Jornada de Salud (formerly Portal de Salud) is an Emory SOM student-run clinic that provides health screenings and health education to members of the Spanish speaking community in Gwinnett County. We partner with Misión Católica de Nuestra Señora de las Américas in Lilburn, Georgia to assist the parish’s 29,000 Hispanic/Latinx members. The mission of Jornada de Salud is to help Hispanic/Latino families live healthier lives by promoting health education and improving access to primary care and preventive care services. Notably, we are also the only longitudinal, interprofessional, fully Spanish speaking student clinic at the School of Medicine. In addition to serving this community, Jornada de Salud is a unique experiential learning opportunity for MD and PA students to work alongside each other throughout the year.
We are fundraising to purchase supplies to run our clinic! Specifically, we are always in need of test strips to run glucose, lipids, and hemoglobin A1c so we can counsel patients on their diabetes and heart disease risk. While we have the generous support of the School of Medicine to buy dinner for our student volunteers, we are unable to purchase single-use supplies and clinic supplies with our existing funding sources. We rely on generous donors to help us keep this clinic running!
