Williamson, WV Selected as Finalist for Health Grant

One Mingo County town is one step closer to $25,000 dollars thanks to their culture of health.

Williamson, WV was chosen Thursday as a finalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s second annual RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize. Williamson, WV was selected along with eleven other communities from across the nation for their health improvement efforts and will now be considered for the prize, which will be announced June 2014.

The Prize was launched to further the work of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The program provides data, tools and potential solutions to help policy-makers and the public improve the many factors that influence health in their community.