Prevention and awareness are key essentials in maintaining our physical bodies. Many resources may be found here including: statistics, demographics, and basic health regulations to assist you in a lifelong journey of whole health focusing on the first component of wholeness, the body. The health and faith resources found on this site combined can bring balance between our body, soul (mind, will and emotions) and spirit. Learn more about the continuum of care in whole health while increasing your faith, utilizing wisdom, and bringing wholeness to your overall being, body, soul and spirit.
Use this guide to discover the most common causes of the most commonsymptomsfor your illnesses...
Wondering how you can be more health conscious and are unsure where to start? You can check the National Health Observances calendar and see how you and your congregation celebrate health and honor those you love by making them aware of resources and agencies that provide support and materials to help you succeed!
Ms. Barrigan is the Executive Director of the Virginia Telehealth Network (VTN), helping to launch the statewide organization in 2007. Within its first year of operation, Ms. Barrigan has lead a statewide initiative known as VAST (Virginia Acute Stroke Telehealth Network), which is focused on reducing the time-to-care for stroke patients in rural communities.
Throughout her nearly 20-year career, Ms Barrigan has been a passionate and high-impact contributor and leader, bringing about innovative solutions for leveraging health information technology (HIT) to the benefit of underserved and remote populations in the private, public and federal health care sectors.
As a telehealth pioneer, she has designed and implemented successful telehealth programs with all Department of Defense services, the Veterans’ Administration and Indian Health Services covering many clinical specialties.
She is a registered nurse, specializing in emergency and critical care services and a former Captain in the US Army Nurse Corps. She also served as a Congressional staffer covering federal health care, including telehealth/telemedicine and related telecommunications legislation, in the US House of Representatives.
Ms. Barrigan received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Florida, and is an honor graduate from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health with special studies in international health and humanitarian and health information systems. She is an active member of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), the American Public Health Association and the American Medical Informatics Association.
Faith, hope, and love coupled with wisdom assists the believer in achieving health harmony in the soul (mind, will, and emotions) and spirit. Strengthen your inner man's soul and spirit by the associated articles, resources, and inspiration in our faith section. May the Lord prosper you with whole health. Learn more about the continuum of care in whole health while increasing your faith, utilizing wisdom, and bringing wholeness to your overall being, body,soul and spirit.
We welcome collaboration with any professional health care agencies, as well as, church leaders. Also, if you are interested in linking, contributing or assisting Congregational Health ReSource with content, please contact us.
