Former Blue Ridge Medical Center COO Debbie Williams watched as Rick Shinn unveiled a plaque to the right of the entrance to the center’s new Appomattox location.
“Debbie Williams Medical Building at Blue Ridge Medical Center,” it reads.
Shinn is current CEO of BRMC, an Arrington-based nonprofit community health center with locations that now include Appomattox. He and BRMC staff and leadership, local officials and state representatives gathered Monday morning for a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the new location.
BRMC Appomattox offers primary care and behavioral health services and, like the Colleen and Amherst centers, provides health care to insured, uninsured, Medicare- and Medicaid-serving patients.
“We know that there are several thousand people in the community who may not have access to health care, whether they’re insured or uninsured or on Medicaid, and we want to be an alternative for them to be able to get services …