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November 2008 Health and Medicine Exhibit Makes Appearance at National Conference Kim Price, director of women's and children's services for Centra Health, brought the Legacy Museum before a national audience in Salt Lake City, October 15-17, in a poster presentation on the Career Center at Virginia Baptist Hospital. A significant portion of Legacy's inaugural exhibit, "Herbs to Lasers, Cholera to Aids: African American Medicine and Health, 1800-2000," was installed in the VBH Career Center last March. The exhibit features local African American doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, and dental hygienists of the Jim Crow era. The conference poster presented several images from the Career Center exhibit, including the shingle of Dr. Clarissa Wimbush, the first African American woman dentist in Virginia, and an anatomical model of a skull donated by Dr. J. Sinclair Trimiar, who grew up in Lynchburg and practiced medicine in New York City. The poster, which described the Career Center's approach to promoting careers in the health professions to school-age visitors, was viewed by attendees at the Salt Lake City Magnet Conference. Centra Health achieved "Magnet" status, awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, in 2004. The VBH Career Center, located on the third floor of the hospital (the main floor of the original Virginia Baptist Hospital building), is open Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Access is easiest from the old Rivermont Avenue entrance; from that point, the Career Center is straight ahead. If you missed Legacy's first exhibit, or if you would enjoy seeing it again, take a look. The exhibit will be at VBH through the end of February, 2009. For a virtual tour, go to www.centrahealth.com, and click on Magnet Nursing, then Healthcare Career Center, then Legacy Museum Exhibit. `
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