Name Mariah Taylor | ||
Mariah A. Taylor, MSN, RN, CPNP (born 1 October 1939, in Atlanta, Texas), is the founder of the North Portland Nurse Practitioner Community Health Clinic in Portland, Oregon.
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Taylor was born to Geneva and Isaac Allen into a family of 24 siblings.
Taylor has won Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network Use Your Life award.
Education
Taylor received her LPN certification from the Portland Community College Licensed Practical Nurse Program in 1972. She achieved her Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Southern Oregon State College in Ashland, Oregon in 1977. She earned her Master's Degree in Nursing from the University of Colorado Health Sciences University in Denver, Colorado. She also was certified as a pediatric nurse practitioner from the University of Colorado.
North Portland Nurse Practitioner Community Health Clinic
In 1982 Taylor opened her well-baby clinic in North Portland, which since inception has served the neediest clients of all kinds in the greater Portland metropolitan area. In 1984, the clinic became a United Way agency. The most common health problems treated at the clinic have been poverty-related, with funding coming from donations and foundations. The clinic has also provided fresh produce, milk and clothes to the community.