CAPSLO’s The Heart for Well being and Prevention formally welcomed a cellular well being care clinic on Saturday to its umbrella of companies.
The so-called Well being Care on Wheels cellular clinic will present high quality, compassionate and confidential sexual and reproductive well being care companies throughout the county, group members mentioned.
“People who’re traditionally underserved, low-income unhoused people which can be struggling to entry companies,” Kayla Wilburn, CAPSLO’s clinic director, mentioned of whom the clinic will primarily present companies. “We wish to ensure that they’ve the flexibility to get care. And so it is primarily based on household measurement and revenue.”
The Heart for Well being and Prevention is thought colloquially as The Heart.
The revealing occasion included an official ribbon-cutting ceremony, excursions of the cellular clinic, a group useful resource honest, and a free lunch.
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The cellular clinic shall be deployed to areas the place individuals face financial, geographic or different systemic boundaries to high quality sexual and reproductive companies. Companies shall be supplied on a first-come, first-serve foundation.
The clinic was made attainable by a grant from the San Luis Obispo County Workplace of Public Well being.