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 Last spring, Peniquia “Pinky” Russell called PHMC affiliate Linda Creed with a desperate request. She had a lump in her breast that had tripled in size within the span of a month and she was not sure what to do next. “I didn’t have any insurance at the time,” recalls the 29-year-old. “When I first called Linda Creed, they asked me if I had a primary doctor. But because I didn’t have health insurance, I would go to free clinics, but only if I had to, not for routine checkups.” Donna Duncan, executive director of Linda Creed, comes across clients like Russell everyday—women whose status as uninsured and underinsured patients prevents them from receiving regular, much-needed care.
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PHMC’s work—as extensive and comprehensive as it is—focuses on the public health needs of the region. Yet we remain very much plugged into the national trends that unquestionably affect our work.
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Announcements from PHMC.
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As we enjoy August, one of the hottest months of the year in our region, keep in mind the following exercise tips from Students Run Philly Style director Heather McDanel.
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President Obama signed healthcare reform into law on Tuesday, March 23. For this issue of DIRECTIONS, we asked PHMC and affiliate employees: “What does passing healthcare reform mean to you?”
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With new healthcare legislation promising basic health care for millions, there will be a demand for more primary care practitioners—a gap that nurse practitioners are ready to fill.
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Eleven students in the Homeless Teen Education Project participated in PHMC’s “The Phrase that Pays” Black History Month essay contest, selecting one of 10 provided quotes, identifying its author and writing a 300-word essay inspired by the chosen phrase.
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As Targeted Solutions supports organizations in the process of growing and changing to meet new challenges and realities, we also continuously expand and enhance our services to meet our clients’ needs.
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In May, PHMC received a contract from the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) to serve as the Southeast Regional Key (SERK) for its Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to Quality initiative, a statewide quality improvement program targeting childcare providers.
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In March, PHMC’s Care Clinic moved from St. Joseph’s Hospital to 1200 Callowhill Street.
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Forty years after President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs” the White House released a national drug policy that aims to fight a disease, not a war, by treating illegal drug use as a public health issue and investing more resources into prevention and treatment.
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This summer, PHMC’s Community Health Data Base (CHDB) fields its 2010 Southeastern Pennsylvania
Household Health survey, providing an opportunity to measure some of the earliest regional effects of changes in access to care resulting from healthcare reform.
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