By Richard Harris
Living in a small town in a rural area has many benefits. Access to healthcare isn't one of them. If you're elderly or without transportation, getting medical care can be even more difficult.
A new business - Community Care Mobile Clinic - hopes to help ease those difficulties by bringing back old school "house calls".
Deborah Tymes Rhodes, DNP, FNP-BC (Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner) started the business earlier this year. She and her office manager, Edna Moses, are Americus residents, but they are both natives of Buena Vista and have many family members and friends in the area.
"We know there are people who need this service," said Rhodes. "We've seen some patients who haven't been to the doctor in two years. We've seen people whose...
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