Brown and White Vol. 135 no. 9

              The Brown and White Vol. 135 No. 9
Friday, October 5, 2018 ‘All the Lehigh News First’
Students contribute as coordinators in free clinic
Political science welcomes new department chair
A group of Lehigh students
will begin to volunteer at the
H.E.A.R.T.S.Link program at the
Fowler Community Center on Oct.
6.
H.E.A.R.T.S.Link — Health,
Education, Advocacy and
Resources at Temple-St. Luke’s —
is a student-run free clinic estab-lished
in 2012 to help uninsured
families get the medical help they
need. Michelle Wagner, the coordi-nator
of the clinic, said there are
eight Lehigh student volunteers in
each clinic year-round.
Their tasks include performing
health assessments on patients
and following up with them after
their appointments at the clinic.
On top of its work with Lehigh,
Wagner said the clinic has partner-ships
with St. Luke’s Department of
Community Health and Preventive
Medicine, Temple University, the
Bethlehem Health Bureau and
Bethlehem Area School District.
The clinic also hosts medical
student volunteers and regular
staff volunteers. Wagner estimat-ed
each clinic location typically has
a total of 10-20 volunteers.
“There’s this unique learn-ing
experience that occurs at the
H.E.A.R.T.S.Link clinic,” Wagner
said. “We are teaching more clin-ically-
oriented students about
public health and the different
barriers that patients face at the
intersection of public health and
medicine.”
Wagner said H.E.A.R.T.S.Link
aims to train future physicians
to be more public health-oriented,
which she believes will serve the
general population more effective-ly.
Alanna Lynch, ’20, believes vol-unteering
at the clinic will benefit
Courtesy of Google Maps
The H.E.A.R.T.S. Clinic has recently moved from Broughal Middle School to the Fowler Family Center, located on East Fourth
Street. The new location provides greater access to South Bethlehem residents.
By MASSIEL CHECO
Assistant News Editor
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