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>>USF Health Joins Hillsborough County Health Department to Assist Hurricane Katrina Victims
Tampa, FL (September 2, 2005) --
USF Health is partnering with The Hillsborough County Health Department (HCHD) to offer medical services to those families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
USF Health and HCHD will open a medical clinic on September 7, 2005, from noon to 5 p.m. at the University Area Health Center located at 13601 N. 22nd Street in Tampa. The clinic will be open every Wednesday during those times. To reach the clinic, please call (813) 307-8058.
Services available on a walk-in or appointment basis include: WIC Nutritional services, Well-child care, Pediatrics, Immunizations, Family Planning, Pre-natal, and Adult Health.
"These unfortunate families that have been dislocated by Katrina will be welcomed as temporary residents to our community," said Dr. Douglas Holt, Director of the HCHD and USF Infectious Disease Physician.
Victims and their families have already arrived in the Tampa Bay area and more are expected in the coming weeks. Most of the victims of this natural disaster will arrive without medical records, insurance and little money and will need medical care. USF Health and the HCHD are working together to assist them regardless of their ability to pay.
USF Health is partnering with The Hillsborough County Health Department (HCHD) to offer medical services to those families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
USF Health and HCHD will open a medical clinic on September 7, 2005, from noon to 5 p.m. at the University Area Health Center located at 13601 N. 22nd Street in Tampa. The clinic will be open every Wednesday during those times. To reach the clinic, please call (813) 307-8058.
Services available on a walk-in or appointment basis include: WIC Nutritional services, Well-child care, Pediatrics, Immunizations, Family Planning, Pre-natal, and Adult Health.
"These unfortunate families that have been dislocated by Katrina will be welcomed as temporary residents to our community," said Dr. Douglas Holt, Director of the HCHD and USF Infectious Disease Physician.
Victims and their families have already arrived in the Tampa Bay area and more are expected in the coming weeks. Most of the victims of this natural disaster will arrive without medical records, insurance and little money and will need medical care. USF Health and the HCHD are working together to assist them regardless of their ability to pay.
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Responding to demand from Tampa's community leaders, the University of South Florida College of Medicine was established by the Florida Legislature in 1965. Part of the USF Health Sciences Center , doctors and researchers were awarded $116.6 million in grants and contracts last year. Providing advanced medical care, USF Physicians Group at the College of Medicine is the largest doctor group in West Central Florida offering expert medical care throughout Tampa Bay's finest hospitals such as Tampa General Hospital, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Moffitt Cancer Center and All Children's Hospital. With a reputation for training high performing clinical physicians, the College is proud that more than half of its physician-graduates remain in Florida to practice medicine.