In The Community
Since 1922 the Miami Rescue Mission | Broward Outreach Centers, The Caring Place, has served the homeless and needy of South Florida. Our Broward Outreach Centers were first established in 1992. Our Miami-Dade and Broward Centers serve over 1,300 men, women, and children each day. There are approximately 800 people enrolled in our residential life-changing programs. At the heart of these decades of serving those in the greatest need are our core values. The Miami Rescue Mission Clinic is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The Miami Rescue Mission Clinic is a free clinic of choice for our homeless, for the destitute, uninsured, under-insured community. The program runs three clinics, including in Wynwood, Hollywood, and Doral. They provide primary care, psychiatric care, as well as addiction medicine management.
The Center for Haitian Studies, Health, and Human Services, Inc. (CHS) is a duly registered Florida non-profit Corporation which provides health and social services to the underserved populations of Miami-Dade County. In addition to providing primary health care services, The Center for Haitian Studies, Health and Human Services (CHS) provides health education, research, community outreach services and medical education. CHS participates in community activities which include crime prevention, literacy, case management, cultural projects, counseling and referral services for new immigrants who arrived in South Florida in the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. The Center for Haitian Studies experience will allow the resident to further develop the skills necessary to provide effective care in a community practice setting that provides care to low income persons in Miami/Dade County. Residents will have the opportunity to perform focused histories and physicals for common acute and chronic ambulatory conditions. In addition to providing clinical care, our residents deliver a Pediatric Core Didactic Curriculum to rotating students one half day per week.
Pediatric Mobile Clinic
The Pediatric Mobile Clinic delivers health care to under-privileged children throughout Miami-Dade County. It maintains a regular schedule allowing for continuity. Resident participation during the Community Pediatrics experience provides exposure to health related problems and situations not usually encountered at the medical center.
The IDEA exchange is the only needle exchange in the state of Florida. Founded and directed by Dr. Tookes, one of our Internal Medicine attendings at Jackson, IDEA exchange not only provides new syringes in exchange for used ones, it also provides other harm reduction services to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases, including through anonymous HIV and Hep C testing, safe injection kits, overdose prevention, and referrals for rehabilitation and treatment. Med-Peds rotate through the IDEA exchange during their third year Urban Health rotation.
Updated 7/16/24