AAMC Caring for Community Grant Program
August 2000 Grant Recipients Sponsored by Pfizer Inc.
Albert Einstein, New York: ECHO Free Clinic
The ECHO Free Clinic will expand existing services at the Walton
Family Health Center by subsidizing patient transportation, generic
pharmaceuticals, and some specialty care services for uninsured
immigrants and the poor at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. (supplemental
grant)
Stanford University: Children's Hospital Garden Project
Medical students designed, constructed and maintain an interactive
and therapeutic garden for medical-psychiatric patients in a children's
hospital. (non-continuous grant)
SUNY Downstate: Caring for Our Brooklyn Community
This collaborative program between community based programs provides
influenza and pneumonia vaccinations to low income citizens of the
central Brooklyn neighborhoods. (new project grant)
UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson: Health Outreach Project
The Health Outreach Project ("HOP") addresses the need
for quality health care in Camden, New Jersey while providing an
enriching community health experience, fostering community health
advocacy skills, and helping students develop the skills necessary
to run a quality primary care clinic. (new project grant)
University of North Carolina: SHAC Habitat for Humanity Partnership
The medical students working in the Student Health Action Coalition
(SHAC), a student run free medical clinic, are partnering with the
local Habitat for Humanity organization to build one house per year
for a family in need from their local Orange County community. Medical
students will conduct fund raisers to match Caring for Community
funds. (new project grant)
University of South Carolina: Project HEART
Project Health Education and Awareness Resources Together (H.E.A.R.T.)
is a balanced prevention program for hypertension that involves
participation from all students at the School of Medicine and provides
both education and preventative services to an underserved minority
community in Columbia, South Carolina. (new project grant)
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