Columbia, SC - Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers, Inc. (ECCHC) is pleased to announce that Five Points Pediatrics has met the required standards and criteria to be recognized as a Patient-Center Medical Home (PCMH) practice. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) awarded Five Points Pediatrics a Level 3 designation, the highest level of recognition. With this highly sought after designation, the first for ECCHC, Five Points Pediatrics becomes the only recognized pediatric practice in the state of South Carolina. This recognition is valid for a period of three years, February 2, 2013 thru February 2, 2016.

Columbia, S.C. - Columbia SC 63 kicks off a year of civil rights programming with We Shall Not Be Moved: A Commemoration of Student Activism in Columbia and the 50th Anniversary of Edwards v. South Carolina on March 3. The day’s events include a church service at Zion Baptist Church and a reunion and roundtable discussion with participants of the movement, including U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.

To honor the Feb. 4 centennial of the birth of Rosa Parks, the United States Postal Service has issued a Rosa Parks stamp. Last year, a stone carving of Parks was added to the National Cathedral. In 2005, she became the first woman and second African American to lie in honor in the nation’s Capitol and, through a special act of Congress, a statue of her was ordered placed in the Capitol.

The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission is seeking nominations for its "Preserving Our Places in History" awards. The mission of the SCAAHC is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina and to assist and enhance the efforts of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.