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From Ascribe Newsfeed: The Community-Campus Partnership for Health (CCPH) has honored the partnership between the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Decatur, Ohio Community Association as the recipient of the 7th annual CCPH Award. The Award, announced last month at the third Community-University Exposition in Victoria, B.C., Canada, recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that build on each other's strengths to improve higher education, civic engagement, and the overall health of communities. In the summer of 2002, Hong Zhang, MD, a resident in the Penn Occupational and Environmental residency training program working in Parkersburg, West Virginia, along with Dr. Emmett, learned that a chemical called C8 was contaminating water of the Little Hocking Water Association (LHWA) in Southeastern Ohio. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared C8 a probable human carcinogen, yet information disparities existed between the community, regulators and industry. As a result, the Environmental Justice Partnership was formed between Penn, the local community, and the local physician Dr. Zhang. Supporting 1,400 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.The University of Pennsylvania Health System includes three hospitals - its flagship hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, rated one of the nation's "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S.News & World Report; Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital; and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center - a faculty practice plan; a primary-care provider network; two multispecialty satellite facilities; and home care and hospice.
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