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Welcome The Adams Chair of Excellence in Health Care Services was established by the late Dr. Carl Adams and Mrs. Jenny Mae Adams. The Center for Health and Human Services supports the work of the Chair. The Adams' understood that the delivery of health care and human services poses complex challenges. Throughout their extensive careers providing health care to Middle Tennessee residents, they knew that these challenges might begin with the individual but could impact public policy as well as the social structure of the entire community. Dr. Adams’ concern for the quality and quantity of health care professionals to address these concerns led him to establish the Adams Chair of Excellence in Health Care Services, intended to provide a platform for MTSU to engage an interdisciplinary group of scholars, in partnership with the community, to forge solutions to current health care concerns. The initiating Advisory Group for the Chair laid the foundation for this interdisciplinary approach, and the Center for Health and Human Services was developed as the office to support the activities of the Chair.
Martha Jo Edwards, Ed.D. was selected as the first Adams Chair of
Excellence in 1992 and she continues to serve in this capacity. The
Tennessee Board of Regents formally approved the Center for Health and
Human Services in 1993. Dr. Edwards has focused on developing
partnerships both internal and external to the University. The Center
collaborates with MTSU faculty, public agencies, and private
not-for-profit organizations to develop and implement programs designed
to improve the health of the middle and greater Tennessee community.
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