Published 5:12 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2026 MOULTRIE – This was the third year of PCOM South Georgia being in its Rural Health Initiative Building at the Sunbelt Ag Expo. This permanent exhibit space brought together about 30 community health partners and nonprofit organizations to provide health resources and free health screenings, along with interactive learning zones, during the three-day show. PCOM representatives said they were pleased with the response from the Expo visitors. “Partnerships start just by showing up … And the ability to have this building at the Expo allows us to show up for the agriculture community, which to me, is the heartbeat of the community,” said Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, director of campus and community partnerships. “Without agriculture, we can’t go, like, we won’t be going. The community can’t go, right? So, it gives us the ability to pour back into the agriculture community that is so important to us by health education, and our students being able to engage with them and learn from the agriculture community.” She said, to her, the best way the medical students learned was by getting out into the community. It made them better physicians, she said. “Understanding the community, understanding the needs of the community will help impact them,” she said. “I think this building is just a way to pour back into the heartbeat of our community.” Jenkins said the reasons they were there were to do health screenings, to do some preventive work, to do…
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