Community Engagement
We appreciate that our role as healthcare providers is to help build stronger communities. Our Community Engagement initiative helps our residents extend their efforts beyond the walls of our hospital and clinic. Together with various local organizations and non-profit programs, our residents connect with community members to improve health promotion, implement change, and foster partnerships. Residents identify areas of need or follow their special interests and engage in volunteering activities through the year. Residents work alongside these organizations to advocate and empower our neighbors in a million different ways. Our hope is that our Community Engagement will help build trust, inclusivity and promote social equity for our community’s members.
Some of our volunteering sites include:
- Friends of the Wissahickon
- MANNA
- Caring for Friends
- Broad Street Love
- Prevention Point
- SHARE Food Program
- Farm Philly
- The Superhero Project
- Back on My Feet
Longitudinal partners:
- Face to Face: Face to Face is a human services organization that provides hot meals, legal, health
and social services to those in need in Germantown.
- Jenks Academy of Arts and Science: residents lead a monthly health education class for K-8 students with a focus on diabetes and nutrition
- The Rock: clinic in Kensington neighborhood offering free services including wound care and STD screening with a focus on the care of unhoused patients and those with opiate use disorder
- Community Lecture Series: partner with hospital and local organizations to provide a monthly lecture series for the community on a variety of topics
