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Riverside-based Health to Hope Clinics has donated more than $26,000 to the Nursing Street Medicine program at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert campus.
The money will help improve healthcare access in underserved communities, increase mobile medical clinics and improve health-related infrastructure, according to a statement on the university’s website.
The gift from Health to Hope will allow the university to grow the Nursing Street Medicine program, said Diane Vines, the program’s coordinator.
“We are providing much-needed healthcare services for homeless and unsheltered people in the Coachella Valley, and preparing our future nurses to understand this vulnerable population,” Vines said in the statement.
The Nursing Street Medicine program includes partnerships with the Coachella Valley Volunteers in Medicine, Well in the Desert, Desert Regional Medical Center family medicine residency program, Shepherd of the Valley United Methodist Church, and Lutheran Social Services of Southern California, according to the statement.
