PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. THE PLAYERS Championship gives local charities a way to raise awareness during tournament week and each day the tournament highlights a different charity of the day.<\/p>\n
Thursdays charity of the day is the Ascension St. Vincent Foundation.<\/p>\n
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The foundation has been able to help the underserved community throughout Northeast Florida.<\/p>\n
Their mobile health outreach ministry is basically a doctors office on wheels.<\/p>\n
Its staffed with physicians and nurses to provide primary care and medication to those in need, especially in rural counties.<\/p>\n
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Nurse Claudia Portell gave us look inside the Ascension St. Vincent mobile health outreach ministry.<\/p>\n
This is where we would do a patient check in. So, think like at your doctors office where you have your blood pressure, your height, and your weight, all that. We would do that here, Portell said.<\/p>\n
All the necessary equipment is on board including an exam room.<\/p>\n
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Virginia Hall, the President of the Ascension St. Vincents Foundation, said the pandemic has only increased the number of patients these mobile units serve.<\/p>\n
Last year, the mobile health clinics helped more than 5,900 hundred patients.<\/p>\n
What were seeing is a lot of patients who maybe had insurance at one time and now they dont and maybe theyre only working part time because of family issues, Hall said.<\/p>\n
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The foundation helps those who are uninsured and from low-income families and for many of those patients, transportation is an issue.<\/p>\n
We try to eliminate that as a barrier, so we take our mobile units to the communities where the patients need to the services, Portell said.<\/p>\n
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