What We Do
Community Mobile Health Clinic
You are a wonder…
The Dequenesh Community Mobile Health Clinic provides free primary cares services to uninsured, under-insured and the working poor regardless of citizenship status.
Our two-exam room mobile clinic (see our floor plan here), completely refurbished in 2005, allows us to put into practice the concept of “meeting the patient where they are” thus increasing access to healthcare services.
For the past three years, we have partnered with the Pueblo High School women’s cross country team providing free sports physicals, health education, and fitness consultation.
On January 2, 2006 we began a collaboration with Clinica Amistad y Salud, Pima County Natural Resources and the City of South Tucson providing acute and chronic disease management, screenings, preventative services, physical examinations and immunizations in South Tucson.
Our current community partner is the Primavera Foundation. In April 2007 we were invited to join them at Casa Paloma, a.k.a. “the Pink House.” The Pink House is open to un-accompanied women for bathing, laundry, food and refuge. Simply put the Pink House provides refuge for homeless women and the mobile clinic provides access to a continuum of services: primary healthcare, TB skin tests, Reikei and Shiatsu massage as well as herbal remedies.
The Dequenesh Community Mobile Health Clinic uses a wellness model draws upon the best of conventional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) emphasizing healing and prevention rather than disease. CAM is a category of medicine that uses a multi-disciplinary approach to medicine. It is designed to provide the maximum therapeutic benefit by accessing the shared knowledge of a variety of allopathic and alternative practitioners. One of the core principles in CAM is to address the body, mind and spirit of the patient and treating the source of the illness instead of the symptoms.