Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "Georgina Delatorre, M.S.W., works on the front line of American medicine. Everyone knows that healthcare is a crisis for the poor children of Los Angeles. Poor children get no healthcare until they're in the emergency room, she said. County healthcare clinics have shut down, trauma centers closed, welfare programs shriveled. Georgia said her experience of U.S. medical care has turned her into a socialist. She's a pediatric health clinician who travels with the Cedars-Sinai mobile medical C.O.A.C.H. - Community Outreach Assistance for Children's Health. The free medical unit makes a circuit to L.A.'s poorest schools. Vine Street Elementary in Hollywood warrants a visit every two weeks. Georgina summarized the requirement for medical aid: "Be between zero and eighteen and a human being. The way it should be.""
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1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Community Outreach Assistance for Children's Health Community health services for children--California--Los Angeles Preventive health services for children--California--Los Angeles Community health services--California--Los Angeles Health facilities--California--Los Angeles Community health aides--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Medical care--California--Los Angeles Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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