Community Engagement

Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers are proud to be homes to outreach programs that educate and improve our communities in The Bronx and beyond. Our residents are heavily involved with educating and helping patients and families through these programs!

 

Mentoring in Medicine

Founded and led by our own Dr. Lynne Holden, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Montefiore – Moses and graduate of the Class of 1995, Mentoring in Medicine is a non-profit organization that introduces, educates, and empowers disadvantaged and low-income students through careers in medicine. Over a dozen of our current residents were past participants in this program, whether it was during elementary, middle, or high school – in fact, some of them have said that without Mentoring in Medicine, they would have never discovered a career in Emergency Medicine! Through her team’s hard work, the program is now active nationwide from our home in The Bronx, all the way up to Alaska!

 

Stand Up to Violence

As a Level 1 Trauma Center, Jacobi treats a very high volume of patients who are victims of violent traumas. Stand Up to Violence was founded as a hospital-based violence prevention program to reduce rates of retaliation, provide resources to victims and their families, and improve health outcomes in our community. The current Medical Director is Dr. Noé Romo, a pediatric hospitalist at Jacobi Medical Center and a graduate of the Class of 2012 from from its Pediatrics Residency Program.