PEDIATRICS Vol. 88 No. 3 September 1991, pp. 505
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PEDIATRICS VANS: HOUSE CALLS FOR THE HOMELESS

J. F. L. MD

The Children's Health Project, with two mobile medical vans, was created three and a half years ago by the singer and songwriter Paul Simon to give free health care to homeless children in New York City. The vans, which have everything one would find in a regular pediatrician's office, make daily visits to family shelters, shelters for children without families and welfare hotels.

Most patients have common ailments: ear infections, bad colds. Children needing special care are transferred to hospitals.

The project, run by the Children's Health Fund at 919 Third Avenue, near 56th Street, is the largest of its kind in the country. It fills such a gap for the city's roughly 11,000 homeless children that a third van is being added in July. Twenty other cities, including Newark, want to use the project as a model for their own programs.


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