Nominator Elizabeth Pringle, Director of Awakened Leadership, UPIC Health says that Mary Tucker, through her company UPIC Health, was already helping thousands of people by providing patient care engagement services (www.upichealth.com). When COVID-19, and the resulting quarantine, paralyzed social, economic, and cultural networks in America, thousands of people soon fell into unemployment, depression, addictions, domestic abuse, etc… Mary immediately recognized the gap between the desperate need for care and availability of affordable and appropriate care. Mary stepped into the gap by quickly launching My Care Village, a free health coaching telehealth service. (https://upichealth.com/telehealth). She hired certified health coaches, added recovery training for them, then trained them on Mend (a telehealth platform) and NowPow (a personalized community referral platform). The results? A quote from one client: “I came out one of my deepest depression and hardest time of my life (losing my business, my jobs, and all my income) I would not able to without this program. Thank You.”
