By Jonathan Lai, Inquirer Staff Writer
In a holistic effort to address some medical needs in Camden, students from Rutgers-Camden and Rowan University will provide health care alongside legal services in a new medical-legal partnership.
The Rowan University/Rutgers-Camden Board of Governors authorized $25,000 in seed money for the program during its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Students at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University already provide care through student-run clinics. Rutgers-Camden law, nursing, and social-work students will join the Rowan students, alongside faculty from both universities and staff from the Camden Coalition of Health Care Providers, to help Camden residents with health-care needs beyond direct medical assistance.
“For instance, you might have a child who has asthma and who’s living in an apartment that has mold in it, and the landlord has an obligation to abate the mold but hasn’t been doing it,” Kimberly Mutcherson, a Rutgers-Camden law professor who is helping develop the program, said.
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