Community Involvement:

• Mobile Clinic: community outreach program
  providing pediatric care to uninsured patients
  throughout Miami Dade County where residents
  rotate during PGY2

• School Health: residents rotate through clinics
  based in local schools as PGY3s and on
  Adolescent Medicine

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Diversity:

• GME Taskforce to Enhance Diversity with resident involvement from multiple specialties

• All 6 Jackson hospitals, including Holtz, have been named LGBTQ Healthcare Equity Top performers in the Healthcare Equality Index 2020 report and have been for the past 9 years 

• White Coats for Black Lives movement supported by the residency program - see if you can spot some of our pediatric and med-peds residents and attendings protesting (particularly Tobe Ubu, Meds Peds Class of 2022!)​

 

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• Residents have previously been involved advocating for gun safety at the March for our Lives in D.C. in 2018, protesting the 3200-bed detainment center for child asylum seekers located in Homestead of asylum speakers in Homestead in 2019, and many other issues 

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COVID Response:

• Jackson has PPE supplies appropriately staffed on all floors, making it easier for residents who need PPE acutely to receive it from the floor on which they work

• to provide PPE for all residents including face shields/goggles, N-95s, and surgical masks.   

• CIR provided extra funding for PPE for residents, providing N-95s to all resident

• CIR currently advocating for hazard pay increase

• Pediatric mobile clinic is providing COVID testing in the community