Grants to provide new health center for Hiram Johnson, mobile clinic for San Juan Unified schools

Modesto Bee

Federal funds will build a new health clinic at Hiram Johnson High School and put a mobile health clinic on the road to serve five other schools in Sacramento County.  The two grants totaling nearly $877,000 come from the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  A $376,774 grant for the mobile clinic was awarded to the nonprofit Midtown Medical Center for Children and Families.  The mobile clinic could be on the road as early as next spring, said Elizabeth Cassin, CEO of the medical center.  The mobile unit will provide primary, dental and mental health care to students who attend schools in low-income areas of the San Juan Unified School District. The mobile van will serve Encina High School and Greer, Edison, Howe and Dyer-Kelly elementary schools, said Nina Mancina, program specialist at San Juan Unified.

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