Politics & Government

Fourth Ward Councilor to be Honored for Health Care Contributions

Essex County Freeholders will recognize Dr. Renee Baskerville at ceremony next week.

The Essex County Freeholders will recognize Montclair Fourth Ward Councilor Dr. Renee Baskerville next week for her commitment and contributions to health care.

Baskerville will be honored at the freeholders' Health Care Professionals Recognition Ceremony on Thursday, May 15 at the County Hall of Records in Newark.

"I am deeply honored by this distinction on the part of the County Board of Chosen Freeholders," Baskerville said. "As a medical professional, my practice has been rooted in the belief expressed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘He (She) is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.’"
 
Baskerville said she is also inspired by the words and deeds of Mother Theresa.
 
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love," she said. "There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
 
"It is my joy and privilege to serve my patients and humanity with a heart full of love and soul generated by faith, hope and thanksgiving."


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