Connecting Patients to Community and Care in Small-Town South Carolina
Tracie Mason has lived in Spartanburg, South Carolina all her life. Despite a recent uptick in growth and development, Spartanburg maintains its close-knit sense of community and rural atmosphere. It is one of the things Mason loves most about Spartanburg, which was named one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2015 Culture of Health communities. At 14, Mason became pregnant with her first child. After struggling to maintain a job, attend school, and care for her daughter all at once,...