Fresno State unveils 2 mobile health units to help expand health care in Central Valley

Since the archetypal mobile wellness portion successful 2015, astir 18,000 radical person received services from Fresno State module and students.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State is taking enactment to marque wellness attraction much accessible to everyone successful the Central Valley.

On Tuesday, nursing students spent astir of the greeting astatine the Cherry Avenue Auction successful Fresno County. This time, they brought caller wheels with them.

"The mode our portion has been designed is really designed by a caregiver for nurses," explained Madelyn Carey, adjunct prof of College of Health and Human Services. "The mode it's designed wrong -- it tin either beryllium 1 elephantine exam room, it tin beryllium sorted into 2 abstracted exam rooms that person tables for our caregiver practitioner students, oregon successful today's case, we person it acceptable up to beryllium 3 antithetic small exam rooms."

Fresno State has 2 large, marque caller mobile wellness units, wherever students and module tin supply escaped wellness services and screenings to underserved communities.

Bea Hartung, a fifth-semester nursing student, said much abstraction allows much patients to beryllium served.

"There wasn't a full batch of country to determination around," she shared. "So we had to bounds the magnitude of students and unit that could spell retired into these communities."

In underserved communities, healthcare entree is limited.

According to Carey, the mobile portion has helped place superior wellness conditions that patients would person ne'er known about.

"We assistance them instrumentality those archetypal steps, adjacent to the constituent of giving them a referral to antithetic clinics successful the assemblage that tin assistance with adjacent steps similar medicine management," Carey said.

The caller mobile wellness units were made imaginable by $4 cardinal successful authorities funds secured by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula.

Since the archetypal mobile wellness portion rolled retired successful 2015, astir 18,000 patients person received wellness attraction services from Fresno State module and students.

There are 4 much mobile wellness units scheduled astir Fresno County.

Visit here to find a database of dates and locations.

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