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Article: Large mobile hospital opens in Calif.: ; Los Angeles is the biggest area ever served by the nonprofit group
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 17, 2009
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LOS ANGELES - The doors to the Forum in Inglewood near downtown
Los Angeles opened Tuesday to a massive mobile hospital, the largest
and longest-running free clinic ever attempted in the 25-year
history of Remote Area Medical Foundation, a Tennessee-based
nonprofit organization more accustomed to serving rural America.
Each day since, more than 750 patients have been served, many
waiting for hours and some sleeping overnight in their cars for a
chance at a free exam in the cavernous sports arena. In the first
three days of the clinic's eight-day run, the foundation provided
1,640 dental fillings, performed 706 tooth extractions and 141
mammograms and doled out more than 550 pairs of ...