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SERVING OUR COMMUNITY
Social Emergency Medicine
The mission of the Maimonides Social Emergency Medicine Division is to provide outreach to communities beyond the walls of our Emergency Department by protecting vulnerable populations, identifying health resource-poor communities, and determining sources of health inequity and socioeconomic drivers of disease.
Current Projects
Management of High-Resource Utilizing Patients
Participate in an interdisciplinary team to create care plans, both in the emergency department and outpatient settings, to address chronic health issues of patients who frequent the emergency department.
Daily care coordination daily between Departments (Psych, Social Work, Care Management) and handling acute crises.
Treatment of Homeless Patients on Individual and Population Levels
Inter-institutional meetings with relevant stakeholders to discuss local populations of homeless patients frequently seen in Brooklyn EDs.
Bimonthly interdisciplinary meetings with Social Workers and clinicians from local hospitals to strategize and coordinate care for this demographic, annual meetings with NYC Dept of Homeless Services.
Identification and Treatment of Trafficked Patients
Work in an interdisciplinary capacity to identify and assist trafficked patients, raise awareness via hospital-wide events, and provide updates on issues relevant to sex/work trafficking.
Development of a Maimonides Medical Center policy and implementation of specialized training modules and in-service training for health care workers/ED staff on Trafficked Patient Protocols.
Voter Registration
Provide information and access to support voter registration for patients and other emergency department visitors.
Department-wide initiative to increase voting accessibility to patients.
Intercultural Projects
Global/Rural Health: Establish teaching and clinical practices in heterogeneous settings (international, urban, and rural) geared towards supporting local self-sufficiency and ongoing maintenance of clinical standards.
Rural Medicine elective in development.
PGY3 project-based elective that allows residents to rotate in an international setting, applying a rigorous academic approach to clinical work.
Residents have rotated in Europe, Central and South Americas, Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
Community Outreach
An annual 5k run or walk gives proceeds to CAMBA, a Brooklyn-based charity providing services including education and youth programs, family support services, housing and homelessness prevention programs, legal services, workforce development, and a food pantry.
Turkey Trot
Residents volunteer to teach and mentor local children as part of the Family Health Challenge, an 8-week program focusing on obesity prevention and mitigation.
Family Health Challenge
The Department of Emergency Medicine created and hosts a volunteer program for local high school and college students. They volunteer in the ED and participate in numerous educational sessions with various health care professionals to learn about different careers in health care.
Health Scholars Program
Projects in Development
Work with the International Rescue Committee to provide recent refugees office/clerical skills as well as mentorship in our ED to augment their ability to find full-time work.