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            Mattie Burton, director of Nursing at Shawnee State University, has been honored with the Molina Healthcare Community Champions Award in a special ceremony in Columbus on Wednesday, Sept. 9. She was nominated by SSU President Rita Rice Morris.
            Burton has been actively involved in numerous projects. She is the board chair of the People’s Clinic in Morehead, Ky. She applied for a grant with the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and received $325,000 for the clinic.
            “I am really proud of the clinic,” she said. “It serves so many people.”
            Burton is the outreach coordinator for Neighbor to Neighbor Ministries in Portsmouth and works with Big Sandy Superstore Working Well program in Franklin Furnace, Ohio.
            She had a dream to get a Mobile Health Unit that would serve the Scioto County community with health screenings and health education and she got it. The unit allows nursing students to provide services for the underserved.
            In her nomination statement for the award, Morris said: “Mattie Burton champions the importance of continuing health care education and professional development opportunities every day as director of Nursing at Shawnee State University. … A master facilitator with an eye on the health needs of the region, Mattie makes things happen.”

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Mattie Burton, director of Nursing at Shawnee State University, was awarded the Molina Healthcare Community Champions Award in Columbus at a special ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Burton was nominated by SSU President Rita Rice Morris at Shawnee State who described Burton as a “master facilitator with an eye on the health needs of the region, Mattie makes things happen.” In the photo, Burton holds a special bowl presented to her at the awards ceremony that was designed for her through a youth program.