In its white paint with vegetable drawings and blue stripes, Weld County’s mobile health unit arrives at the Guadalupe Apartments in Greeley.
It is early November at the permanent low-income housing building, and the parking lot is fairly empty. A soft breeze moves the fallen leaves around the mobile health unit, and the painted pumpkins at the apartment’s entrance seem like they are about to fly away.
Three nurses and two community health workers come out of the unit. They get tables and pamphlets out of storage and start inviting people to get vaccinated, do some STI testing and get screened for prediabetes. All for free…