Providing essential care for our patients often goes beyond the time they are in our health centers, and it can make all the difference in their lives. Take an abortion patient we recently saw at one of our Sacramento health centers.
A friend drove her in for her scheduled on-site abortion, and the patient brought her two-year-old along because she had no one to watch him at home. They didn’t have a car seat, so she carried her child on her lap in the passenger seat.
As the patient and her friend stayed with the toddler in our health center waiting room, they and staff became concerned that the women didn’t have a car seat for him when the patient would be ready to leave after her procedure. It is not safe or legal for a young child to be in a car without being in a secure car seat.
But, after making some quick calls, including to a local Target store, the site’s center manager was able to arrange to get a new car seat to the health center by the time the patient’s abortion care was completed. The center manager presented the patient with her new car seat – free of charge – while she buckled it into the back seat of the friend’s car.
Mission accomplished!
This patient was able to leave our health center that day with the excellent, non-judgmental care she had expected – and some extra care she never would have imagined.
Our Sacramento center manager said, “This is one of the reasons it means so much to me to work here. We really go above and beyond to help our patients who need us.”
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