The Kearney Center emergency shelter is now providing medical care to its clients for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The nonprofit Doctors United has a full clinic onsite at the Kearney Center. Practitioners will provide primary care to patients aged 13 and older.
The Center’s CEO, Sonya Wilson, says getting access to treatment will help give her clients more stability.
“We’ve got to go and treat those things first before they can go and function on a job and become self-sufficient," Wilson said. "And in doing so, it lets our community know and our clients know that we care about them. They’re important to us.”
Wilson says that will help many of the shelter’s clients get jobs and hold them.
“Your health, your mental health, your physical health and dentistry are critical to being able to go out and gain employment and be self-sustainable,” she said.
The nonprofit has re-outfitted Kearney’s medical facility, which now includes a lab.
What’s more, Wilson says, Doctors United will be leasing the space – helping the Kearney Center address its tight budget.
