There's a burgeoning program in Allentown, PA, known as "street medicine" that aims to provide the homeless population with much-needed access to health care and medicine.
"'[It] was born out of the idea that everybody matters," says Brett Feldman, a clinician who works tirelessly to serve the homeless community in his area. "We see that there are certain segments of the population that just don't access health care the way that everybody else does."
Feldman packs a backpack full of medical supplies and leaves behind the sterile hospital walls in search of his patients where they feel most comfortable and safe — out in the woods.
Recently, countless programs have been launched in order to provide emergency assistance to the homeless and disadvantaged in our society. Miracle Messages is one such effort to reunite people who live on the street with their lost loved ones, and it’s already had an enormous impact.
The Better Way Program boasts another team of volunteers actively providing jobs to people who have no opportunity to find employment beyond asking for money on the side of the road. They're proving that all it takes is one helping hand to change someone's life forever.
"I have a backpack with over 20 medications, we have [an] EKG machine, we do point-of-care testing where we can get different blood work," says Feldman, who certainly seems prepared for anything. "The whole idea is to deliver quality care on-site in a place where the patient feels comfortable."
If that isn’t the most amazing idea, I don’t know what is.
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