01/19/2026
MLK Day is not a day off. It is a day on.
At Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi and Fusion Vascular, this day carries deep meaning.
Our work takes place in the Mississippi Delta—on roads named for Martin Luther King Jr.—in communities that continue to face the consequences of historic disinvestment, health inequity, and preventable disease.
Dr. Foluso Fakorede did not come here by accident.
He came because this is where the need is greatest.
As the only cardiovascular specialist serving a vast rural region—working alongside Richard Cukelj, the only podiatric surgeon in this region—their shared mission is rooted in a simple but radical truth:
Zip code should never determine whether you live longer, live healthier, or keep your limbs.
The very buildings that house this work were delivered on MLK Day—a reminder that this mission was never meant to be symbolic, but lived.
Dr. King taught that justice demands action.
We honor that calling by:
• Confronting preventable amputations
• Delivering cardiovascular and limb-preservation care in a medical desert
• Screening earlier, intervening sooner, and refusing to accept inequity as normal
MLK reminded us that injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
In healthcare, silence is injustice.
Today, we recommit—not just to remembrance, but to the work.
Because health equity is civil rights work.
Because service is leadership.
Because the Delta deserves excellence.
