The Community Wellness HUB offers free health and wellness programming and disease prevention education that address the top health needs of the Mantua and Powelton Village residents.

• Chronic diseases: Heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, asthma and cancer
• Behavioral/mental health: Depression, anxiety, emotional pain, domestic or child abuse
• Sexual health: HIV and STI screening, treatment and counseling and other sexual health issues across the lifespan
• Access to healthy foods: Nutrition and healthy food programs, how to get healthy food in a food desert, cooking demonstrations, gardening and vegetable trucks
• Environmental health: Safe and healthy homes, rodents, trash and aging in place
• Access to care: Need for health services in the community, culturally appropriate and sensitive care
• Access to safe physical fitness: Need for safe places to walk, programs for seniors and physical fitness programs across the lifespan

Our staff facilitate trust and support in relationships by fostering a unique sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity, while carefully considering external and social influences on the relationships. We believe that caring for physical and mental health leads to the achievement of optimal health.

Mission:
The Community Wellness HUB’s mission it to improve health, health equity and quality of life among the residents of Mantua and Powelton Village by utilizing the Collaborative Care Model to advance civic engagement through community partnership and a focus on education, screening, referrals and counseling with clinical treatment for the uninsured.

The HUB will accomplish this mission through partnerships with the community to provide caring, welcoming, nonjudgmental, interdisciplinary/interprofessional health programs and services to the residents of Mantua and Powelton Village which will reflect the social determinants of health. The HUB strives to create a respectful environment in which students, faculty, health care professionals, patients and community members can learn ways to work together to address community factors and cultural barriers that affect health and the strategies to improve health status.

Goals:

1. Provide health promotion and disease prevention education programs, screening, referral programs that addresses the residents of Mantua and Powelton Village’s top health needs, and treatment for those who are uninsured.
2. Create a sustainable community-driven, multidisciplinary, inter-professional health and wellness program that introduces Drexel students, faculty and staff to the collaborative care model and its practical application designed to improve the resident’s health outcomes.
3. Explore the social determinants of the health of this community and use it to design programs to promote health and reduce health disparities.
4. Drive a partnership involving community residents, Drexel University colleges, faculty and students and Promise Zone health program partners, community and civic associations and neighborhood churches.
5. Position the Wellness HUB as a central site for community residents’ preventative health care issues. 
6. Become a research hub and generate new innovative and technologically driven community health research questions in partnership with the community.
7. Facilitate ways to better understand environmental, social and health issues affecting community residents in their homes, and design, pilot and provide long-term sustainable solutions.
8. Improve workforce development by creating health training, job placement and community health engagement programs.

Objectives:

1. Decrease the health disparities and chronic diseases among residents in the Mantua and Powelton Village communities.
2. Improve health statistics and outcomes of Wellness HUB participants.
3. Increase the identification and improve early detection of health issues, including mental health issues.
4. Increase residents’ behaviors to promote their health and prevent chronic diseases, including healthy eating, physical fitness behaviors, HIV/STDs, violence, etc.
5. Increase early identification and treatment of environmental home issues that impact various health issues, while promoting strategies for aging in place and creating healthy and safe homes.
6. Increase health related training programs for community residents and churches.
7. Foster mutually beneficial partnerships among Drexel faculty, students and community residents.

Community Health, Outreach and Partnerships

We welcome opportunities to develop community and stakeholder partnerships in an effort to design new programs, to promote the health of the residents, of the Mantua and Powelton Village communities.

The HUB is designed to create a respectful, warm, inviting and engaging environment. At the HUB, community members, students, faculty and health care professionals work together to address community factors impacting health and create strategies to improve health, health equity and quality of life among Mantua, Powelton Village and other residents of West Philadelphia and beyond.

Services include:

• Health education, awareness and prevention workshops
• Health screenings for cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, height, weight and BMI
• Health/disease management counseling
• Behavioral health counseling services for individuals, couples and families
• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and HIV
• Healthy cooking demonstrations
• Mind and body workshops
• Dance classes
• Creative Arts Therapies (art, dance/movement and music)
• Referral services
• Case management
• Clinical treatment for uninsured residents

Health Intake and Program Service Process

The difference between the Community Wellness HUB and other clinics is the fact that the HUB focuses its efforts on preventative care. Through a three step process that provides the five types of programs, the Community Wellness HUB will help improve the overall health of community residents.

Staffing

Services provided at the Community Wellness HUB will be staffed by volunteers from Drexel University, including the medical director and licensed health care professionals, (nurse practitioners, physician assistants, counselors, therapist, physical therapist, physicians and students from a variety of disciplines and stages of their academic and clinical formation. All students and other unlicensed volunteers will be supervised by their clinical faculty instructor and by the Medical Director/ Clinical Supervisor who is responsible for the clinical services at the Wellness Hub. Paid staff will include a full-time Medical Assistant/Receptionist and part-time Director/Case Manager. With limited staffing the pilot will look to serve about 10-15 clients a day. In Year 2 the Director will become full-time and we will hire a part-time nurse practitioner.

Our staff facilitate trust and support in relationships by fostering a unique sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity, while carefully considering external and social influences on the relationships. We believe that caring for physical and mental health leads to the achievement of optimal health.

How do I schedule an appointment?

Call: 215.571.3241

Email: wellnesshub@drexel.edu

Hours of Operation
Tuesdays - Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Located at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
3509 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Carriage House – second floor

What if I don’t have insurance?

You can still see one of our Clinicians.

What other social services do you provide?

• Referral assessments and information
• Community resources
• Educational programs

COVID-19 Testing and Vaccinations

Free COVID-19 Testing and Vaccinations (Pfizer vaccine) are offered at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnership, at 3509 Spring Garden St., every Thursday from 1-4 p.m. No appointment is needed, and walk-ups are welcomed. However, appointments can be made at http://bit.ly/dornsifevax.