The Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation – a public advocacy board entrusted with disbursing public assets flowing from Clarksville Volunteer Health Inc. – approved almost $469,000 in grants this week, including $127,800 for the organization’s first-ever Fort Campbell grant recipient. Clarksville Volunteer Health is the 20 percent minority joint-venture partner in Gateway Medical Center, and… Read More…»
CA students come up with creative fitness ideas CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — The Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation – a public advocacy board entrusted with disbursing public assets flowing from Clarksville Volunteer Health Inc. – approved almost $792,000 in grants Wednesday, including $118,530 for a proposal conceived by a group of Clarksville Academy students to institute a… Read More…»
Source: Clarksville Now ClarksvilleNow.com Reporting news@clarksvillenow.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a new survey conducted by Gallup, the city of Clarksville, TN ranks number eight on the top 10 most obese communities in the U.S. Gallup and Healthways surveyed 189 metro areas around the country, and the obesity rate was above 15 percent for all but… Read More…»
Source: Philanthropy News Digest While Americans overall are living longer and healthier lives, large gaps remain between the healthiest and least healthy counties, a study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute finds. Now in its fifth edition, the 2014 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps ranked counties by… Read More…»