{"id":21550,"date":"2015-11-08T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2015-11-08T05:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T11:05:43","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-names-nursing-floor-after-clarksville-montgomery-county-community-health-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/11\/08\/austin-peay-state-university-names-nursing-floor-after-clarksville-montgomery-county-community-health-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University names nursing floor after Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – A few years ago, Kristin Meeks was worried about her future. The Austin Peay State University student worked two jobs to help pay for school, but she\u2019d need more free time if she wanted to enroll in APSU\u2019s prestigious School of Nursing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNursing is my calling because I\u2019ve always been drawn to science and to helping people,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the program is really demanding, so you don\u2019t have a lot of extra time to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"APSU<\/a>

APSU officially names nursing floor of the McCord Building after Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\n

This May, Meeks will graduate from APSU with her nursing degree, and she credits the Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation with helping make that happen.<\/p>\n

In the last six years, that organization had donated $1.6 million to the University\u2019s School of Nursing, providing numerous resources and scholarships for deserving students like Meeks.<\/p>\n

On Thursday afternoon, APSU President Alisa White officially thanked the foundation for its support by naming the third floor of the McCord Building, which houses the APSU School of Nursing, the Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation Nursing Floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe foundation decided that Austin Peay was worth investing in,\u201d White said. \u201cWhat you do to support our University is absolutely huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the years, the foundation has funded generous scholarships for undergraduate and graduate nursing students, with the stipulation that they stay in the region to work after they graduate.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students are out there, providing care to our region, to our community, andit\u2019s exciting to know they\u2019re out there because you help get them there,\u201d Dr. Grace Moodt, interim chair of the APSU School of Nursing, said.<\/p>\n

The foundation\u2019s grants also allow APSU nursing faculty and students to staff the Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center on Dover Road. Over the last year, that clinic has provided help to thousands of low-income and uninsured patients suffering from complications with diabetes. Joey Smith, foundation board member and Montgomery County Public Health director, said the foundation invests in APSU to improve the health of all local citizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that access to care is an issue in our community,\u201d he said. \u201cKnowing that we can help folks get access to care, prevent complications from disease and keep them out of the ER, is a major thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

[320left]During Thursday\u2019s ceremony, a new sign was unveiled, designating the floor as the Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation Nursing Floor. For Meeks, the name will serve as a reminder of the assistance she\u2019s received during her time as a nursing student.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just brings more of the realization of what is supplied to me and the other students in the program,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Several nursing professors and students attended the ceremony to personally thank foundation members for their support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to hear that people are impacted by the money the foundation is providing them,\u201d Priscilla Story, a foundation board member, said. \u201cThe students, they\u2019re getting real-life experience. They leave here ready to work because of the funding and experience they\u2019re getting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – A few years ago, Kristin Meeks was worried about her future. The Austin Peay State University student worked two jobs to help pay for school, but she\u2019d need more free time if she wanted to enroll in APSU\u2019s prestigious School of Nursing. \u201cNursing is my calling because I\u2019ve always been drawn to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[22711,23,10982,4058,262,825,27067,1114,6939,17559,14789,27066,389,12044],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5BA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21551,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions\/21551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}