When a resident of San Francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. What is closest to you . If you come to a Neighborhood Health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the Community Health network. We are a system of care that was probably based on the Family Practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. The cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the Haight Ashbury and they target youth. Tom woodell takes care of many of the central City Residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. Potrero hill and Southeast Health centers are Health Centers in those particular communities that are family Health Centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. Many of our clients are working poor. They pay their taxes. They may run into a rough patch now and then and what were able to provide is a bridge towards getting th
The clinic an american institution. It is the heart of our country. It is the worlds first and private multispecially practice. It is specialists working together devoting a whole range of unique and diverse talents for the needs of each individual patient. This is a model that the mayo family developed that has expanded and group to other medical centers and welcomed patients all over. It was established with a generous gift from john and lillian math shoes. They said they want to tell the voices of the chi your. Today were going to explore the history and the living legacy of mayo clinic. Ere patie every patient has a history. What your illnesses are, your health status. Just as you as a patient have a history, so, too, does an organization. Our history here is a living dynamic part of who we are. It informs who we are today, and it sets the stage for where were going in the future. You will see as you travel around the may owe clinic here at our historic displays that history is pre
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Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Could gray power be x factor in the president ial election . We will report from a battground in florida. Jon donald trump won a huge victory in the villages. But the latest polls suggested joe den is well ahead amongst the over65s. Laura the centers for Disease Control says household gatherings are spreading coronavirus in the u. S. , but the whithouse is hearing from scientists with a more controversial approach. 200 nights in a tent and counting. A 10yearold boy in britain is paying tribute to his neighbor and raising money for charity along the way. Laura welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. There are just 20 days to go until the u. S. Election. Tonight the president is
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Could gray power be x factor in the president ial election . We will report from a battground in florida. Jon donald trump won a huge victory in the villages. But the latest polls suggested joe den is well ahead amongst the over65s. Laura the centers for Disease Control says household gatherings are spreading coronavirus in the u. S. , but the whhouse is hearing from scientists with a more controversial approach. 200 nights in a tent and counting. A 10yearold boy in britain is paying tribute to his neighbor and raising money for charity along the way. Laura welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. There are just 20 days to go until the u. S. Election. Tonight the president is i