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Caring for Community - Grant Recipients
May 2005
Baylor College of Medicine: "HOMES" Houston Outreach Medicine,
Education, and Social Services (HOMES) is an interdisciplinary,
student-run, free clinic for the homeless, founded by several of
the city's higher education institutions. More than 200 students
from area health professions schools provide primary care and social
services to the clinic's homeless patients.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: "Columbia
Student Medical Outreach (CoSMO)" Through this grant, students
plan to improve access to primary care and preventive medical care
for uninsured residents of the community by continuing to operate
a free clinic on Saturday mornings.
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans:
"Student Run Homeless Clinics" For 10 years the Student Run
Homeless Clinics-an adult clinic, an ob/gyn clinic, and a pediatric
clinic-have provided primary care and disease screening to thousands
of city residents who are homeless. This grant will allow them to
provide new services, such as same day prescriptions, free over-the-counter
medications, more accessible HIV screening, and bus tokens for patients
without transportation.
University at Buffalo, State University of New York School of
Medicine and Biological Sciences: "Providing Care to Buffalo's East
Side Community" Funding for this project will cover the costs
of prescribed medications and flu/pneumonia vaccines for uninsured
and low-income patients who seek care at the student-run Lighthouse
Free Medical Clinic.
University of Massachusetts Medical School: "Marrow for Tomorrow"
Students will educate, promote, and recruit minority residents of
Worcester for bone marrow registries through presentations to high
school students, multi-lingual videos, and strategic collaborations
with community health centers.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School: "Promise Clinic" Students at this primary
care clinic, located in New Brunswick, serve the medical needs of
the clients of a nearby soup kitchen and work with other health
professionals and community coalitions to provide much needed social
services.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine: "ESL Health Literacy
Program" Students will work to improve the health literacy of
the Somali Bantu refugees living in Pittsburgh, most of whom are
illiterate in their rarely spoken native language and cannot communicate
with the few translators available. Through health education workshops
and materials, students will teach the refugees to develop health
"survival skills" and healthy behaviors, and will orient them to
the city's health care system.
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry: "UR
Well Free Health Center" UR Well is a student-run community
clinic that provides medical care one night a week for the city's
uninsured residents.
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