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Telus launches mobile clinics to support marginalized people in Toronto and Vancouver
in Toronto, the clinic will offer COVID-19 testing and vaccination in areas of high positivity rates
Telus has launched mobile clinics in both Toronto and Vancouver.
This is part of the company’s mobile Health for Good clinic program that involves a partnership with the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre and University Health Network Social Medicine Program in Toronto, and the Kilala Lelum Mobile Health Centre in Vancouver.
The Parkdale Queen West Mobile Health Clinic and Kilala Lelum Mobile Health Clinic, both powered by Telus Health, are specially equipped clinics on wheels that aim to provide “trauma-informed, culturally-sensitive primary medical treatments, Indigenous Elder-led cultural care, mental health services, and addiction,” to the citizens of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the mid-west region of Toronto.
TELUS launches newest Health for Good mobile clinic to support Toronto’s most marginalized citizens
TORONTO, Jan. 21, 2021 Today, TELUS announced the expansion of the company’s innovative
Health for Good program with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (CHC) and University Health Network’s (UHN) Social Medicine Program. The Parkdale Queen West Mobile Health Clinic powered by TELUS Health, a specially-equipped clinic on wheels, will provide essential primary health and harm reduction services directly to underserved persons in neighbourhoods in the mid-west region of Toronto. In addition, the clinic will enable mobile COVID-19 testing and vaccination efforts at homeless sheltering sites, congregate housing for marginalized populations and in areas with high positivity rates.