Excerpted by Daily Pilot
By Sara Cardine
For the past 50 years, community health center Share Our Selves has made strides to serve as many vulnerable and low-income people as possible, offering medical, dental and social services throughout Orange County with a main office in Costa Mesa.
In addition to providing at-risk patients medical and pharmacy services, the comprehensive center operates a food pantry and acts as a mailing address for homeless individuals who otherwise could not receive important mail. Staff provide rental and bill-payment assistance for struggling families and distribute school supplies to children in need.
Now, Share Our Selves can go even further, thanks to a new mobile health unit that aims to remove barriers to accessing healthcare by taking it out into the streets for those who need it most.
And, given the continuing coronavirus pandemic, it couldn’t have come at a better time.