Adding Color – Collaboration and Community Outreach
Cooperating with the community and assisting with events and programs is one of our main missions in creating a healthier community. We learn and grow as a health system by helping others.
Along with many other programs in the community, every year PHS combines our efforts with East Stroudsburg University (ESU). Events such as the Pink Light Walk, a breast cancer awareness walk beginning at ESU and ending at the Hughes Cancer Center, helps bring community members, cancer survivors, and loved ones of cancer survivors together.
PHS is also involved in the Kick Butts campaign, a service project that collaborates with ESU students and PHS employees to discard cigarettes and trash around both campuses and encourage smoking cessation.
Aiming to further help the community, PHS teamed up with ESU this past March to begin a health coaching program. Jonathan Golder, DO, approached ESU with this program that aims to improve the lives of patients and curb readmissions by training a select group of volunteer students to act as health coaches.
ESU students – many of who are going on to health science careers – visit the patients in their homes to help them follow their doctor's advice.
VIDEO: Jonathan Goldner, DO, Chief Medical Executive Medicine & Chronic Disease Service Line discusses the health coach program at ESU.
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