— Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Celebrates the Launch of Medical Services in the Community —
The Franciscan Center, a nonprofit ministry, with its medical partner MedStar Health, unveiled today its new Mobile Health Center with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Monday, October 28. The Franciscan Center now serves as one of four community partner sites for the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center – North Baltimore. The Mobile Health Center has clinic hours at the Franciscan Center on Mondays from 10 am – 4pm.
The Mobile Health Center offers medical services including primary care, urgent care, mental health, wound car, HIV and Hepatitis C testing, STI screenings, women’s health, chronic disease management, cancer screenings, vaccines, and suboxone. Walk-ins are accepted but appointments are encouraged. No medical insurance is necessary for a visit at the Mobile Health Center.
“MedStar Health has been serving the Baltimore community for 170 years, and today we are honored to join our partners at the Franciscan Center to launch this site location for our Mobile Health Center,” said Thomas J. Senker, FACHE, president of MedStar Good Samaritan and MedStar Health Union Memorial Hospitals, and senior vice-president of MedStar Health. “We understand the needs of our community, and with the help of the Franciscan Center, we can ensure greater access to care for the families and communities we serve.”
MedStar Health and Franciscan Center staff, Board Members, supporters and friends gather at the Ribbon Cutting ceremony of the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center – North Baltimore located at the Franciscan Center. Sabrinia Gay, Director of Responsive Services, Franciscan Center welcomes guests.
Jeff Griffin, Executive Director, Franciscan Center, shares his appreciation for the partnership with MedStar Health for this opportunity to offer healthcare resources to the individuals and families in the community.
Lucas Carlson, Medical Director, MedStar Health, explains how the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center will be a health resource to the community.
Ribbon cutting ceremony at the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center – North Baltimore at the Franciscan Center.
L to R: Stanley Zheng, Regional Program Manager, Mobile Health Center, MedStar Health
Sabrinia Gay, Director of Responsive Services, Franciscan Center
Angela Hall, Assistant Executive Director, Franciscan Center
Jeff Griffin, Executive Director, Franciscan Center
Thomas Senker (TJ), President, Union Memorial/Good Samaritan, MedStar Health
Thomas Senker (TJ), President, Union Memorial/Good Samaritan, MedStar Health, shares his excitement about the new site location for the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center at the Franciscan Center. TJ shared how this resource will advance healthcare for those in the community.
Franciscan Center executives stop and pose for a photo in front of the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center that will be stationed at the Franciscan Center every Monday.
L to R: Chef Derrick Purcell, Culinary Director, Dignity Plates Culinary Training Academy, Franciscan Center
Angela Hall, Assistant Executive Director, Franciscan Center
Jeff Griffin, Executive Director, Franciscan Center
Sabrinia Gay, Director of Responsive Services, Franciscan Center
Franciscan Center and MedStar Health executives, Board Members, and partners celebrate the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center that will be stationed at the Franciscan Center every Monday.
L to R: Chef Derrick Purcell, Culinary Director, Dignity Plates Culinary Training Academy, Franciscan Center
Danielle Adams, Principal, Dallas F. Nicholas Sr. Elementary School
Angela Hall, Assistant Executive Director, Franciscan Center
Jeff Griffin, Executive Director, Franciscan Center
Ashley Wallace, Deputy Director, Central Baltimore Partnership
Sabrinia Gay, Director of Responsive Services, Franciscan Center
Lucas Carlson, Medical Director, MedStar Health
Frank Knott, Founder, Director, Innovation Works Baltimore
“At the Franciscan Center, our goal is to be a haven for our clients where they can be fulfilled physically, mentally, and spiritually. We provide warm nutrious meals, responsive services, and hope and dignity. However, we knew something was missing. We wanted and needed to provide quality healthcare for all families in our community,“ said Jeff Griffin, Executive Director, Franciscan Center. “We couldn’t do it alone, and MedStar Health showed up. With this partnership, we can overcome the healthcare challenge, and bring resources to them directly.“
The Mobile Health Center – North Baltimore is stationed at three additional sites from Tuesday-Thursday at Community Assistance Network, Govans Farmers’ Market and St. Stephens AME Church. MedStar Health offers a second Mobile Health Center for South Baltimore communities at four locations.
The Franciscan Center is a nonprofit ministry. The mission of the Franciscan Center is to provide emergency assistance and supportive outreach to persons who are economically disadvantaged in an effort to assist them in realizing their self-worth and dignity as people of God. The nonprofit offers a continuum of care that includes food, clothing, emergency health services, counseling, and technology training to help clients become as self-sufficient as possible. The center is now a partner site for the MedStar Health Mobile Health Center on Mondays.
The Center’s Culinary Services offer a pantry program, and a hot lunch program, which feeds roughly 400-600 people daily at its W. 23rd Street location and local homeless encampments. The Franciscan Center serves 99% of scratch food. The food cooked and served is fresh and healthy, with produce and proteins coming from its own farm Little Portion Farm at the Shrine of St. Anthony, First Fruits Farm, and other local farms.
Additionally, the Center offers the Dignity Plates Culinary Training Academy, a 13-week program – zero-cost culinary workforce training program. To learn more about the Franciscan Center’s services, visit www.fcbmore.org.
About MedStar Health
At MedStar Health, we use the best of our minds and the best of our hearts to serve our patients, those who care for them, and our communities. Our 30,000 associates and 4,700 affiliated physicians are committed to living this promise through our core SPIRIT values—Service, Patient first, Integrity, Respect, Innovation, and Teamwork—across our more than 300 locations including 10 hospitals, ambulatory, and urgent care centers. As the medical education and clinical partner of Georgetown University, MedStar Health is training future physician leaders to care for the whole person and is advancing care through the MedStar Health Research Institute. From our telemedicine and urgent care services to the region’s largest home health agency, we’re committed to providing high-quality health care that’s also easy and convenient for our patients. At MedStar Health—It’s how we treat people. Learn more at MedStarHealth.org.
