Kudos to Executive Insight staff writer Michael Jones for his moving profile of Shannon Williams, an uninsured Mississippi woman with cancer who received lifesaving charity care from Monroe County Hospital in Monroeville, Ala., made possible by the hospital’s participation in 340B.
She originally received treatment from the hospital in 2006 when she had health insurance and returned for help in 2010 when, lacking insurance, her cancer came back. “They pretty much saved my life twice,” Williams said. “That’s how I feel about it.”
If Williams’ name and story sounds familiar, it might be because she is one of SNHPA’s original Faces of 340B.