To keep kids healthy and happy throughout the holiday season, Cedar-Sinai’s COACH (Community Outreach Assistance for Children’s Health) for Kids and their Families®, a program of the Maxine Dunitz Children’s Health Center, brought its mobile health unit to Pueblo Del Rio on Thursday Dec. 20. Children and parents who stop by the COACH mobile medical unit receive toys donated by Cedars-Sinai employees as well as free health and nutrition information.
Parents had their children’s immunization records reviewed and make appointments for follow up health care. COACH for Kids will also raffle gift cards for families who bring immunization records. There will be healthy snacks and drinks including the surprise “green goblin smoothie.” The program will be run with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, whose President and CEO Doug Guthrie says “thousands of our public housing youth have benefitted from services provided through Cedars-Sinai’s COACH mobile medical program.”
Started in 1994, Cedars-Sinai’s COACH (Community Outreach Assistance for Children’s Health) for Kids and their Families Program, is a pediatric mobile medical and case management program that provides free primary health care services to medically underserved children in Los Angeles County. Health care services include well child check-ups, immunizations, TB tests, vision, hearing and dental screenings as well as oral health and nutrition education. Cedars-Sinai has provided services at Pueblo Del Rio for 18 years and it offers services at other locations in underserved areas across Los Angeles County.
