Volunteers Who Make an Impact

Pam Toney is the executive director of Bluffton/Jasper Volunteers in Medicine. 

She is originally from Virginia where she received her undergraduate degree in elementary education from Bridgewater College. She has done graduate work at Ohio State University and the University of
Virginia. Pam’s husband’s job in university athletics has moved the family up and down the east coast beginning with a 14 year career in the athletic department at the University of South Carolina.

She was the director of the North Alabama Medical Reserve Corps. It was during this time that Pam began to work with medical and nonmedical volunteers when
she helped to organize a triage center for victims of the 2011 tornadoes that savaged parts of northern Alabama.
In 2014 Pam became the executive director of the Bluffton Jasper Volunteers in Medicine. In this position the clinic has expanded services, increased patient visits, and moved the budget from
$250,000.00 to $675,000 annually. Pam serves on the AccessHealth of the Lowcountry Board, the Advisory Board for Medical Assistants at South University and the Advisory Board for the National
Volunteers in Medicine part of the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. In addition she is a member of the Board of Directors for the South Carolina Free Clinic Association.