12/12/2025
Congratulations to our Nurse Practitioner, Chuck Arnold for receiving the Vince Ford Employee of the Year Award for Prisma Health Accountable Communities! Such a great honor. Thank you for using the talents God has given you to serve him..,
Employee of the Year Nomination- Prisma Health Accountable Communities Department
It is my honor to nominate Charles (Chuck) Arnold for Employee of the Year for Prisma Health Accountable Communities. His life and work embody Prisma Health’s commitment to inspire health, serve with compassion, and be the difference not only in our community but around the world.
Chuck’s calling to healthcare began early. As a teenager, he spent his summers in Honduras serving as a translator for medical teams. Those experiences shaped his heart for the underserved and guided his decision to become a Nurse and later a Nurse Practitioner. That same passion led him to spend nineteen years caring for the underinsured at New Horizon, establishing a legacy of service that continues today.
Since joining Grace Church, Chuck has expanded his mission work globally. He has participated in medical missions in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Kenya. Since 2008, he has served as the lead medical provider for all Grace Church trips to Kenya, at times traveling three times a year. In addition, he serves as the medical liaison for every Grace Church medical mission, coordinating teams domestically and internationally, and ordering all medications and supplies. He also oversees the emergency medical kits used on mission trips for teaching, construction, and outreach, now reaching Germany, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, and Kenya. His leadership ensures that every team is prepared, equipped, and able to safely deliver care.
Chuck brings that same level of compassion and excellence to his role with the Prisma Health Mobile Health Clinic, where he has served since its inception more than ten years ago. His commitment to patients is unwavering. One example stands out: We cared for a male patient who had recently relapsed after twenty-three years of sobriety. He had lost his job, was behind on rent, and was in critical need of urgent lab work. Although Chuck emphasized the urgency of addressing his medical needs, the patient could only focus on finding employment to avoid homelessness.
Recognizing the heavy emotional and spiritual burden the patient carried, Chuck gently placed a hand on his shoulder. While the patient spoke, Chuck silently prayed over him offering comfort, stability, and compassion without the patient even realizing it. That moment reminded me that true healing encompasses the body, mind, and soul, and Chuck naturally sees and responds to all three. I was deeply moved because I could see exactly what he was doing: meeting the patient’s humanity with his own.
Even on days when he does not feel his best, Chuck gives 100% to his patients and his team. His dedication is not limited by location or circumstance. While serving in Kenya, Chuck encountered a parishioner who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer yet had no access to lifesaving treatment in his home country. Chuck collaborated with a team of medical professionals to arrange for the man to travel to the United States for care at no cost. After surgery, Chuck and his wife welcomed him into their home and personally cared for him until he recovered. Because of Chuck’s intervention, a man who had no viable options is alive today.
Chuck does far more than provide medical care, he restores dignity, offers hope, and changes lives. His actions consistently reflect Prisma Health’s mission in its purest form. He inspires health through his leadership and global outreach, he serves with compassion by meeting people where they are, and he is the difference for patients who often have nowhere else to turn.
For these reasons, I wholeheartedly nominate Chuck for Employee of the Year. His service, humility, and dedication make him an extraordinary representative of the Accountable Communities Department, The Mobile Health Clinic and of Prisma Health as a whole.
