“When you are living on the streets, you are focused on other aspects of survival,” Kumpf said. In the rare case they have decent insurance to see private doctors, it is cumbersome to take all the belongings and get to the office. “It discourages the homeless people from visiting the emergency rooms.” “They can get judged for how they dress or for their substance use,” she said. Kumpf says homeless people are often humiliated at hospitals. We were able to help people out when traditional healthcare systems were struggling to meet their needs.”
“That was an important time to deliver healthcare services to people where they are. “Homeless people were having much more difficulty in getting into medical buildings, the transportation was limited and they were in a mentality of being sheltered in one place” to avoid getting the disease, King said. County, couldn’t have come at a better time. The mobile clinic, arriving at the peak of COVID’s most lethal surge in L.A. It’s a well-stocked, beautiful modern space.” And if the patients wish, we are able to offer them more privacy.
We are able to bring vaccines, we are able to do lab testing and extensive wound care. “More importantly, the quality of healthcare that we have been able to deliver is much higher. “I have been able to see more patients since we got the van,” said King, a pioneer in street medicine. The experiment proved successful, he said, and is helping change the methods of street medicine in L.A.
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