Penn State Health has announced that Penn State College of Medicine in Derry Township has received a $2.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The new funding will support a new street medicine program serving the unsheltered populations in both urban and rural areas in south central Pennsylvania.
Through the program, healthcare providers will go to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness where they live — whether that’s an encampment underneath a bridge, on the street, or at another location. With their permission, street medicine teams will provide primary care within that setting…