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Children's Health Fund Responds to Public Health Crisis by Providing Mobile Clinic to Care for Children Impacted by the BP Oil Spill
October 7, 2010Almost six months after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion caused the oil spill now globally known as the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history, Children's Health Fund (CHF) is expanding its New Orleans's Children's Health Project (NOCHP) by bringing a Crisis Response Unit to lower Plaquemines Parish. The new project will be in partnership with Tulane University and Plaquemines Community C.A.R.E. Center. The mobile pediatric unit will bring badly needed medical, mental, and public health services to oil disaster affected families.
Founded in 1987 by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/advocate Irwin Redlener, MD, Children's Health Fund (CHF) is the nation's leading pediatric provider of mobile-based health care for homeless and low-income children and their families. CHF's mission is to bring health care directly to those in need through the development and support of innovative medical programs, response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to health care for all children. Full release
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