Staffed by a nurse or nurse practitioner and clinical social worker, the new Minneapolis VA Mobile Medical Unit or MMU, for short will be stationed on Tuesdays outside the Catholic Charities Opportunity Center in St Paul.
After serving stateside during the Vietnam War, Sidney Patterson found himself sleeping in cars, abandoned buildings and other sites he wasn’t proud to call home. Homeless off and on for 14 years, he finally found stability in 1990 with the help of a church and the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which instructed him as to the kinds of VA services he would qualify for, from .