This spring the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community mobile unit will be kept busy providing services to Minnesota residents, including two visits to Grand Portage by the mobile unit.
The SMSC mobile unit is both a mobile medical clinic, which provides health screening, mammograms, prevention and education, treatment services; and a mobile incident command center which can be used to handle emergency situations like search and rescue, lost children, incident command support, and medical support for events.
Scheduled visits to Grand Portage include April 19-21 at the Grand Portage Clinic for dental, diabetes and vision; and May 24 and 25 to provide mammograms. Six hundred ninetysix mammograms were performed in 2010 aboard the mobile unit, and 2,658 mammograms have been performed since operations began in 2007.
For more information about the program go to www.smscmobile.org or call (952) 233-2964.
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