Our Health Literacy Book Nooks & Needs Assessment project, developed in partnership with Dr. Laura Porter at Cherokee Health Systems, explores healthcare providers’ and staff members’ perceptions of patient health literacy needs across East Tennessee. As part of this initiative, we created Book Nooks in every clinic location, providing a steady rotation of books each month on a variety of health literacy topics identified by Dr. Porter.
I was honored to attend the CampusCOMPACT25 conference as a representative of the partnership between the University of Tennessee (UT) and Cherokee Health Systems (CHS). It has been my pleasure to collaborate with UT’s Drs. Julie Owens and Kerri Martin on the Health Literacy Book Nooks & Needs Assessment project.
The fourth annual eVOLve conference was a success, reaching the maximum number of attendees for both in-person and virtual. The 2025 theme of “Meeting Community Needs” weaved throughout the day with the keynote speaker and breakout sessions. The conference boasted 387 in-person attendees and over 600 virtual participants, hailing from 27 different states, including Hawaii.
In this brief video, three students from the Project Excellence initiative at Austin East High School receive a full-tuition scholarship to attend The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The students received the scholarship after dcompleting curriculum for the community engaged initiative, Project Excellence.
