"Pensacola: A Proud Past, A Better Tomorrow" airs a look at the state of Escambia County's health on BLAB-TV. Cox Cable customers can tune to Channel 6 for the Pensacola-based cable access channel, and Mediacom customers can locate the channel at 38. The show will rebroadcast periodically.

The show features guests discussing public health and health care. Debbie Ritchie is the show's host.

"On 'Pensacola: A Proud Past, A Better Tomorrow' our goal is to take the community's temperature on a range of important issues. Our community's health is something that touches all of us," Ritchie said. "It affects not just individual lives, though that is significant, but our economy as well."

Watch the Escambia County Health show online.
(Download basic Real Player for free to watch show.)

Guests on this show include:

• Dr. Susan Turner, associate director, Escambia County Health Department
• Dr. Stephen Kimura, regional president, American Lung Association of Florida
• Patsy Malley, regional director, American Lung Association of Florida
• Don Turner, director, Escambia Community Clinics
• David Sjoberg, vice president for planning, Baptist Health Care

Escambia Community Clinics and Health and Hope Clinic will be honored as a "Difference Maker" in our community. Both work to provide free or low-cost medical care to members of our community.

Escambia Community Clinic, sponsored by Baptist Health Care and Sacred Heart Health System, is located at 2200 North Palafox St. and provides a full range of health care services on a "sliding fee" basis.

Health and Hope Clinic, an all-volunteer clinic located at 9999 Chemstrand Rd., is funded by the Pensacola Bay Baptist Association and has a mission of delivering professional Christ-centered volunteer health care to the economically disadvantaged patients in the greater Pensacola area.