KJZZ: Homeless health care program in Phoenix area will expand services with new federal grant

A Phoenix organization that provides health care to people experiencing homelessness plans to expand its services thanks to a new grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Circle the City has served homeless patients in the Phoenix area for over a decade. In addition to brick-and-mortar clinics, it has several mobile medical units and street medicine teams that treat patients in parks or alleys across Maricopa County. But until now, these providers have only gone out on weekdays. The $476,081 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced Tuesday, means the mobile teams will soon offer weekend services for the first time.