Media & Events

"A county health check-up: Service, funding cuts challenge providers" by Oscar Clevenger

Sullivan County is facing severe strain on its health-care system, as Garnet Health hospitals enact cuts and EMS services struggle with long response times in rural areas amid reduced federal funding. In response, a community-led effort, the Highland Health Access Initiative, is deploying local “health champions,” telemedicine, AI tools, and a revamped EMS “fly-car” system to rebuild care from the ground up.

"Health hub heads to Highland" by Liam Mayo (October 17, 2025)

The town of Highland looks set to become a regional hub for community healthcare access, as local leaders prepare to open the doors on a new community health hub. Called the Highland Health Initiative, the project will restore the former offices of Dr. Richard Daboul for use as a community health hub.

"The doctor is in: New community health model proposed in Highland" by Isabel Braverman (October 17, 2025)

When Chris Dickey saw gaps in Sullivan County’s healthcare system, he thought that someone should fix it. And then he thought, why not me? As a public health professional, he worked to create clinics in rural areas of India and Africa, seeing firsthand the unique challenges that rural communities face, and saw that it wasn’t all that different from home.