Community Connections
What is it?Increasing the number of youth and adults at a healthy weight is a top priority for Lancaster General Health.
What is it?Partners for Healthy Students (PHS) is a school-based health service that provides free medical and urgent/emergent dental care to uninsured or underinsured children at 26 participating schools in three area school districts and charter schools. In 2014, PHS will be expanding its service…
What is it?In an effort to reach asthma sufferers early in childhood and puberty – especially those who fall into lower-income categories – Camp Catch Your Breath was formed more than 20 years ago. The camp is hosted at Jackson’s Mill 4-H Camp by United Hospital Center and the American Lung…
Providing comprehensive outpatient care for people living with HIV disease in suburban Virginia, Inova Juniper Program enhances quality of life for over 1,300 uninsured and underinsured clients.
Overview
In 1999, when two local hospital emergency departments (EDs) and a small primary care clinic closed, the remaining local EDs struggled to serve one of the state’s largest uninsured patient populations. Orange County providers, including Orange County Government, hospitals, federally…
OverviewThe Neighborhood School Nurse Initiative is a collaborative effort between Froedtert Hospital, Westside Academies (a K-8 public charter school), and Progressive Community Health Center (a federally qualified health center), to provide a full-time school nurse for about 700 students in the…
What is it?St. Mary’s Hospital, part of SSM Health Care, partners with ABC for Health, a not-for-profit public interest law firm, to provide advocacy in financial and legal health care issues. The partnership also provides proactive health benefits counseling services to help patients secure all…
OverviewIn 1991, in partnership with Baltimore’s Seventh Baptist Church, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (UMH) opened a primary health care clinic to provide services to uninsured residents of northeast Baltimore. Originally located in the basement of a house owned by the church, the clinic has…
What is it?With the increasing trend of childhood obesity in this country, Frisbie Memorial Hospital’s latest community initiative is to improve the nutrition and fitness habits of children. “Healthy Moves” is a collaboration between Frisbie’s Outpatient Nutrition Services and Rehabilitation…
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The Golden Heart Project is a coalition working to alleviate the impact of chronic alcoholism on individuals and the community. Partners from organizations representing public safety and corrections, government, health care, business, and behavioral health treatment work together to…