Joy Bonala
Joy Bonala is a multimedia journalist currently based in Summerville, SC. She began her career in print media after graduating from Western Kentucky University with a degree in photojournalism. She loved using her passion for photography to document local news and tell the stories of people in her community. Her career in journalism has allowed her to experience life across the United States with positions in Oklahoma, Virginia, New Hampshire, Wyoming and Texas. Eventually, she brought her visual skills to radio as a news director at an NPR news station in Abilene, TX. There she explored new ways to complement audio stories by incorporating still photographs and video. And now, as a content producer in the digital department at SCETV, she is a storyteller for the MyTelehealth Team which seeks to elevate public understanding and knowledge of Telehealth and its diverse services in South Carolina.
Stories
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Connected Conversations in Telehealth
June 30, 2025South Carolina Telehealth Alliance stakeholders met earlier this month at South Carolina ETV in Columbia for an annual retreat to learn best practices, collaborate on new initiatives and prepare for future changes in federal policies involving telehealth delivery. The South... -
Curbing Addiction: A Journey of Recovery through Telehealth
June 09, 2025National surveys are reporting a drop in the rate of fatal drug overdose deaths in the United States. Many public health experts credit life-saving medications and treatment programs for the improvement. In the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, rates of fatal drug overdoses... -
Answer the Call, Bridge the Gap to Mental Health
June 09, 2025In South Carolina, an estimated one in six people under the age of 17 experience a mental health disorder. But treatment options can be complicated due to a nationwide shortage of psychiatrists. “We have 10,000 child and adolescent psychiatrists in the whole country and... -
Future Workforce Sustainability Through Telehealth Education
April 30, 2025A grant-funded workforce development pipeline network is providing health care education, specifically about telehealth, to high school and technical college students in rural areas of South Carolina. The South Carolina Rural Telehealth Workforce Pipeline Network, was... -
Healthy students, thriving classrooms: the benefits of school-based health care
April 18, 2025School-based telehealth increases access to high quality health care for students by bringing care into the school setting. Students miss less class time and parents don’t have to miss work to take their child to the doctor’s office. But the benefits of school-based... -
Telehealth Ensures Care After Fire
April 07, 2025In April of 2024, when a weekend fire destroyed Prisma Health’s Ferlauto Center for Complex Pediatric Care, patients were still able to be seen on the following Monday thanks in large part to telehealth. “Right after the fire telehealth was instrumental,” said Dr. Arun...
