A New York-based network of mobile health clinics for kids will expand its services with help from a major donation. tvjessi reports.
- Children's Health Fund launched its first mobile clinics for kids in underserved New York City communities 35 years ago. Today you can find them in 15 states, providing care for more than 100,000 children each year. A recent major donation will help even more young people thrive.
The nonprofit's clinics offer everything from immunizations to mental and dental care, in a one-stop shop. In New York City, providers are partners from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Children's Hospital at Montefiore and the city's Healthy and Ready To Learn program.The mobile clinic stop in Harlem is not far from the Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ+ youth, an especially marginalized group when it comes to healthcare access.
"It's intimidating to any of us, particularly to patients and families we see who are in under-resourced communities, who are often discriminated against," Brito explained,"so here it makes it a lot easier to develop that relationship and it makes it a lot easier to be a provider for families when you have that trust."
The pediatrician Brito's family found inspired his own community-driven career. Now CHF can drive health home even more, with a recent $1.5 million donation from the largest-ever Red Nose Day.
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