(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Children on Chicago's Northwest side can now get checkups and physicals in their own neighborhoods.
Lurie Children's Hospital is bringing healthcare to individual communities through a new mobile unit that will be headquartered in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood.
“We definitely have a great hospital down in Streeterville,” president and CEO Tom Shanley said Wednesday. “But to have a real impact on our community requires that we go out and we go into those communities and deliver the services that are needed to address those upstream challenges that we know are facing children early in life.”
The new colorful mobile unit includes two clinic rooms, a wheelchair ramp, running water and bathrooms.
Children will be able to get physicals, vaccines and asthma care starting on Sept. 18.
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