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Residents and nurses urge Greene County to back UVA mobile primary care unit to address provider shortage
Summary
Speakers at the Greene County Board of Supervisors meeting asked the board to endorse a University of Virginia mobile primary care unit, citing a local shortage of primary care providers (county ratio 1:5,031 versus the state 1:1,326) and saying the mobile unit would expand screenings and chronic‑care access.
Linda Copeland, speaking for the Green Health Care Collaborative, asked the Greene County Board of Supervisors to provide a letter of support to bring the University of Virginia’s mobile primary care unit to Greene County. “Greene is the forgotten county for health care,” Copeland said, and she cited a county primary care provider ratio of 1 to 5,031 people compared with the state ratio of 1 to 1,326.
Tina Merrill, an oncology nurse…
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