Gainesville is recognized internationally as a world -class health destination, offering wonderful patient care, innovative research and advanced educational programs that form our next generation of suppliers. Although I do not think this is a news for us, the devil is in detail and sometimes we miss the real extent of the options at our disposal. Example: UF Health’s mobile awareness unit fleet, devoted to providing high quality health care in places where people work and live.
This month, UF Health launched its last mobile unit, it focused on gynecological and maternal care. The OB / Gyn Outreach mobile unit is a collaboration between the UF Mobile Outreach Clinic and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the UF College of Medicine. The van itself includes two examination rooms, a waiting area, a laboratory space and a wheelchair facelift to provide compassionate and high quality care to all, regardless of insurance status or the capacity to pay. Mobile personnel health care providers also provide support for breastfeeding and family planning to help individuals make informed decisions on boresic health.
The new OB / Gyn Outreach mobile unit is only the last UF efforts to extend its scope. The original mobile awareness clinic (MOC) has worked to meet the needs of poorly served media in low -income neighborhoods and rural areas since 2010, offering free and high -quality medical care. By operating a modernized bus that provides health care directly in neighborhoods, MOC eliminates traditional obstacles to care, such as transport and distance from medical facilities.
An additional MOC service is the UF Medical-Student Street Medical Program for our particularly vulnerable population without housing. Medicine students go out as a team with an approved medicine supplier, residents and volunteer students to provide health care where these patients reside, whether in a camp, under a bridge or in wood, to help fight problems such as food rarity, trauma, violence, access to transport, mental health and drug addiction. And not to scare yourself, but did you know that, according to the National Institutes of Health, 1.9 million brain cells are lost every minute during a stroke and cannot be recovered? To help fight this, in the summer of 2023, UF Health launched the processing unit of mobile strokes (MSTU), one of the 16 active programs of this type on a national level. In collaboration with Alachua County Fire Rescue, the MSTU can come directly to your aisle, transporting an authorized stifled nurse, a paramedical ambulancer, an emergency medical technician and a CT technologist, as well as a vascular neurologist, either on the truck or by telemedicine, to start a real treatment during the closest stroke of the stroke.
I feel incredibly blessed that the health professionals of our community continue to innovate and expand their services, helping us to make a healthy and productive life.
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