Community Outreach
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center's community outreach programs serve children, seniors, the homeless, and the medically underserved. These important programs, along with many others, helped earn us the Foster G. McGaw Prize for Excellence in Hospital Community Service:
Osborn Family Health Center is a licensed ambulatory healthcare facility offering primary and specialty care to residents of Camden City and surrounding municipalities with particular emphasis on combating the high infant mortality rate in the city. In addition to healthcare services, programs include nutritional counseling, patient education, social services, and Reach Out and Read to encourage reading at an early age by modeling reading.
Child Development serves infants and toddlers with developmental delays or disabilities and supports families. Services are provided in the home or in a community setting. The team consists of physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, special educators, social workers, program assistants and family liaisons.
The Bridge is a unique program of support and positive lifestyle enrichment for adolescents. Large and small group discussions give them the chance to share feelings and experiences in a safe and confidential environment. The teens help facilitate the group and their input and suggestions are used in planning the format.
Youth Development is a conduit for 30-35 youth serving organizations to assess their capability to incorporate youth development principles, practices and approaches within their programs. Based on outcomes a strategic plan will emerge that measures, monitors and evaluates each programs' effectiveness.
Senior Services consists of three components:
- Foster Grandparent Program invites low-income senior volunteers aged
60 years and older to provide care and attention to children and youth with
exceptional needs in an institutional setting.
- Senior Companions are low-income senior volunteers aged 60 years and
older who provide non-medical services to the homebound and frail
elderly
- Helping Hands is a program of volunteers assisting seniors to remain in their least restrictive environment by assisting them to keep medical appointments.
Learning Collaborative for a Healthier Camden is a partnership of individuals, neighborhood groups, health and human service providers and organizations who care about creating a healthier Camden.
Community Health Practice is a free all volunteer medical and specialty service providing primary and specialty healthcare to the medically underserved, the poor, under/uninsured and low-income employed/unemployed persons without regard for race, religion, ethinicity, citizenship.
Camden Wellness, located at five sites throughout Camden City, offers wholistic health options of massage therapy, reflexology, meditaion, yoga and stress management to persons who otherwise have no access to these healing and health promoting services.
Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County's Outreach encompasses the Parish Nurse/Health Ministries Institute, Art Gallery, Community Health Assets Survey, Infant Mortality Task Force and a Minority Health Initiative in partnership with “The Gathering” a 501c3 community organization.
