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BRISTOL, Tenn. (Bristol Herald Courier) — Healing Hands Health has been awarded a $90,000 grant from the Virginia Health Care Foundation. The award will support the salary and benefits of a full-time dental hygienist for one year and enable Healing Hands Health to expand dental hygiene services, according to a written statement.

BRISTOL, Tenn. (WCYB) — Healing Hands Health will be hosting a free health fair on Thursday and Friday in Bristol, Tennessee. Helen Scott, executive director of Healing Hands Health, spoke with News 5 explaining why people should get attend these events and get looked at.

BRISTOL, Tenn. (Bristol Herald Courier) — Healing Hands Health Center has named Dr. Kelsey Lloyd to serve as interim Medical Director. Dr. Lloyd has a medical degree from East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine and completed her residency in their family medicine program, according to a written statement.

BRISTOL, Va. (WCYB) — A clinic in Bristol, Virginia, that helps the uninsured and underinsured is expanding. Healing Hands Health Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday, celebrating its recently completed dental expansion.

BRISTOL, Tenn. (WCYB) — On Wednesday and Thursday, Healing Hands is hosting their yearly free health fair featuring students from ETSU. This health fair is offered to anyone, allowing the opportunity to get free health screenings.

BRISTOL, Tenn. (WCYB) — Healing Hands Health Center is expanding thanks to a large donation. On Wednesday, a check for $400,000 was presented to the Healing Hands Health Center in Bristol, Tennessee. Construction began Monday on the clinic's new expansion. The project will increase the number of dental operatories from 9 to 13, add a second sterilization room, 2 offices, and a second x-ray room.

BRISTOL, Tenn. (Bristol Herald Courier) — Local community leaders, politicians, doctors, and volunteers gathered at the Healing Hands Health Center to celebrate 25 years of providing medical care to low income, uninsured Bristol residents.

BRISTOL, Tenn. (Kingsport Times News) — Healing Hands Health Center has served thousands of uninsured patients throughout the region over the past 24 years. Now, the Bristol, Tennessee, nonprofit will continue its mission with a new education center and student dormitory.

Bristol, TN (Parade.com) — Twenty years ago, Beth Flannagan and the mission committee of First Presbyterian Church in Bristol, Tennessee, set out to make their community a healthier place. The group saw a need to provide health care for people who were working but uninsured or couldn't afford a doctor, and that's exactly what they've done for the past two decades with the Healing Hands Health Center.