This MetroHealth pediatrician founded a nonprofit in the trunk of his car to help improve kids' health [Ideastream.org]

Mathew Portell 2/9/2312:00 PM

By Rhonda Crowder, Photo: Rhonda Crowder/Ideastream Public Media, Ideastream Public Media, February 7, 2023

More than three decades ago, Dr. Robert Needlman decided if he was going to improve the health outcomes of his patients he was going to have to fight illiteracy.

“There is an association between racial disadvantage and low literacy and poor health outcomes,” said Needlman, now a pediatric physician at MetroHealth in Cleveland.

It was a nexus at which he thought he could intervene.

In 1989, Needlman, then a fellow at Boston City Hospital, started Reach Out and Read, a nonprofit that encourages literacy among young children by incorporating reading aloud into pediatric care, out of the trunk of his car.

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