She said the mobile clinic serves mostly underinsured or uninsured students at schools.
YRMC officials say the ability to hit the road with children’s healthcare services continues to allow the medical team to offer no-cost health care at schools in rural areas such as Mayer, Kirkland and Paulden. The program also has two on-site, school-based health clinics. Combined, the school-based clinics and mobile clinic serve more than 50 schools in the Quad Cities area, including public, private and charter schools.
“We’re bringing the future to now as this allows us to do more in the outlying areas,” said Dignity Health CEO Anthony Torres. “This is for underserved kids, and it helps keep kids in school. It has a larger waiting space and heating and cooling is improved. This is for vulnerable students, and we want to thank our generous donors.”
Amy Negovan, Dignity Health director of Partners for Healthy Students, said the mobile clinic has served about 20,000 kids over the last 25 years. She praised the staff that has made this work possible.
She said the mobile clinic serves mostly underinsured or uninsured students at schools.
The mobile clinic replaces a 13-year-old mobile clinic van that is being donated to the Lions Club, which will use it for eye clinics, also intended mostly for kids. QCBN
By Stan Bindell, QCBN
Photo by Stan Bindell: CEO Anthony Torres ceremoniously cuts the ribbon to introduce the new mobile clinic as other Dignity Health officials look on.
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