{"id":102339,"date":"2025-08-22T17:39:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:39:04","slug":"a-tallahassee-emergency-homeless-shelter-is-providing-medical-care-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102339\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tallahassee emergency homeless shelter is providing medical care again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tallahassee emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness is now providing medical care to clients for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit Doctors United has a full clinic at the <a href=\"https:\/\/kearneycenter.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kearney Center.<\/a> Practitioners will provide primary care to patients 13 and older in the Big Bend region.<\/p>\n<p>The center&#8217;s CEO, Sonya Wilson, says getting access to treatment will help give clients more stability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to go and treat those things first before they can go and function on a job and become self-sufficient,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;And in doing so, it lets our community know and our clients know that we care about them. They&#8217;re important to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson says that will help many of the shelter&#8217;s clients get jobs and hold them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your health, your mental health, your physical health and dentistry are critical to being able to go out and gain employment and be self-sustainable,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The shelter&#8217;s medical facility has been reoutfitted and now includes a lab.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Wilson says, Doctors United will be leasing the space, helping the shelter address its tight budget.  <\/p>\n<p> Copyright 2025 WFSU <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tallahassee emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness is now providing medical care to clients for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-102339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}