Oregon nonprofit provides free healthcare to vineyard workers [Video]

BEAVERTON, Ore. — For the last 33 years, Oregon nonprofit ¡Salud! has provided Oregon vineyard stewards and their families with free healthcare in parts of the Willamette Valley. This is all in partnership with OHSU’s Hillsboro Medical Center.

And now, they’re taking those services on wheels by meeting workers at their job sites with a second ¡Salud! mobile clinic unit. 

“[This mobile unit has] a full exam room with all the things that we need to take care of our patients,” said Leda Garside, a registered nurse who also serves as the ¡Salud! Services Manager. “It has given us an amazing space to do all this, and we also created an electronic medical record for that patient.” 

Garside says these units give them the ability to run full exams, check for diabetes, provide …