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.e ' The Mobiles Care Health Project St. FYancia Healthcare System and Hawau Leland Catholic Social Ministry Update -Summary of the First 30 Days of Operation The Mobile~Care Heahh Project darted services January 6, 1997. The project began with social service counseling and screenings, intakes to collect demographic information and determine eligibility, heahh assessments and dental screenings at 6 rural sites in West Hawaii. A map is attached and a schedule for the van to show the areas and the distances between sites. 77te fast 60 days have been very exciting and fiuitfuL W e began our services with screenings, heahh assessments, and oral screenings in order to get a "feel" for the problems/concerns of the population we would be serving. We began our services with intake, heahh assessments from an RN end dental screenings only. We also have a representative from the Mental Health Division preset at the sites to provide mental health screenings and outreach services, and our Cara-A-Van outreach staff on site to provide other types of counseling services for the homeless population. St. Francis has hired three dentists (one that serves each area so the same dentist goes to the same spot every week}. The project is working with the two community health centers on the island to provide the medical services component to the project and we plan to have this in place in the next two months. At the end of the month, (January 27th) we began to provide dental treatments for returning patients. Below is a summary of the dental and heahh assessment services that were provided by the staff on the vans. DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON PERSONS SEEN BY THE MOBILE~CARE PROJECT. Number of Unduniicated People Seen at the different sites is the firot 2 weeks of oaerstion $156 Gender A e Ethnicl Medical Resources Male 74 <1 1 Caucasian 62 Nome 75 Female 89 1-S 9 Hwn/PtHwn 35 VEST 43 6-12 16 Hi 'c 23 Medicaid 15 ftesidenc 13-18 7 J ese oval 6 Kaiser 3 Lon -time resident 133 19-44 82 Native American 1 HMSA 14 3 months - 2 eaze 20 43-60 38 Mixed Race 14 Medicare 16 < 3 months, lane to 8 60+ 10 Fili ' 0 11 VA Medical 3 Transient 2 Other 9 Other 1 Dental Insurance Coverage: Please note that the medical coverage reported is only for medical coverage. Most I people seen had no dental coverage other than the adults on QUEST. It is important to note that the people on QLTES7 were adults and only have coverage for emergency dental care (the tooth must be abscessed and the dental coverage will only allow the tooth to be pulled). It is our policy that if a child has dental coverage under the QUEST program, we refer t}tan to the dentist they are assigne to. If an adult is covered under QUEST we will see than for care. Many of the adults that have come to us have needed fillings, erc. that are not part of their dental coverage. It is our belief that if we can provide this service, these adults will find themselves with abscessed teeth that need to be pulled. Ali other people seen met the low-income requirements and did not have detrtal coverage. Three dentists are employed by the project. The same detrtist goes to the same area each week. Hawaii Island Catholic Social Ministry is responsible for the oversight and etnployment of the Outreach Nurse, Dtiver/Imake Worker and the Program Coordinator. Blow is a synopsis of the program and the services provided to the individual communities in th first few weeks of operatiott (January 6 -January 29, 1997}.