A bus providing health services in Upper Manhattan gives New Yorkers a reason to smile.
The Columbia University School of Dental Medicine cut a ribbon to launch a new mobile clinic.
The 35-foot-long bus is equipped with two medical chairs for patients, a space for dental health education and x-ray equipment.
The seats are ‘smart chairs’, capable of recognizing patients and filing their medical information in virtual folders.
University faculty and students will serve patients at the mobile clinic outside schools, adoption centers and nursing homes in upper Manhattan and the South Bronx.
“And if you need to take the bus directly to the house of the genet who needs more treatment and cannot leave the house. Then it is sensitive and attentive with people who have higher needs than normal,” explained the community coordinator of this initiative.
This new vehicle replaces the old Columbia Mobile Clinic that the university purchased in 2009.
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