St. Clare Health Mission: Rotary Mobile Clinic

Quarterly Report : January – March 2023

From Jason Larsen, St. Claire Health Mission Executive Director 

This month, we partnered for the first time with Cochrane-Fountain City Schools to provide sport physicals for their students. We delivered 11 sport physicals with a host of volunteers from St. Clare Health Mission and Bridges Health Winona (Pictured on next page). These partnerships are growing and we look forward to expanding our reach. Additionally, next week, we will have our first pop-up clinic at Independence School District. Our mobile med partnerships with Bridges Health Winona, Gundersen Health System, Arcadia School District, all remain strong. Our goal for spring/summer is to continue to add more partnerships with farms, schools, and nonprofits.

The spring plan is to continue operations in all core areas with exciting partnerships and additions underway. We have begun planning to work with Vivant Health and they are attending Street Med rounds to formulate a winning partnership for when their mobile unit is ready. We are working to add new farms, schools, and community hubs to the mix and Gundersen is seeking a grant to add providers to expand from every other Friday, to each Friday. We have a long-standing partnership with Gundersen Family Residency and have recently added Gundersen Internal Residency to the Street Med team.

We added a new short-term staffer to the team. Amelia Thompson is a pre-med student who is off the University of Wisconsin Medical School in June. She has been helping mobile med in all areas – from research, planning, driving, screening implementation, and overall embedding herself into the program as we research and implement best practices. As she transitions to medical school, we are also working on funding for a full-time community health worker to run mobile medicine program going forward.

Patient Volumes

Street Medicine: 118 patient visits

Rural Medicine: 22 patient visits

Farm Medicine: 16 patient visits

Rotary Mobile Clinic 156 total patient visits

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Clinic dates:

Wednesdays

Street Medicine serving local the sheltered and unsheltered homeless. We make rounds to Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, Houska Park, Cameron Park, and local parking garages. During extra cold weeks we also visit the pop up homeless shelters provided by the City of La Crosse.

Thursdays

First and third Thursday: Arcadia Middle School in partnership with St. Clare Health Mission, Bridges Health Winona, and Arcadia Schools. Recently, we have added partnerships with Cochrane-Fountain City School District.

Fridays

We alternate between farms serving immigrant farm workers. We are currently working on an expansion with Gundersen Health System where we will serve farms, rural pop-up locations, and chronic condition clinics on a rotating basis. We are working to add new farms, schools, and community hubs to the mix and Gundersen is seeking a grant to add providers to expand to each Friday.