county in Mississippi for health outcomes and the fifth-healthiest county for health factors... Read more Rockingham County, North Carolina Establishes Task Force to Identify the Root Causes of Its Poor Health Rankings, Develops Recommendations July 11, 2011 Rockingham County, dubbed as North Carolina’s North Star, is nestled at the tip of the Northern Piedmont Triad region and cradled by the foothills... Read more
Connecting the Dots in Fulton County, GA: Working Together to Save Lives May 10, 2013 According to the 2013 County Health Rankings, Fulton County, Georgia ranks 29 out of 156 on overall health, yet 55,000 adults and 25,000 children... Read more
Never Giving Up: Addressing Drug Addiction in Scott County, Indiana September 4, 2012 What would you do if the county you’d lived in and loved for many decades was ranked the least healthy county in your state... Read more
Fostering a Culture of Health and Wellness in Hernando, Miss. April 3, 2012 The 2011 County Health Rankings classified Desoto County as the healthiest county in Mississippi for health outcomes and the fifth-healthiest county for health factors... Read more
Rockingham County, North Carolina Establishes Task Force to Identify the Root Causes of Its Poor Health Rankings, Develops Recommendations July 11, 2011 Rockingham County, dubbed as North Carolina’s North Star, is nestled at the tip of the Northern Piedmont Triad region and cradled by the foothills... Read more