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CCMS presents the Rising Star Award
Dr. Hochman, President of CCMS, presented the Rising Star Award to Meeting Street at Burns Elementary on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at the Wellness Achievement Ceremony.
CCMS Docs Adopt ~ Rising Star Award
The CCMS School Health Committee works with MUSC Children’s Hospital Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness to promote wellness. Many Charleston County Schools participate in the Docs Adopt School Health Initiative© and have a doctor serve on [...]
Better student health can help reduce education shortcomings
Congratulations to our CCMS member, Janice D. Key and the medical director for DHEC, Katherine J. Richardson's piece in Post & Courier. It’s such a positive story about CCMS’s efforts, and suggest an important, enduring [...]
CCMS Docs Adopt Initiative Wins National Award
MUSC’s Dr. Janice Key, right, of the Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness, receives the Wellness Frontiers Award from Debbie Witchey, executive vice president of the Healthcare Leadership Council, Feb. 18 Click to Read the Story [...]
A Game of Healing – Youth Movement in Charleston Schools
Dave Spurlock, director of physical education and health for the Charleston County School District demonstrates a balancing ladder in a 'Brain Room' at Stiles Point Elementary. 'You could say it’s chaos,' Spurlock said, 'but there’s [...]
Gun Violence – A Public Health Issue
Editorial Posted in the Post and Courier on November 8, 2015 Gun violence is a serious and growing public health issue in the United States of America. The current problem nationally: Every day in the [...]