2020

The Green Family Foundation NeighborhoodHELP (Health Education Learning Program) continues to engage underserved communities and increase access to healthcare in uncertain times. Despite their mobile health centers not operating, the NeighborhoodHELP Outreach Team continues to connect households to services in the community.
The team is reaching out to each of the 800 households they serve to find out what they can do for them. Armed with personal protective equipment (PPE), physician assistants have been making house calls for those that need special care. They bring groceries, medicine refills, medical equipment, and anything else their patients need.
“This is extremely important because minorities—blacks and Hispanics—and the socioeconomically disadvantaged experience health disparities and social conditions that put them at higher risk for contracting the virus,” said Dr. David Brown, chief of Family and Community Medicine. “We want to help them stay healthy.”

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