General Social Service: Philadelphia

Publication Date: January 1914

Publisher:

Author(s): Leo Stern

Research Area: Health; Social conditions

Keywords: Communal Organization; Health; Social Services

Type: Newsletter

Coverage: Pennsylvania United States

Abstract:

This article explains the creation and the structure of Philadelphia's General Social Service Bureau, which does all the Jewish medical social service of the city, both for Jewish hospitals and for Jewish patients in non-Jewish hospitals. The Bureau facilitates information sharing so that hospitals can know when more than one of them is treating the same patient or family, helps direct patients to the medical services most suited to their needs, and administers to social and economic needs in a way that can have a preventive health function.

In Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities 1913-1914, Baltimore, Vol.IV:6, ed. Lee F. Frankel.