The University of Arizona group Street Medicine Tucson offers a monthly mobile clinic.
Vic Verbalaitis For the Arizona Daily Star Parked behind downtown Tucson’s Z Mansion, an RV occupies a portion of the alley. A graphic of the human cardiovascular system hangs inside the RV on the doorway to a small room with a medical treatment table.
The students involved in Street Medicine Tucson organize monthly clinics with their Mobile Health Unit, the RV fitted with the medical treatment room that they park at the Z Mansion, 288 N. Church Ave. There, people in need of health care are assisted at no charge by volunteer medical practitioners and students.
The club was formerly called Mobile Medicats but changed its name to gain support from the national Street Medicine organization. Z Mansion is an event and wedding venue owned by Reverend Tom Hill, a pastor and a professor in the Health Sciences department at the UA. Through Hill’s WORKship Methodist Church ministry, volunteers help serve the city’s homeless population at the mansion on Thursdays and Sundays.
Kelly and Esteban Ureña, a physiology and medical science double major who serves as co-vice president of Street Medicine Tucson, said turnout for the club's mobile health clinics increased after the move to Z Mansion. They said Z Mansion’s good reputation among the homeless population made it much easier for patients to trust them.
“We’re always recruiting, and allowing people to come,” Kelly said. “There’s room for anyone and everyone.”
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