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Oct 20, 2020 Ishshah Padilla -

Free Mobile Healthcare

The Fresno State mobile health unit and UCSF provided free services at a health event put on by District 31 Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula.

The Fresno State mobile health unit travels to rural areas within Fresno county where health care is not easily accessible. It offers flu shots, diabetes screening, and cholesterol tests, even dietary advice. UCSF conducted the COVID testing.

The mobile unit is operated by Fresno State student nurses and is overseen by associate professor Kathleen Rindahl.

“People are not getting access to their routine care. A lot of the doctors are doing telehealth or telemedicine so they are not actually seeing their family doctors and getting your preventative care like the flu vaccine and with USCF with covid testing is huge because they are not going to have access to it otherwise,” Rindahl said.

By going out into the community, student nurses get to practice what they have learned.

“When student come out to the community and what communities they live in, what resources they have, what cultures are out there they can better understand them when a patient goes to the hospital for care,” Rindahl said.

The mobile health unit travels various times throughout the semester. The College of Health and Human Services posts their future stops for free health services on their website at http://fresnostate.edu/chhs/students/interprofessional.html .

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