Enjoy a Healthy Community Choices "Walk and Talk" event featuring presentations, a panel discussion, Q&A, complimentary refreshments, and a tour of the Memorial Regional Medical Center campus and surrounding areas.

OPENING REMARKS:

• Jason Smith, Healthy Communities Liaison, Bon Secours Virginia, welcome
  
• The Honorable Deborah B. Winans, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and Mechanicsville District Representative, on the importance of community planning

PRESENTERS:

• Trip Pollard, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center, on regional context and overview of series and health impact of community design
  
• Dougal Hewitt, Senior Vice President for Mission, Bon Secours Virginia, on Bon Secours charrette processes and committment to healthy hospitals and communities
• David Maloney, Acting Planning Director, Hanover County Planning Department, on the role of the County;

PANEL PARTICIPANTS:

• Tommy Thompson, Village of Mechanicsville Association, on the community's efforts to improve walkability and connectivity in Mechanicsville;
  
• Pattie Bland, Chair, Coalition for Hanover's Future, on the role of the citizen in planning processes;
  
• Laura Lafayette, Richmond Association of REALTORS, on market trends and the importance of reinvesting in our suburban communities.
  

 
ADDITIONAL TOUR PARTICIPANTS:

• Will Snyder, Tricycle Gardens, on the Healing Garden;
  
• Scott Clark, GRTC Transit System, on GRTC Transit System's role;
  
• Joe Vidunas, Department of Public Works, Hanover County, on the  processes to finance improvement projects.
  

ABOUT BON SECOURS' MRMC CAMPUS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA:

Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 70-acre medical campus in Mechanicsville, is preparing for its next community charrette, part of its collaborative, community-based planning and design process to improve its campus.This method for community planning is being used to increase social integration, community benefit, environmental responsibility, and economic sustainability,and the process will uniquely address its suburban context.  The planning process will look at campus design, as well as give attention to concerns voiced in the community about access to public spaces, bicycle and pedestrian safety, public transport, affordable housing, land use, and other environmental and sustainability concerns that impact community health. 

ABOUT THE HEALTHY COMMUNITY CHOICES SERIES:

• April 21st: Urban Walk & Talk at Richmond's Lincoln Mews, an affordable, renovated, green-building neighborhood, in partnership with the James River Green Building Council and hosted by Better Housing Coalition;
  
• May 19th: Rural Walk & Talk at Bandana Farm, a beef cattle farm under conservation easement in Hanover, in partnership with Capital Region Land Conservancy and in collaboration with Coalition for Hanover's Future;
  
• October 16th: 4th Annual River City Saunter, featuring a bus tour, Healthy Community Choices Symposium, and the release of a report written by Trip Pollard of the Southern Environmental Law Center.
  

The Series is made possible in part by Robins Foundation
and other community partners.

Parking and entrance instructions: Enter off of the Atlee Road entrance to MOB1 near Rainbow Station Child Care Center.  You will see a sign that reads "Hanover Medical Park: Our Field of Dreams."  A PSG volunteer will be directing you to the correct entrance.  The presentations take place in the Community Education Room, which is on the first floor across from the Heart and Vascular Institute.

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS:

Please contact Coco Provance at coco@psgrichmond.org or 804-644-4774 for special needs, questions, or other requests.