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New mobile health clinic for Wichita’s urban poor

cr @ March 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet

by  Christopher Richards
The Good Samaritan Medical Clinic is proud to announce their brand new 40-foot mobile medical clinic! The mobile unit takes to the streets this month and will bring care to Wichita’s urban poor.

The program is the inspiration of World Impact, a faith-based organization that has been providing medical care and spiritual solace to […]

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Sustainability: the key to Saint Mary’s mobile dental program

cr @ March 24, 2006 # No Comment Yet

by  Christopher Richards
When Michael Johnson eases back in his chair to think about the one main ingredient to their successful mobile programs, he calmly states, “You can’t live off a good idea. Before starting a mobile dental service, you have to know how you are going to sustain it,”
Mr. Johnson, director of mission outreach and […]

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The Early Bird flies south to save lives

cr @ March 20, 2006 # No Comment Yet

by Christopher Richards
When hurricane Katrina shut down the charity hospital system’s breast cancer-screening program in New Orleans, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center (MBPCC) in Baton Rouge responded fast with their new forty-foot long mobile cancer-screening clinic, aptly named The Early Bird.

A free service for uninsured patients, the mobile unit is part of MBPCC’s C.A.R.E. Network […]

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