Programs

The Institute for Family Medicine has two primary services:

  • Primary care and preventive services for vulnerable children, families and the elderly
  • Healthy Kids Better Learners

More information on each program is below:

Extending primary care and preventive services

Examples include:

  • Vietnamese Clinic The Institute operates a clinic for Vietnamese speaking patients through a partnership with Catholic Charities South Side.
  • Elderly and Disabled Housing At the invitation of the St. Louis Housing Authority, the Institute has established clinical care sites to serve residents of subsidized housing. Such a clinic is now operational at the Parkview Housing Complex.
  • International Institute The International Institute helps to settle hundreds of refugees to the St. Louis area each year.  As a matter of individual and public health, these individuals need immunizations required in this country.  Language is a barrier to obtaining health care for these individuals, so the Institute for Family Medicine set up a program with the International Institute to provide immunizations to these individual at the International Institute site where translators are readily available.
  • St. Louis Crisis Nursery The St. Louis Crisis Nursery provides emergency care for children when families are dealing with a crisis. There are five Nursery locations in the greater St. Louis/St. Charles region. The Institute sees children for an admission physical and to address acute health care needs.
  • Covenant House of Missouri The St. Louis chapter of this national organization serving runaway and homeless teens looks to the Institute physicians for admission physicals, urgent health care needs, chronic disease management, and mental health screening for the individuals they serve.
  • Every Child’s Hope (formerly Evangelical Children’s Home)
  • Youth in Need   (Youth in Need’s Transitional and Crisis living for homeless teens)

Healthy Kids, Better Learners

The Healthy Kids, Better Learners program includes all school health services.  What we provide to  partner schools varies, but the goal of all school health services is to work with the school in order to keep the students healthy and in class.  A sick or absent child will not learn.

Schools and organizations with whom we currently partner include:

Current Grant Programs

Click the link above to learn more about our current grant programs

Dental Varnish Program

Click the link above to learn more about our dental varnish program.