Category: HEALTH CARE AND PROGRAMS

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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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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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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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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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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PPP is a non-profit agency in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia. It is a multi-service public health organization committed to protecting the health and welfare of the homeless, the uninsured, individuals suffering from substance abuse, and sex industry workers.
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The School of Dental Medicine, through its Division of Community Oral Health, emphasizes local and global community health as a core competency and highlights the integration of oral health within general health care. The Division of Community Oral Health provides oral health education, screening, preventive and clinical dental services, and referrals in select West and Southwest Philadelphia schools and other community sites and provides supervised clinical experiences for students in community settings serving elderly and special needs patients.
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The Home Visitation Program helps patients who have a difficult time getting to see physicians in office. Family medicine physicians, residents, social workers and pharmacists provide needed care each month to those requiring medical attention in their own homes.
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HIP partners with the West Philadelphia community to meet the needs of society and to advance the translation of knowledge and evidence-based, culturally competent models of care in the areas of healthy lifestyles; transitions in health, illness, and end of life; and disparities in access to and provision of health care.
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Hall-Mercer Community Behavioral Health Center is committed to providing quality behavioral health care services to members of the community- in particular, vulnerable and under-served populations in Philadelphia.
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