UMB’s initiative to bridge the rural health care gap starts in middle school and extends through graduate health care education.
UMB’s initiative to bridge the rural health care gap starts in middle school and extends through graduate health care education.
EMBRACE operates across four interconnected areas — programming, academics/scholarship, research/evaluation, and collective impact.
Building on years of community partnership, Kyla Liggett-Creel leads UMB’s EMBRACE Initiative as executive director.
UMB celebrates a decade of connection, collaboration, and community in West Baltimore.
The exhibition was the culmination of a study conducted by the School of Social Work and Maryland Carey Law’s Erin Levitas Initiative for Sexual Violence Prevention.
The unique program immerses final-semester Bachelor of Science in Nursing students in the real-world environment of post-acute and long-term care at the Baltimore center.
The Physician Assistant Leadership and Learning Academy is building a statewide infrastructure to help ensure a strong pipeline of providers for Maryland’s health care system and beyond.
Students will have didactic and mentoring sessions in Baltimore followed by research and clinical experiences on the Eastern Shore.
The program will focus on building partnerships with key population groups such as Black communities.
The clinic offers free extractions and fillings to adults ages 18 and older who lack access to regular dental care.
As farms diversify to survive, the legal definitions of agriculture are being pushed and tested like never before.
The School of Social Work’s arm of the citywide initiative has grown to support the well-being of the men who help raise children.
The program identifies Medicaid patients 60 and older who need full or partial dentures, bills the state plan for covered procedures, and draws upon a Delta Dental Community Care Foundation grant for the balance.
It is part of a larger effort to work in partnership with the West Baltimore community to develop and implement health care delivery based on neighborhood needs and improve patient access to health care.
The initiative aims to enhance community-based cancer screening and early detection, leading to earlier diagnosis and more treatment options for patients.
Five-year, $5 million grant aims to expand on the success of the original program.
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