Let us help you achieve positive health outcomes and assure equity in your projects and programs.

Kathey Avery,
RN, BSN, CN

828-768-2369
P.O. Box 15652
Asheville, NC 28813

Prevention lights the way to better health

We bring extensive experience and knowledge to help individuals and groups achieve positive health outcomes, effectively manage chronic conditions, and implement health equity measures that consider societal, cultural, political, and economic factors.

Hire us today for health-related talks and workshops, Community Health Worker orientation, tobacco cessation counseling, implementing wellness programs for your church or residential community, or advice on effectively incorporating social determinants of health and an equity lens to your programs and projects.

Promoting optimum health and equity in Western North Carolina

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Promoting optimum health and equity in Western North Carolina -

Avery HEC was founded in December 2018 by Kathey Avery, BSN, RN, CN, NCM of Fairview, North Carolina, to offer health-related consulting and services to businesses, organizations, and individuals. Avery also has established, on-call partners with experience in a range of areas including housing, finance, and career development. 

Who Is Kathey Avery?

 

Sought after wellness EXPERT.

 

EXPERIENCED nurse and healthcare professional.

Lifelong COMMUNITY supporter.

Tireless equity and justice ADVOCATE.

 
 
 

Hi, I’m Kathey,

YOUR WELLNESS & EQUITY CONSULTANT


The founder and owner of Avery Health — Education and Consulting, I have more than 35 years of experience in healthcare and community activism. I’m dedicated to raising awareness about, and helping in the prevention of, chronic diseases and preventable cancers through individual and public education and personal accountability.



Our services include Talks & Workshops, Community Health Worker Training, and Consulting. Let’s work together!

Prevention Lights the Way

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Prevention Lights the Way |

  • Kathey Avery is a world changer in the truest sense. She has a lifetime of building relationships and partnerships throughout Western North Carolina in ways that make for deep impact. Through her community education, she meets people where they are and provides people with practical skills about how to improve well-being. Kathey uses the expertise gained through a career in nursing to shape her outreach by a team of community health care workers. In everything she does, Kathey Avery brings an equity lens, an extraordinary capacity to show how systems have unintended and unjust consequences, and an inclusive heart.

    —Heather Laine Talley, Tzedek Social Justice Fund

  • Kathey Avery, a registered nurse, is a woman on a mission —to be a catalyst for community health improvement in Western North Carolina. I have known Kathey for more than a decade. She is committed to extending health care beyond the limits of doctors’ offices and hospital walls. She reaches people who most need care but who are marginalized by insurance companies and politics. Kathey understand the social determinants of health care disparities. Her work is energized by uncommon vision and passion.

    —Jim Pitts, PhD, retired sociologist, Asheville, N.C.

  • The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Kathey is her endless energy and commitment for supporting the people most in need in our communities. Not only does she tirelessly fight for resources and rights for people—from basic needs such as toilet paper and healthy foods to policy change to improve the quality of health care—she is there, with them in their daily struggles and celebrations. She builds relationships with clients and with donors alike. She moves adeptly from community to boardroom setting, and she asks the hard questions that people do not want to ask, and even more so, that people do not want to answer! Kathey's care and contributions are many, and her talents and expertise run deep.

    —Ameena Batada, associate professor of health and wellness, UNC Asheville

  • Kathey knows that relationships built through trust and caring are what heal and build the Beloved Community. She is both a healer with individuals and strategically with organizations. Need a person with a particular skill set for a project? Ask Kathey – she knows everybody. Need something done on a deadline? Ask Kathey – she will make it happen. Need another point of view? Ask Kathey – she's a critical thinker.

    –Deborah Miles, founder and retired director of the UNC Asheville Center for Diversity Education