The Laurens County Health Care Foundation held a media luncheon today to formally present a $20,000 check to the P.C. School of Pharmacy. They are to use the money in their Pharmacy Diabetes Education Program and Clinic, which serves local residents who are referred to the program by their Doctor.
Doug Wallace, Chairman of the Laurens County Health Care Foundation’s Board of Directors, said the money was raised with their 2nd annual participation in the “Over the Edge” fund raising program. Wallace mentioned other programs the Foundation has supported this year, including $55,000 for an Ultra-Sound machine for the GHS Laurens County Memorial Hospital and $10,000 donations to the Laurens County Cancer Association, the Laurens Y Walking Track and to the Good Sheppard Free Medical Clinic. With total donations of $105,000, Doug Wallace called this a record year for the foundation. “In this 12 months, certainly from the time I’ve been on the board and as far back as I can think from the notes I have, this is one of our record years of giving.”
PC Pharmacy School Dean Cliff Fuhrman said the School’s Diabetes Education Program and Clinic provides a place for the school’s 300 pharmacy students to learn skills of interacting with patients and also is another way the pharmacy school lives the PC motto, “While we live, we serve.”
Fuhrman said that Diabetes is a major health care issue. “It’s not something you cure. So you have to learn to live with it. You have to learn to make the right decisions. You have to learn the educational part of it, other than just taking the medication. And what we do in this clinic is provide that education. I think this funding will allow our clinic to see more patients, provide more services to maybe go out over and above what we have done in the past.”
