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Photos: The Mercy Care street medicine team
Photos: Mercy Care started a street medicine team in Atlanta five years ago. Four days a week, nurses and a social workers provide medical and mental health care to people living on the streets.
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August 22, 2019 Atlanta - Mathew Reed (left), Mercy Care case manager, encourages his client at Mercy Community Church in Atlanta on Thursday, August 22, 2019. Mercy Care started a street medicine team five years ago one night a week and has expanded the program - to four days/nights a team of nurses and a social workers provide medical and mental health care to people living on the streets. They take blood pressure, draw blood, prescribe medicine and listen. They want to bring comfort, and show these people they care, but they also want to transform lives and get these people into permanent housing. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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