Rebecca Onie of HealthLeads accepting her 2011 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship скачать в хорошем качестве

Rebecca Onie of HealthLeads accepting her 2011 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship

Rebecca Onie founded Health Leads (formerly Project HEALTH) with Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Chair of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, to expand the capacity of clinics to connect patients with food, housing and other resources that they need to be healthy and to build a pipeline of new leaders in the health care system. In the clinics where Health Leads operates, doctors can "prescribe" these critical resources just as they would medication. Patients take their prescriptions to the clinic waiting room, where Health Leads' college volunteers connect them to the necessary resources. In 2010, 57 percent of Health Leads' patients obtained at least one resource in 90 days (e.g., a family with an asthmatic child needs help getting heat in the winter) and 83 percent of volunteer graduates entered jobs or advanced study in the fields of health and poverty