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.
Med-Peds Urban Health Rotation
This 2-week rotation course is a unique ambulatory experience that trains resident physicians to manage the psychosocial and medical needs of the urban primary care patients. The rotation aims to expose residents to various clinical experiences in the community, including the IDEA needle exchange clinic, AA, psychiatry, human rights clinic, primary care counseling, and addiction medicine.
Serving the South Florida community since 1960, Camillus House is a non-profit organization that provides a full continuum of services that includes food, shelter, housing, rehabilitative treatment, and health care to men, women and children who are poor and homeless.
Founded in 1984, Camillus Health Concern, Inc. (CHC) has been a leader in providing primary health care services to persons who are homeless or have low income in Miami-Dade County. Opened in June of 1998, the state-of-the art health center offers persons who are homeless the opportunity to receive quality care in a professional and comfortable setting. Our residents rotate at CHC in their 3rd year under the supervision of Dr. Jim Torres (Med-Peds, USF- Tampa).
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.
Updated 7/16/23