Newswise — Fifteen-year-old twins Tonia and Antonia Thomas were the 100,000th and 100,001st patients to be treated by the Pediatric Mobile Health Unit of the Ronald McDonald® Children’s Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center on Wednesday, March 21, at Roswell B. Mason Math and Science Academy located at 1830 S. Keeler in North Lawndale. These twins have been treated for asthma by the mobile unit since they were 5-years-old. Today, their asthma is under control thanks to the care they have received.
The mobile unit is a 13-ton, 40-foot health facility that travels to schools throughout Chicago and its suburbs to treat medically underserved children each weekday. The clinic on wheels was the first of its kind in the Midwest. It offers routine physical examinations, immunizations, health screenings, educational sessions, lab tests and asthma checks. The program has treated thousands of patients since it opened in 1998. This has led to reduced school absences and emergency department visits.
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