Faith Community Health Network helps elderly residents navigate healthcare needs

FCHN Board Chair Marcy Shanks, FCHN Executive Director Deb Fell-Carlson and FCHN Director of Engagement Tiffany Wadlow at the 2026 ONA Convention. — FCHN Photos

“Faith community nurses go where there is a need, and there was a need at Garden View apartments.”

That’s how Deb Fell-Carlson, founder of Faith Community Health Network (FCHN), put it.

She was talking about how her nonprofit recently received a grant to place a Health Resource Center on site at the senior residential complex. In 2022, her team helped secure an apartment there for then 69-year-old Barlow Carper and his two dogs, just days…