White Bird Clinic launched a new mobile medical clinic in partnership with a local homeless services provider on Tuesday, May 19, expanding a street-level model designed to bring health care directly to unhoused patients.
The mobile clinic will operate at Community Supported Shelters’ street outreach office on West 11th Avenue every Tuesday from 1 to 4 p.m., offering primary care, wound treatment, lab work and medication management for people who rely on Community Supported Shelters.
It builds on White Bird’s first mobile operation at St. Vincent de Paul’s Schlies Resource Center along Highway 99, which operates on Fridays and recently hit its one-year anniversary. The model helps patients overcome the obstacles that prevent them from receiving vital care, staff said…