NEXT DOOR PEDIATRICS
Next Door Pediatrics is full-service private pediatric clinic operated by Children’s Health Systems and located on-site at Next Door. As a community clinic, Next Door Pediatrics serves not only the children at Next Door, but also children from the surrounding area. The clinic provides a 24-hour call line for emergencies and hospital care for patients, when needed. Dr. Patricia Safavi M.D., a board certified pediatric physician, runs the clinic. Because she is the only pediatric doctor in the Metcalfe Park neighborhood and the zip code area, Dr. Safavi provides medical services that are critical and essential for the well-being of families in the community. These services also play a role in holding down health care costs by reducing unnecessary visits to emergency rooms. Established at Next Door in 1998, Next Door Pediatrics completed a renovation in 2007 which doubled both the physical size of the clinic and patient capacity.The clinic objectives are to: attend to the community’s health care needs in a low-income neighborhood; increase access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care for medically underserved children; and educate children and families about health careFor more information, call 414/264-5338 or visit the Next Door Pediatrics website.
Next Door Pediatrics is full-service private pediatric clinic operated by Children’s Health Systems and located on-site at Next Door. As a community clinic, Next Door Pediatrics serves not only the children at Next Door, but also children from the surrounding area. The clinic provides a 24-hour call line for emergencies and hospital care for patients, when needed.
Dr. Patricia Safavi M.D., a board certified pediatric physician, runs the clinic. Because she is the only pediatric doctor in the Metcalfe Park neighborhood and the zip code area, Dr. Safavi provides medical services that are critical and essential for the well-being of families in the community. These services also play a role in holding down health care costs by reducing unnecessary visits to emergency rooms.
Established at Next Door in 1998, Next Door Pediatrics completed a renovation in 2007 which doubled both the physical size of the clinic and patient capacity.
The clinic objectives are to: attend to the community’s health care needs in a low-income neighborhood; increase access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care for medically underserved children; and educate children and families about health care
For more information, call 414/264-5338 or visit the Next Door Pediatrics website.
LIFETIME LEARNERS
The Lifetime Learners program aims to bring higher education, practical job skills and hope to working adults. Founded in 2000, the Lifetime Learners program is an on-site partnership that allows working adults to earn associate's degrees in business through Cardinal Stritch University’s College of Business. Students in the program take classes two nights a week. Free on-site child care is available. For more information, call Lifetime Learners at 414/562-4001 or visit the Lifetime Learners website.
The Lifetime Learners program aims to bring higher education, practical job skills and hope to working adults.
Founded in 2000, the Lifetime Learners program is an on-site partnership that allows working adults to earn associate's degrees in business through Cardinal Stritch University’s College of Business.
Students in the program take classes two nights a week. Free on-site child care is available.
For more information, call Lifetime Learners at 414/562-4001 or visit the Lifetime Learners website.
CHIMC - Children’s Health in Metcalfe Park and Concordia
CHIMC is a community-based research project in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin and Neighborhood House. This collaborative project aims to identify and address the main health care issues in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park and Concordia neighborhoods. CHIMC Vision: All children in Metcalfe Park and Concordia communities will be healthy in mind, body, and spirit.CHIMC Mission: To transform and empower our communities through knowledge, resources, and shared learning.CHIMC Goal: To establish and address, through community input, the main health concern for neighborhood children, ages birth to 18. During this process, CHIMC hopes to create a successful model of Commuity Based Participatory Research (CBPR).For more information, contact CHIMC at 414/562-2929, ext 202.
CHIMC is a community-based research project in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin and Neighborhood House. This collaborative project aims to identify and address the main health care issues in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park and Concordia neighborhoods.
CHIMC Vision: All children in Metcalfe Park and Concordia communities will be healthy in mind, body, and spirit.CHIMC Mission: To transform and empower our communities through knowledge, resources, and shared learning.CHIMC Goal: To establish and address, through community input, the main health concern for neighborhood children, ages birth to 18. During this process, CHIMC hopes to create a successful model of Commuity Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
CHIMC Vision: All children in Metcalfe Park and Concordia communities will be healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
CHIMC Mission: To transform and empower our communities through knowledge, resources, and shared learning.
CHIMC Goal: To establish and address, through community input, the main health concern for neighborhood children, ages birth to 18. During this process, CHIMC hopes to create a successful model of Commuity Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
For more information, contact CHIMC at 414/562-2929, ext 202.
MULTI-DIMENSIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECT (MDEP)
The Medical College of Wisconsin focuses on excellence in creating new approaches toward patient care and developing effective educational programs for its students, residents, fellows and faculty. Faculty and residents participate in all aspects of advancing knowledge to benefit children. MDEP seeks to provide training for residents about addressing health disparities of underserved children in medical practice.