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{{toplink|url=https://www.projecthome.org/stephen-klein-wellness-center|name=projecthome.org/stephen-klein-wellness-center}}[[File:Stephen_Klein_Wellness_Center.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Stephen Klein Wellness Center]]The 28,000 square-foot '''Stephen Klein Wellness Center''' (SKWC) greatly expands Project HOME's capacity to serve more people, as well as add new services, providing a sorely needed health home for homeless men, women,and children, and residents in an area where half of the people live in poverty and almost a third in extreme poverty.


The 28,000 square-foot '''Stephen Klein Wellness Center (SKWC)''', a program of [[Project HOME]], "offers primary medical care, psychiatric services, nurse care management, individual, couples and group counseling, peer-led outreach and care coordination, healing touch, on-site legal counseling, and assistance with applying for health insurance benefits."
The Stephen Klein Wellness Center is committed to '''addressing the health and wellness needs of people who are currently homeless, formerly homeless, and people living in our North Philadelphia community'''. Stephen Klein Wellness Center offers primary medical care, psychiatric services, nurse care management, individual, couples and group counseling, peer-led outreach and care coordination, healing touch, on-site legal counseling, and assistance with applying for health insurance benefits.


On August 8, 2015, the SKWC opened a pharmacy. Not a commercial business, it was funded by a $250,000 grant from the Chesterbrook-based Amerisource Bergen Foundation. The pharmacy was the foundation’s first beneficiary.  
''Note:''  The above descriptive information came from the program's [http://projecthome.org/skwc home page].


==In The News==
*[http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/08/08/new-pharmacy-opens-in-project-homes-north-phila-wellness-center/ New Pharmacy Opens In Project Home’s North Phila. Wellness Center], CBS Philly, August 8, 2015.


== Info  ==
==See Also==
*[[Project HOME]]


2144 Cecil B. Moore Avenue <br>Philadelphia, PA 19121 <br>215-320-6187
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[http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/08/08/new-pharmacy-opens-in-project-homes-north-phila-wellness-center/ New Pharmacy Opens In Project Home’s North Phila. Wellness Center] by CBS Philly, August 8, 2015.
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Stephen Klein Wellness Center

The 28,000 square-foot Stephen Klein Wellness Center (SKWC) greatly expands Project HOME's capacity to serve more people, as well as add new services, providing a sorely needed health home for homeless men, women,and children, and residents in an area where half of the people live in poverty and almost a third in extreme poverty.

The Stephen Klein Wellness Center is committed to addressing the health and wellness needs of people who are currently homeless, formerly homeless, and people living in our North Philadelphia community. Stephen Klein Wellness Center offers primary medical care, psychiatric services, nurse care management, individual, couples and group counseling, peer-led outreach and care coordination, healing touch, on-site legal counseling, and assistance with applying for health insurance benefits.

Note:  The above descriptive information came from the program's home page.

In The News

See Also