Allegheny Health Network is ensuring visitors have access to medical care during the NFL draft in downtown Pittsburgh by deploying a mobile clinic, extending hours at its express care location, and offering virtual services.”It is currently outfitted as a one-person exam room, so it’s pretty private for you and the physician to have a conversation, but we will be providing basic first-aid treatment in Market Square,” said Julianne Markovich, AHN project manager. The mobile clinic, stationed outside Medi’s on Market, is equipped to provide basic first aid just blocks away from the NFL activities at Point State Park.”You trip on the sidewalk, you have a cut, just need a clean-up and a bandage — we have that for you. Twist your ankle, you need an ice pack and maybe some ACE bandages? We have that, too. You’re a little bit thirsty, dehydrated, need a snack? You need to sit down, heat’s getting to you? We have an area for that,” Markovich said.Markovich said the staff at the mobile clinic in Market Square will coordinate with nearby EMS teams to ensure people receive additional care if needed, whether at a hospital or a clinic with more advanced equipment.AHN’s downtown walk-in express care on Penn Avenue will also remain open with extended hours during the draft. “We are staffing up and preparing for crazy, so we’ll be ready. It’s going to be hard to predict how many folks are going to need and want to utilize our services, so we are doubling our staffing, really changing up our hours and expanding the scope of what we do a little bit as well, to be able to manage whatever walks through the door,” said Dr. Amy Crawford-Faucher of AHN. The express care location will operate from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday during the draft. For those unable to visit the mobile clinic or express care, medical tents will be stationed throughout the draft area. “We will have QR codes and the ability for folks to access that, even if they don’t want to come down to us. So we can handle not broken bones and that sort of thing, but some of those other very small minor things can be handled virtually,” Crawford-Faucher said. The QR codes will be displayed on signs outside and made available through the NFL app and AHN’s draft-specific webpage.
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Allegheny Health Network is ensuring visitors have access to medical care during the NFL draft in downtown Pittsburgh by deploying a mobile clinic, extending hours at its express care location, and offering virtual services.
“It is currently outfitted as a one-person exam room, so it’s pretty private for you and the physician to have a conversation, but we will be providing basic first-aid treatment in Market Square,” said Julianne Markovich, AHN project manager.
The mobile clinic, stationed outside Medi’s on Market, is equipped to provide basic first aid just blocks away from the NFL activities at Point State Park.
“You trip on the sidewalk, you have a cut, just need a clean-up and a bandage — we have that for you. Twist your ankle, you need an ice pack and maybe some ACE bandages? We have that, too. You’re a little bit thirsty, dehydrated, need a snack? You need to sit down, heat’s getting to you? We have an area for that,” Markovich said.
Markovich said the staff at the mobile clinic in Market Square will coordinate with nearby EMS teams to ensure people receive additional care if needed, whether at a hospital or a clinic with more advanced equipment.
AHN’s downtown walk-in express care on Penn Avenue will also remain open with extended hours during the draft.
“We are staffing up and preparing for crazy, so we’ll be ready. It’s going to be hard to predict how many folks are going to need and want to utilize our services, so we are doubling our staffing, really changing up our hours and expanding the scope of what we do a little bit as well, to be able to manage whatever walks through the door,” said Dr. Amy Crawford-Faucher of AHN.
The express care location will operate from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday during the draft. For those unable to visit the mobile clinic or express care, medical tents will be stationed throughout the draft area.
“We will have QR codes and the ability for folks to access that, even if they don’t want to come down to us. So we can handle not broken bones and that sort of thing, but some of those other very small minor things can be handled virtually,” Crawford-Faucher said.
The QR codes will be displayed on signs outside and made available through the NFL app and AHN’s draft-specific webpage.