Combined residents & faculty lend a hand at the opening of the city's emergency winter shelter

San Diego's emergency winter shelter opened last week in Barrio Logan, close to our St Vincent de Paul Village clinic. The SVdP Mobile Health Clinic, staffed by UCSD Combined residents and faculty, completed health screenings on over 200 people before they entered the shelter. We screened for conditions that could pose public health risks, and provided on-site medical and psychiatric treatment for people requiring medical attention in order to be safely housed at the shelter. Our mobile heath clinic will be on-site at the winter tent every Monday, all winter long, providing ongoing medical & psychiatric care. Our faculty, residents, and Village health staff have been part of this effort every year for over a decade.