Domestic Violence Victims Receive Help from On-Site Health Clinic
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The Rose Brooks Center in Kansas City recently opened an on-site health clinic to help those who are victims of domestic violence. Often, these individuals suffer from injuries that can have a devastating effect on their long-term health. SafeCARE is the first health care clinic located inside a domestic violence center in the Kansas City area.
Women and children living at the center will have the opportunity to receive basic checkups, sexually transmitted disease screenings, and school physicals, which are free and provided by physicians, nurses and hospital staff who graciously donate their time to help survivors of domestic violence.
With this new center, those whose abusers prevented access to medical care, had a fear of seeking medical treatment, or had a lack of insurance or a way to get to and from their doctor's visits will now have the much-needed help to seek quality health care.
The two-room clinic was funded by a combination of grants and donations. To read more about the Rose Brooks Center's SafeCARE Health Clinic, click here to read the article in the Kansas City Star. |
