'Medical care right where you are': L.A. County launches mobile clinics as big as semis

The Department of Health Services launched a system of rolling clinics, expanding the care that clinicians can immediately offer to unhoused people.

, adding a van to its street medicine program. UCLA Health has also launched medically equipped vans to visit encampments, shelters and other sites where unhoused people are gathered, aiming to bring a range of primary, urgent and specialty care to the streets.

Khalili described each mobile clinic as an “anchor,” from which medical teams in smaller vans will fan out to find patients; Galat called that work “roving rounds.” “I know you don’t like needles,” Khalili said to Guevara at one point, but the woman interrupted, telling him she would be open to getting her blood drawn to see what was ailing her.

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