PROGRAM SUCCESS – MAY 2009
Charles E. Simmons, III has been a Pediatrician for almost 30
years. He is single, never been married, and still in search of that
soul-mate he is sure the Lord is sending his way. Simmons Pediatrics is located at 1771 Edgewood Avenue West in the Nursing
Home Complex. He, along with Marvin Wells DMD, and Ray
White, constructed, owned and managed this facility for two
years. He served as the Medical Director for the Nursing Home
for one Year. He also served as Medical Director for Sharp
Ambulance Service for two years.
Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Dr. Simmons to the State
Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology for two terms. He was
State President of the
Medical Dental &
Pharmaceutical Association and served on the
Local and State Boards
of the American Lung
Association. He is a
member of the Sigma
P i P h i F r a t e r n i t y,
National Guardsman
Organization, and past
President of the FLAJAX Club. He was
formally the Chairman
of the Pediatric Department at Methodist
Hospital. While Scoutmaster of Troop 51, he
produced five Eagle
Scouts
and
also
received the Silver
Beaver Award. He has
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been a Chairman’s Roundtable member at the
Johnson Family YMCA for many years and was
over the medical cluster for the Black Achievers
Program on Saturdays.
Dr. Simmons admits most of his patients to Baptist Wolfson’s Children Hospital. He also admits
patients at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Memorial Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital. He faithfully attends
Bethel Baptist Institutional Church where he was
baptized as a child.
A-B HONOR
ROLL
Recipients
for 2008