Magee-Womens Hospital strives to enhance women’s health education provided to patients and to the community.
As a CoE, our community education and outreach initiatives include:

• Enhancing the provision of culturally-sensitive, linguistically-appropriate patient and community education in women’s health, including telehealth.

• The development of a community health agenda to expand women’s knowledge about their health and to increase women’s influence, including minority women, on policies that impact their health.

• Developing and maintaining linkages and partnerships with various community organizations in order to facilitate outreach and education.

 

The Center of Excellence: Womancare Programs in the Community

• Bone Health
  A resource for women to take an active role in maintaining healthy bones or for physicians managing women concerned about osteoporosis.

• Special Needs
  Through a grant from the March of Dimes, Magee launched The Social You, The Sexual You: For Families with Special Needs. This program makes it easier and more comfortable for special-needs adolescents and their families to address puberty.

• Magee’s TeenCenter
  Magee’s TeenCenter programs include the Read-Aloud Book Club for pregnant teens, the Check Yourself preventive health program and special teen pregnancy classes.

• Girls on the Run® of Magee-Womens Hospital
  This international program uses running workouts, games and educational lessons to promote physical, emotional, mental and social development for girls in grades 3 through 8. To find out more, call (412) 641-1596, or visit the website @ www.girlsontherun.org

• Fighting Spirit
  Fighting Spirit website is a collaborative effort between Magee and a group of breast cancer survivors, launched as an initiative "by survivors, for survivors." Visit the website @ www.fightingspirit.org
  

 

Womancare Education

Programs for healthy women and their families. Classes offered on site at Magee and community locations address a broad range of topics from prenatal and Lamaze classes to midlife issues and adolescence. For more information, call (412) 641-4492.