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...like many other mobile health clinics in Boston, The Family Van was forced to slash its budget by roughly 20 percent—or a little over $100,000—in 2008 and to cut back on staff and services including community health awareness events...
Twenty years ago, when Oriol was treating patients at Harvard-affiliate Beth Israel Deaconess Mecical Center, she was struck by the high rates of infant mortality in Boston, which she says are symptomatic of a “very sick community” suffering from great disparaities in access to care...
Oriol recalls spending the next two years networking with “everybody and anybody who was related to healthcare in Boston...
Four days a week, The Family Van makes its rounds through Boston neighborhoods, stopping at each designated site for three hours as patients enter the blue-cushioned compartment that serves as a mobile waiting room...
Taveras, who directrs the One Step Ahead Program at Harvard-affiliate Children’s Hospital Boston, said that the study’s results will play a role in shaping childhood obesity prevention programs, as the research shows that earlier intervention is necessary especially among minority children...