West Bloomfield Resident Earns Community Champion Award

Elliott Attisha, DO, FAAP, a physician and community volunteer from West Bloomfield, has been named among six Molina Healthcare of Michigan community heroes.

He was honored during the seventh annual Community Champions Awards ceremony, held at The Rattlesnake Club in Detroit. The event included an invocation by Pastor Marvin Winans of The Perfecting Church.

Attisha works as medical director of the Henry Ford Health System’s mobile medical clinic, HANK (Health Alliance of Neighborhood Kids), which is virtually a doctor’s office on wheels. With 59 percent of Detroit’s population living in medically underserved areas, Attisha and his team are able to bring a variety of health care services to children where they spend most of their waking hours – in school and youth community centers.

As president-elect of the School Community Health Alliance of Michigan and an executive committee member of the Council on School Health, American Academy of Pediatrics, Attisha is able to influence change on a broad scale to break down barriers to medical care for Detroit’s children.

"Dr. Attisha’s compassion for the youth he sees means that children who once had no primary care physician to call their own, now have a medical provider who is dedicated to their well-being,” said Stephen Harris, president of Molina Healthcare of Michigan. “It is because of his efforts that we are proud to recognize him with this award.”

Established to honor the memory of Dr. C. David Molina, Molina Healthcare’s founder, the Community Champions program spotlights the good deeds of everyday heroes in their communities. The 2013 winners were all nominated by community-based organizations and also each received a $1,000 grant to give to a deserving nonprofit organization as part of his/her award. Dr. Attisha selected The Children’s Health Project of Detroit to receive his grant.

Source: Molina Healthcare press release