Netflix The Fab Five reveal the redesigned garden to Thomas-Hockaday. “She cares very much about everybody else, but the problem is she puts 110% of herself in and she doesn’t really take care of herself,” her husband, Ben, explains at the beginning of the episode. She’s known to spend so much time working to help others, she has little time to take care of herself or do things she enjoys, like cooking.

During her episode, titled 'Community Allied,' her family and friends explain she’s a workaholic. Thomas-Hockaday was nominated to be on the show by her business partner and her husband. I have people who come all the time now to get tested because they know us, they trust us.” “They’ve told us that they’re comfortable with coming to us. “Most of these are people of color,” she said. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a lot of Austin’s health care inequities, and she wanted to ensure the communities that have been hit hardest by the virus had access to testing and vaccines. They offered testing and eventually vaccines at the Ana Lark Center in East Austin, which has far fewer health care facilities than West Austin and is home to many low-income Black and brown residents. When the pandemic hit, she and her students set up a COVID-19 clinic. In June 2019, she co-founded the Central Texas Allied Health Institute, a medical training school geared toward students who are at or below the federal poverty level, with the goal of getting more people of color into the medical workforce. Netflix Jereka Thomas-Hockaday is the co-founder of the Central Texas Allied Health Institute.

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