Ascension Wisconsin and Outreach Community Health Centers have launched a new mobile health clinic to bring preventive and acute care directly to underserved Milwaukee residents, including the homeless. The unit rotates through neighborhoods with the least access to care, stopping Tuesdays at Calvary Baptist Church and Thursdays at the Ascension Ebenezer Health Resource Center, where a food pantry is also open during clinic hours.
The initiative builds on decades of work by both partners.
Outreach Community Health Centers has served Milwaukee families for more than 40 years and holds a special designation as the only Federally Qualified Health Center in southeast Wisconsin dedicated to serving people experiencing homelessness.
Ascension Wisconsin’s St. Ben’s Clinic, meanwhile, has provided primary and preventive care to people who are homeless or housing-insecure for more than four decades on its own. Ascension itself is the largest nonprofit health system in the United States, tracing its mission back to founding orders of Catholic sisters who opened hospitals for the poor in the 1800s.
“For more than four decades, Ascension St. Ben’s Clinic has provided primary and preventive healthcare services to people who are struggling with homelessness or at risk of homelessness,” said Nichole Gladney, Community Health Services and Engagement Director at Ascension Wisconsin.
“The addition of this mobile unit will expand those critically important services into more Milwaukee neighborhoods and help our community flourish.”
This summary is based on the following sources:
- Ascension Wisconsin and Outreach Community Health Centers Launch Mobile Health Clinic to Serve Medically Underserved in Milwaukee, Ascension
- Ascension St. Ben’s Clinic, Ascension
- Resources, Outreach Community Health Centers
- Our Heritage, Our Story, Ascension
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