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Berks Clinic

Location: 480 Big Spring Road, Robesonia, PA 19551 (View Map)

Through this HOP clinic, students will be partnering with the Berks Free Medical Clinic located in Robesonia, Pennsylvania. BFMC provides primary care to individuals without insurance: adult patients on Wednesday nights weekly and OB/GYN patients Thursday nights once a month. The facility is hosted within St. Daniel’s Lutheran Church and features two patient rooms as well as a lounge area for staff. Responsibilities for students include physician and nurse shadowing, taking initial H&P with or without attending supervision, assisting with triage and vitals, conducting social determinants of health surveys and assisting with paperwork (prescriptions, discharge, charting, lab/imaging orders).

FaithCare Clinic

Location: Life Church Reading, 621 Centre Avenue, Reading, PA 19601 (View Map)

Drexel University College of Medicine West Reading Campus at Tower Health is excited to be partnering with the FaithCare organization to provide medical students clinical opportunities early in their medical school careers at a site that emphasizes faith and medicine. FaithCare was organized in part to accept the American Association of Medical Colleges challenge to be role models by teaching medical students and residents how to incorporate spirituality into the practice of medicine. Although the clinic is faith-based, it serves everyone who has difficulty with access to medical care and has no religious requirement. Now that medical students have arrived in Reading, Pennsylvania, it is our opportunity to join the members at FaithCare to bring health, hope and healing through the health care community. Medical students will assist in delivering health care services under the supervision of the physicians at the clinic and gain valuable education and spiritual renewal from fellowship with these physicians. They have pediatric, OBGYN, internal medicine and ophthalmology sub-clinics, each of which has specific preceptors. FaithCare currently meets once a month, but they are hoping to increase this as we get more medical students involved. With the clinic meeting more often, we will improve the availability of care provided to those in the Reading area.

Hope Rescue Mission Clinic (Street Medicine)

Location: Hope Rescue Mission, 645 N. 6th St., Reading, PA 19601 (View Map)

Street Medicine is a volunteer group comprising Tower Health medical providers and Drexel University College of Medicine students who provide patient care to the homeless population in Berks County, Pennsylvania, at the Hope Rescue Mission Shelter. HOP provides primary care, case management and educational resources. Patients can be seen by providers specializing in internal medicine, addiction medicine, pulmonology, podiatry and physical therapy. Students assist with the evaluation, documentation and treatment of patients with continuity of follow-up under physician supervision. Tasks students assist with include: patient interviews, basic physical examinations, and EMR documentation. In addition, students are trained to provide electrocardiogram (EKG) assessments under the direct supervision of the physicians HOP works with.

Mary’s Shelter

Location: Mary’s Shelter, 615 Kenhorst Boulevard, Reading, PA 19611 (View Map)

BFMC has collaborated with Mary’s Shelter to open a new clinic at their site. Mary’s Shelter is a temporary housing and social service agency located in Reading that works to support youth and parents through education, crisis intervention and stabilization in the community. In addition to serving under and uninsured adults weekly on Tuesday mornings, this clinic also serves the community that Mary’s Shelter works with. Student responsibilities are similar to those at the Berks Free Medical Clinic. Beyond these clinical responsibilities, students may assist with planning and hosting educational workshops for both the mothers and teenagers on various health-related topics.

Screening Eye Examination (SEE Clinic)

Location: Hope Rescue Mission, 645 N. 6th St., Reading, PA 19601 (View Map)

The HOP Mobile Screening Eye Examination (SEE) Clinic provides free eye screenings at Hope Rescue Mission and other community sites in Berks County. These examinations include tests for visual acuity, visual field, color blindness, macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinopathies, cataracts, brain tumors and neurological conditions. The breadth of pathologies detected by this clinic and the ocular health education that they provide for their patients has had a far-reaching impact on the general eye health and wellbeing of the populations they serve.