Celebrating 5 Years of MontCo Street Medicine

This month marked a major milestone for MontCo Street Medicine. Five years ago, Access Services and Tower Health Medical Group took bold steps to redefine community healthcare in Montgomery County. The result: a highly integrated network of partners delivering a continuity of vital healthcare services to community members experiencing homelessness. From its very inception MontCo Street Medicine has taken a partnered approach to meeting people where they are, ensuring that they have access to the highest quality healthcare, and helping them to become agents of their own health over time. HealthSpark Foundation is immensely grateful to the dedicated staff, volunteers, and partners that have made MontCo Street Medicine the innovative and award-winning model that it is today. They approach the work through a community-centered lens, respond to urgent and complex needs with compassion, and continue to adapt and iterate.  

Forged through trusted relationships built over time and committed to consistently showing up rain or shine, MontCo Street Medicine is also an active agent in shifting narrative power. Through its human-centered work, short film (linked below), and education and outreach they are transforming harmful narratives about homelessness to reflect a world they believe possible. It is a more equitable and empathetic world that perceives what Casey Fenoglio, Director of Community Engagement at Pottstown Hospital - Tower Health, understands: “When we are bringing healthcare to those experiencing homelessness, we’re bringing care to my neighbors. These are people that live in the same community I do, and so it’s extra personal being able to serve people in this way.” 

Now operating in Pottstown and Norristown, MontCo Street Medicine has plans to launch an additional program in Lansdale in the coming months.  

We’re proud to have provided an initial grant to Access Services five years ago that helped create the roadmap for MontCo Street Medicine - bringing to life a vision of community partnership and lasting system change to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. We’re honored to have continued supporting their work through additional funding in the years since.