Tulane University Health Sciences Center Hope Grant Donation and Handprint Ceremony

On September 26, 2011, the New Orleans-area Hyundai dealers and Hyundai Hope on Wheels awarded Tulane University Health Sciences Center of New Orleans, Louisiana with a Hope Grant in the amount of $100000 to fund research into childhood cancer. The check was officially presented to Tulane University Health Sciences Center at 1pm, where New Orleans [...]

HEALTHY HARVEST

Healthy Harvest is a joint effort by Harris County Hospital District and Veggie Pals Farmers Market to bring affordable, farm-fresh fruit and vegetables to the patients and communities we serve. Harris County Hospital District is the community-owned healthcare system for the nation’s third most-populous county. The hospitals district is staffed by faculty and residents from [...]

People’s Health Clinic, Park City, Utah

People’s Health Clinic is a community-based non-profit organization committed to providing quality medical and healthcare to uninsured residents of Summit and Wasatch counties in Utah. Since PHC opened in 2000 in an RV, more than 25000 patient visits have been conducted, and the savings to the healthcare system is at least a hundred-fold. PHC helps [...]

Building Better Health

A County that is Healthy, Safe and Thriving is the vision that guides the County of San Diego. The County’s Health and Human Services Agency provides a number of core health programs. At the State of the County Address on February 10, 2010, Chairwoman Slater-Price announced the launch of a new innovative health strategy to [...]

Career Advice On Becoming A Health Visitor by Andrew Soloman (Full Version)

Highlights at icould.com Andrew Soloman is a Health Visitor working in Wolverhampton. A ‘jack the lad’ at school, it was a suggestion from an ex-girlfriend’s mum that lead him to nursing. He describes his route from nurse to health visitor and the satisfaction that he gets from helping families in the area in which he [...]

HOTT!! (Health Outreach To Teens)

Provided by Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City, Health Outreach To Teens (HOTT) strives to meet the medical and mental health needs of LGBTQ youth. Many of our HOTT patients make their homes on the city streets and have no other options for health care – let alone the sensitive, quality care for [...]

Primary Health Care, Inc. – Iowa

We are a nonprofit community health center dedicated to serving the medically insured, uninsured and underinsured with their health care needs. We strive to find and successfully treat medical conditions before they become serious enough to require hospitalization or emergency treatment. We also provide follow-up, continuity of care, pharmacy assistance, and supportive services to help [...]

Yogan Pillay South Africa Ministry of Health Part 2

Yogan Pillay, Depute DG for Strategic Health Programs, presenting the Keynote Speech ‘Achieving MDG 4 & 5: The role of technology in reaching women and children through Community Health Workers’ during the mHealthEd conference which took place on June 6th 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Innovate at Illinois: Health Care, pt.2

In this segment, Danyelle Michelini talks with two of the founders of the company IntelliWheels. This student start-up was founded by mechanical science and engineering graduate student Scott Daigle and Marissa Siebel, a PH.D candidate in Community Health. Scott’s idea was to create a manual wheelchair that uses automatic gear-shifting for easier use. The fourth [...]

Aaron Hernandez visits the Gardner Pilot Academy

New England Patriot Tight End Aaron Hernandez spent the afternoon of Friday, April 29, 2011 with students from the Gardner Pilot Academy to bring attention to the importance of providing onsite mental health in schools. Hernandez has taken up the cause because of his own childhood in an underserved community and because of the growing [...]

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