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Summer
Partnership a Success
Special to The Truth
Mercy Health participated
in a first of its kind “Summer Kids Program’ in partnership
with The Mareda Center and the Wayman-Palmer YMCA this
summer to help reduce summer learning loss and promote
health in the central city community surrounding Mercy
Health – St. Vincent Medical Center.
This six-week program was
the first time that three organizations came together for
the benefit of the children living in the surrounding
neighborhood. The concept was created by Allisan Perz,
director of The Mareda Center and Linda Bert, practice
administrator for Mercy Health Physicians along with Eric
Williams of the Wayman-Palmer YMCA. This collaborative
partnership formed as a result of shared visions on ways to
help neighborhood children by creating a fun and meaningful
summer experience.
Pat Ricard, practice
manager for the internal medicine resident site and Renice
Allen, practice manager for the pediatric resident site at
Mercy Health led this six-week program in the Community
Resource Room at the Mercy Health Franklin Avenue Medical
Center. As many as 20 children joined in twice weekly
sessions to learn about combatting germs, safety in the
kitchen, recycling, where food comes from, teamwork on an
obstacle course, getting immunizations, and wound care.
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