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CHAPEL HILL (July 16, 2021) – So very many factors influence wellness – and Dr. Sharon Elliott-Bynum embraced them all.

In the accompanying video, Dr. Cheryl Giscombe, a Professor in the School of Nursing at UNC Chapel Hill, describes the community health center Elliott-Bynum built – and built and built and built – until she became known as ‘The Mother Teresa of Durham.’

The effort started in 1996 when Elliott-Bynum and her two sisters opened the center in Durham to help reduce stigma for patients with HIV.

But then Elliott-Bynum added a 16-week substance-abuse treatment center. Then job training. Then a GED program.

“This is a nurse,” Giscombe says.

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“But (she) saw all of this as wellness.”

Then came a case-management program for HIV patients. But the center was in fact a community health center for everyone. So Elliott-Bynum added Zumba and line-dancing classes, acupuncture, yoga and massage for anyone who wanted to take part.

“Which was brilliant, because when people