U.S. Representative Terri Sewell, D-Alabama, discussed threats to rural healthcare access in Alabama during a Thursday livestream event.

Sewell was joined for the event entitled “Terri Talks: Rural Healthcare in Crisis” by Rural Health Medical Program Inc. CEO Keshee Dozier-Smith.

RHMPI is part of a nationwide network of Federally Qualified Health Centers established beginning in the late 60s during President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.

The organization, based in Selma, established its first community health center in Uniontown, Alabama, in 1977, located within the city’s public housing authority.

RHMPI has since opened community health center locations throughout the Black Belt, including a mobile health unit and sites in Dallas County, Demopolis, Marion, Monroeville, Pine App

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