A Wild and Wonderful West Virginia Collaboration

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Webinar description:
The session will explore unusual and unique alliances created through Wild, Wonderful and Healthy Logan County to effectively collaborate within a rural community to address health inequities and focus resources on a common goal, thereby avoiding duplication of efforts. Work within the collaborative partnership involved using data on the community’s needs and impact of social determinants of health on health inequities in Logan County.  We use community-based research to create effective and sustainable interventions to address social determinants of health in our communities.  Wild, Wonderful and Healthy Logan County has also improved the recruitment of rural health care providers by steeping health care students in long term immersive research, strategic planning, and problem solving alongside rural community members.

About the Presenter:
Kristin Dial, CEO, Coalfield Health Center
Kristin Dial is the Executive Director of a Federally Qualified Health Center Look-alike in Southern West Virginia. Mrs. Dial is a 2002 graduate of Marshall University with a Bachelor of Science, 2005 graduate of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College with an Associate of Nursing degree, and a 2007 graduate of Marshall University with a Master’s in Health Care Administration. Mrs. Dial is an active board member of the West Virginia Rural Health Association, the Logan County Chamber of Commerce and the Logan Healthcare Foundation. In addition, she is a member of the WV Primary Care Association and Partner’s In Health Network. Kristin is a founding member of Wild Wonderful and Healthy Logan County which is a collaborative effort among Logan County entities from a variety of sectors working to develop and implement a community health improvement plan to improve the health of Logan County residents and create a healthy workforce, leading to increases economic development in rural communities throughout Logan County.