Community Care Wellness Center is a collaborative effort between the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine and the Washington County Board of Education. Because of the uniqueness of this program the Board was awarded the Tennessee School Board Association’s “Award for Excellence in Education Program.”The center is located on the campus of Boones Creek Elementary School and provides developmental and behavioral pediatric services for children and their families in the Washington County School System. According to medical director Dr. Patrick Stern, the staff uses a wellness approach to promote physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health while addressing the medical, behavioral, or academic problems a child may be facing.

The center is used to train medical and health professions students and residents from ETSU's James H. Quillen College of Medicine. In this endeavor, education and health professionals can learn from each other, contribute to core knowledge on how to best nurture children, and benefit by sharing resources to better provide educational and pediatric services to the client population of our schools and this community.