Philadelphia joins Bloomberg Philanthropies’ first-of-its-kind initiative that connects students to job opportunities with family-sustaining wages in 10 communities across the U.S.

The nation’s largest regional collaboration of health systems is kicking off the year with a public service campaign that encourages a community approach to protecting children from unlocked guns.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced today that it has received $150,000 in funding from TD Bank to support and expand the hospital’s Medical Financial Partnership (MFP).

Healthcare worker, Mom, Daughter, cancer survivor, and an inspiration – Charmane Braxton is the epitome of giving back.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has received a $300,000 grant from Rite Aid Healthy Futures to expand the impact of Healthier Together programs focused on healthy food access. Healthier Together will partner with the Garden at the Nicolas and Athena Karabots Pediatric Care Center in West Philadelphia, Medical Financial Partnership and Family Justice Partnership.

The innovative Food as Medicine program bring food and nutrition education to families facing food instability.

 In an abstract presented at AHA, researchers found Black children are more than four times as likely to experience cardiac arrest and have significantly worse survival outcomes.

Since 2002, Youth Heart Watch (YHW), an affiliate of Project ADAMÒ, has been a resource for the community to help prevent sudden cardiac death (SCD) in children and adolescents across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

Spurred by seeing the overwhelming need during the pandemic, ER clinicians founded Family Connects to help families with needs like food and diapers.

Neighborhood socioeconomic status and travel time to driving schools significantly impacted access to driver training and getting licensed.