An event aimed at improving health care and expanding Medicaid in Mississippi is making its way to Jackson Thursday.
Together for Hope, a nonprofit working with the poorest counties in America, teamed up with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network in Alabama and Mississippi this year to host “Better Health Summits” throughout the two states — two of only 10 states that have not expanded Medicaid. “Health is one of our priorities of hope,” said Dr. Debbie Pierce, assistant to Together for Hope’s president. In Mississippi, the organizations have hosted summits over the past six weeks in Aberdeen, Meridian and Cleveland, targeting community leaders, health care workers, social workers and anyone interested in health care in Mississippi “and how together we can work to make a change,” Pierce said.