Community Connections
What is it?The Good Neighbor Program provides socialization and safety monitoring to veterans in the community. Good Neighbor volunteers provide emotional and psychosocial support to home-bound patients and/or family within a 10-mile radius of their own home. After each visit, volunteers are able…
What is it?Margaret Mary Community Hospital offers bicycle helmets to the public for $5.00 each. The helmets are Snell qualified and cost the hospital $5.45 each plus shipping. Margaret Mary pays for the shipping cost and sells the helmets at cost to ensure that even families with limited incomes…
Explore RWJ Hamilton's senior programs, which include evidence-based workshops, support groups, and comprehensive health resources integrated with senior housing.
OverviewResidents of the Greater New Orleans area have access to monthly health seminars, screenings and support groups through a variety of comprehensive health and wellness programs offered as part of Touro Infirmary’s Community Outreach Program. Each year, Touro implements educational programs…
What is it?The Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN, or the Institute) is a partnership of Children’s National Medical Center and George Washington University, launched in 2008. This initiative was designed to develop a uniquely pediatric perspective on the…
What is it?This refugee and immigrant clinic currently serves about 400 children, most of whom are Bantu from Somalia. The clinic is open two days a week and is staffed by a designated physician, along with a nurse and scheduling specialist. They work closely with the Vermont Refugee Resettlement…
OverviewPositive Link is one of 12 Indiana care coordination sites for people living with HIV/AIDS. Based at Bloomington Hospital's Community Health Services, it serves seven counties in south central Indiana: Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Lawrence, Monroe and Owen.
What is it?Halifax Regional Medical Center provides a unique program for HIV/AIDS patients in one of the poorest regions of North Carolina.
What is it?With the help of a grant from the Fanny Holt Ames and Edna Louise Holt Fund, Cornerstone Pediatrics in rural Vermont set up "Jumpstart for a Healthy Life," a three-year project that developed tools to help prevent and treat childhood obesity. Jumpstart is the joint project of…
What is it?The Community Hospital of Bremen donates space in its physician clinic facility to a broad range of community service organizations.