Building health and resiliency: Philadelphia’s 11th Street Family Health Services

Building health and resiliency: Philadelphia’s 11th Street Family Health Services

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Series Title(s):
Case study
Author(s):
Hostetter, Martha, author
Klein, Sarah, author
Contributor(s):
Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Commonwealth Fund, April 2019
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Community Health Centers
Community Health Services
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
Resilience, Psychological
Philadelphia
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
KEY FEATURE. The federally qualified health center is run by nurses and serves public housing residents and others in North Philadelphia, where the poverty rate surpasses 40 percent. TARGET POPULATION. Most of its patients are African American women covered by Medicaid. Many have chronic medical conditions; a high number have experienced trauma. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT. 11th Street Family Health Services has been a pioneer in using creative arts therapies and mind-body interventions along with traditional counseling to help people cope with behavioral and physical health problems. BENEFITS. Patients have been willing to try nontraditional counseling approaches and also have benefitted from the social support they've found in groups. CHALLENGES. The health center depends on grants to fund some of its more innovative services, as its leaders develop the evidence base to make the case for payer reimbursement.
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (15 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101750805 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101750805