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NORWEGIAN AMERICAN HOSPITAL UNVEILS
CHICAGO’S LARGEST PEDIATRIC
MOBILE UNIT ON APRIL 23
Secretary of State Jesse White on hand to cut ribbon
S ecretary of State Jesse White
joins Norwegian American Hospital
as they debut its Pediatric Care-A-Van, Chicago’s
largest, multi-use pediatric mobile unit at a ribbon-cutting
ceremony on Wednesday, April 23 at 11:30 a.m.
With the support from the Children’s Care
Foundation, the custom-designed van is the centerpiece of the
hospital’s new program, “Pediatric Care-A-Van,” designed to
target underserved children in the Norwegian American Hospital
community without regard to an ability to pay.
The Pediatric Care-A-Van will provide high
quality health care services directly to children and their
families by going to schools, and day care and community
centers. It will also link these children and their families
into an appropriate primary care system for further care when
needed.
The state-of-the-art mobile unit will
provide the following type of services: routine child
immunizations, required school/sports physicals, hearing and
vision screenings, pulmonary function testing, asthma
assessments, childhood health promotions, in addition to injury
prevention and education. It also has two, full-sized patient
examination rooms, laboratory, medical records area and nursing
station.
The unit is specifically built to easily
navigate Chicago streets and highways with the capability to
park, set-up and operate on a street, lot, playground or field
at any school or community partner location. Its exterior
graphic design, displaying the Norwegian American Hospital logo
and some of the patients and doctors seen here in the hospital,
was created to make it easily recognizable and distinguishable
from other Chicago area mobile medical providers.
"Norwegian American Hospital has a long
standing tradition of dedicated service and commitment to the
Humboldt Park community and its youngest members in particular.
The pediatric medical mobile unit allows Norwegian to bring this
tradition to all residents of our communities,” said Alderman
Billy Ocasio of the 26th Ward.
For more information about the Norwegian
American Hospital Pediatric Care-A-Van, please call Russell Hyde
at 773-292-2629 or contact him by e-mail at rhyde@nahospital.org.
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