[NEWS] N. Phila. health center to be one-stop resource
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:Â
Just three days before its grand opening, the Stephen Klein Wellness Center had patients sitting in the waiting room even as workmen washed the windows and scraped the last bits of tape off the high ceiling with a pole.
"It's a little crazy getting ready," Monica Medina McCurdy of Project HOME said Friday morning. She and everyone involved with the Wellness Center had plenty to do before Monday's grand opening: They had to turn a brand-new, one-story, 28,000-square-foot building into one-stop shopping for low-income and homeless patients in one of North Philadelphia's poorest regions.
When it opens next week, the center will offer medical and behavioral health treatment and much more: showers, laundry facilities, legal services, and an emergency food pantry.
