Hennepin Healthcare Open House Celebrates Pediatric Mobile Health Clinic
Hennepin Healthcare will be taking its pediatric mobile health clinic around the metro in response to plummeting immunization rates.
“We recognized with shelter-in-place orders, families being really nervous about the virus, we weren’t seeing kids in clinic like we have been as a consequence of that, immunization rates started to plummet,” said Sheyanga Beecher, nurse practitioner.
Sheyanga Beecher, nurse practitioner
The Pediatric Mobile Health Clinic will continue to expand its care options from mobile runs to pop-up clinics, screening and referrals and other outreach activities.
“The community, our patients, partner organizations and public health have been grateful and enthusiastically supportive of this work,” said Dr. Dawn Martin, in a release. “They have helped us adapt, better understand and meet the needs of our communities, and this project has been successful because families, community organizations and people throughout Hennepin Healthcare worked together.”
The mobile clinic will be another way to provide access for communities, who already experience barriers to healthcare, transportation and language translation knowing that these families were even more impacted by the pandemic.
Read more about the Pediatric Mobile Health Clinic at Hennepin Healthcare’s hereforlife.blog.
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