No OHIP Card, No Car, No Family Doctor? No Problem for This Travelling Rural Clinic

No OHIP card, no car, no family doctor? No problem for this travelling rural clinic

A travelling clinic equipped with mental health staff, a nurse practitioner and a community paramedic says no health care card, appointment, or form of payment is needed.

Across a Vast Terrain, Rural Health Centers Fill Crucial Gaps

The clinics Keith Harvey oversees cover 8,500 square miles in northern Minnesota – and serve about 14,000 patients. “Our clinics are very remote,” explained Harvey, CEO of Scenic Rivers Health Services, whose six locations serve the area’s rural patients, many of them miners, loggers, and agricultural workers. “If somebody gets strep throat, they go to the local clinic. If that local clinic isn’t available to them…the ultimate result is that peo…