Health & Wellness
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Wawa Coffee & Care Cart Brings Comfort to CHOP Staff and Families for Nearly 30 Years
For nearly three decades, a coffee cart has been quietly working its way through the halls of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, offering something far simpler than medicine and, in many moments, just as needed. The Wawa Coffee & Care Cart has spent about 30 years serving up smiles at CHOP at its Philadelphia Campus and, more recently, at its King…
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Delaware County Launches Wellness on Wheels Mobile Health Clinic to Aid Underserved Communities
Delaware County is taking its health services on the road, literally. Health leaders are launching Wellness on Wheels, a 33-foot RV retrofitted as a traveling medical clinic designed to bring basic care directly to residents who need it most, reports Sarah Gantz for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The mobile unit will offer vaccines, blood pressure checks, prostate cancer…
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Chadds Ford Teen Helps Pave the Way for First Needle-Free Insulin Approved for Kids with Diabetes
For most kids, managing a busy schedule of sports and school is just part of growing up. For Greg Stanoch of Chadds Ford, it also meant multiple insulin injections every single day. “It’s really hard for me to say this, but I couldn’t really be a kid,” the 15-year-old said. “It was a lot of…
























