This program is designed to improve:
Three times each year the Family Health Centers offer flu nurse visit sessions that are open to all.
As the dates and times for each flu nurse visit session are established, we will share them with you on our website, so be sure to visit often to find out when they will be offered.
FitwitsTM is an obesity prevention and health literacy project that uses games and character-driven narratives to transform unhealthy lifestyles into healthy ones. The program is a collaborative project between Carnegie Mellon University School of Design and UPMC St. Margaret Family Health Centers.
The FitwitsTM project operates in many locations, including:
Faculty and resident physicians from the Bloomfield-Garfield Family Health Center work to address community and children's public health concerns by providing educational programming in five local elementary schools and The Neighborhood Academy.
They provide:
Faculty and resident physicians from the Lawrenceville Family Health Center provide Career Connection High School students with the opportunity for:
The UPMC Shadyside Pittsburgh Public School Health Partnership implements evidence-based sexuality education curricula in three Pittsburgh Public 6-12 schools in an effort to address public health concerns which impact the school communities, notably adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
The UPMC Shadyside Pittsburgh Public School Health Partnership also provides:
Dr. McGaffey also worked with UPMC St. Margaret Director of Pharmacy Education, Patricia Klatt, PharmD, to provide in-school teaching and asthma kits to the City of Pittsburgh Schools, helping to manage the care of children with asthma, resulting in a drop in emergency room visits.
The School Asthma Initiative carries out a school-wide “Asthma Awareness Day” at McCleary Elementary school and continues to educate school students with asthma as well as teachers and administrators in 5 school partners.
The Peacemaker Program is a one-hour educational class held on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for 4th graders. It is a slide-based program contrasting violence (verbal and physical) and peaceable acts in homes, schools, and communities, nationally, internationally, and from “mother nature.”
Reach Out and Read is a national literacy advocacy campaign for children. Our providers and staff were trained and work to improve literacy and foster a love of reading in our children and families.
Physicians and other members of the care team from Shadyside Family Health Center visit the Wood Street Homeless Shelter to provide care on a regular basis.
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