The Health Wagon
The Health Wagon also known as St. Mary's Health Wagon, is a nonprofit organization that has been providing free healthcare services to residents of the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia since 1980. The organization was founded by Sister Bernadette “Bernie” Kenny of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, who initially delivered healthcare services to residents from her Volkswagen Beetle. The Health Wagon began as a small operation and has since grown to provide primary, specialty, dental, and vision care to the medically underserved in poverty-stricken areas of rural Appalachia. The organization operates three mobile units and two stationary clinics that service Virginia's Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Lee, Scott, and Wise counties (and the city of Norton) and visits 13 sites in Southwest Virginia. Over the years, the Health Wagon has received national and international recognition and has been featured in media outlets such as 60 Minutes, CBS Nightly News, Inside Edition, ...
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The Health Wagon Mobile Unit
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ...
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