Spring Interns Make Their Own (Remote) Marks on the VCU Health Hub at 25th
The center’s three interns have risen to the challenge of working through a global pandemic. By Jenny Pedraza This Spring semester, the Virginia Commonwealth University Health Hub at 25th is home base to three VCU interns. Two undergraduate students and one graduate student have been working on projects ranging from the center’s outreach efforts and […]
Undergraduate marketing class dishes up data collection for the Health Hub
By Jenny Pedraza If you walk in to the Virginia Commonwealth University Health Hub at 25th, one of the first things you see in the reception area is a wall of dinner plates. Blue plates, white plates, multi-colored, old, new, small, large. The display spans an entire wall, and each plate features a favorite recipe. […]
Health Hub Welcomes Community Members for Open House
The VCU Health Hub at 25th is a health education and wellness activity center that opened in May. By Jenny Pedraza Lilly Boxley, who lives in the Church Hill area in Richmond’s East End, spent part of her Saturday afternoon checking out Virginia Commonwealth University’s new Health Hub at 25th during the center’s Community Open […]
Health Hub Spotlight: Elizabeth Prom-Wormley
We Are Listening: How Community Input is Developing a Culture of Connected Wellness at the Health Hub By Jenny Pedraza In the spring of 2017, Elizabeth Prom-Wormley, assistant professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Family Medicine and Population Health in the Division of Epidemiology, was asked to serve on an executive steering committee […]
Health Hub at 25th Spotlight: Erin Stanforth
Making sustainability more accessible. By Jenny Pedraza A rack of gold bikes. That’s what would probably catch your eye as you walk down Belvidere Street near the Virginia Commonwealth University Monroe Park Campus. Those bikes are part of the RamBikes program, which provides free bicycle service, education and bike loans to the VCU community. But […]
Richmond Health and Wellness Program Expands to Health Hub
Pamela Parsons to lead new initiatives within the collaborative care model. By Jenny Pedraza Since 2012, more than 900 Virginia Commonwealth University Health students have participated in wellness clinic sessions serving vulnerable older and disabled adults living at five low-income housing settings in the Richmond metropolitan area. The Richmond Health and Wellness Program (RHWP) is […]