VIPS has been established to provide a vehicle for staff, faculty, alumni, and the West Philadelphia community to work together through community service activities and events. Further, Penn VIPS assists schools, community groups and non-profit organizations in achieving their goals of providing service to their constituents.
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Author: Jill McDonald
Penn Medicine in the Community
Community events are listed and Penn Medicine employees & students are invited to browse upcoming community outreach opportunities and register for those that interest them.
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Penn Medicine Community Activity Reporting E-nitiative (CAREs)
The university’s primary liaison with city, state, and federal governments, as well as with Penn’s many external constituencies and community organizations.
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Office of Government and Community Affairs
The university’s primary liaison with city, state, and federal governments, as well as with Penn’s many external constituencies and community organizations.
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Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships
Penn’s central administrative office for community partnership programs.
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Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative
The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI) is a program of University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships to address issues of poor nutrition and physical fitness in West Philadelphia.
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University City Hospitality Coalition
The University City Hospitality Coalition provides meals to vulnerable individuals in University City six days a week. More than just a soup kitchen, it also offers medical advice, vaccinations, screening tests, and medical referrals by physicians and medical students from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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United Community Clinics (UCC)
UCC is a free health clinic coordinated by University of Pennsylvania students from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Social Work. Located in a church in the East Parkside community of West Philadelphia, UCC draws upon the resources and expertise of this multi-disciplinary group of students in order to offer a wide range of services to the surrounding community. Their goal is to develop an understanding of the needs of the community, and respond to those needs by providing clinical assistance, education, referral and representation services.
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Transitions in Care
The Transitions in Care program works to ease the transition from hospital to home and reduce the need for readmission. Newly discharged older patients with a chronic disease, such as diabetes or heart failure, are assigned specially trained nurse practitioners who make regular home visits for up to three months. While recovering at home, patients receive the care they need to stay out of the hospital or the emergency room.
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Refugee Clinic at Penn Center for Primary Care
The Refugee Clinic is a partnership with HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) Pennsylvania, a local rescue, resettlement and assistance agency. Working through translation services, the clinic provides medical care to newly arrived refugees from such countries as Nepal, Eritrea, and Burma, who speak a variety of languages including Nepali, Tigrinya, Chin, and Kachin. Penn internal medicine residents work with attending physicians to carry out physical exams, administer immunizations and arrange for specialty care.
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