Community

The SFGH Pediatric Asthma & Allergy Clinic is a hospital based clinic serving the poor and underserved children in San Francisco ages birth to 21 in the county's public hospital. Our clinic provides the clinical portion of our multi-faceted approach developed by the San Francisco Asthma Task Force.

ECAPP is a collaboration between East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center in Greenville. Our goal is to reduce asthma exacerbations and ED visits among low income children in eastern NC.

The School Asthma Initiative offers programs and resources to Early Learning Centers and K-12th grade to educate school personnel, students, parents and nurses about proper asthma management. We also provide free management tools and patient assistance for respiratory patients in need of medicaton, oxygen or an air-conditioned environment. We also sponsor Camp Huff-and-Puff for children with asthma ages 8-13.

A statewide multi-agency consortium that promotes and assists school districts to implement and maintain the EPA Tools for Schools program.

(TIGN) Temple Israel of Great Neck. Our newly established Health Advisory is promoting wellness within our community. A goal of ours is to educate the community and establish safety guidelines for the children in our schools (Preschool to High) in the areas of Food Allergies and Asthma.

We provide asthma education classes in English and Spanish to the parents and child with asthma.

The Healthy Homes Program provides free Healthy Homes Assessment to families with asthmatic individuals. The services help identify home environmental triggers for asthma, educate customers on cause-effect relationship, provide low-cost intervention materials to facilitate control of triggers, make follow-up home visits to ensure continuing success in controlling triggers, monitor health outcomes, collect extensive data, and evaluate program performance and objective attainments.

CMS federally funded grant program providing asthma education by certified asthma nurse educators to families in both office and home settings. Supplies to reduce home triggers provided through an innovation grant.