azcentral: Phoenix pop-up clinic helps women experiencing homelessness with health care

Angela Acevedo was trying her best to keep her leg steady on a recent Thursday morning at the Human Services Campus.

“Going to the doctor is always nervewracking,” she said.

She sat in the courtyard of the campus, a collection of nonprofits serving people experiencing homelessness near downtown Phoenix, waiting to be called into the clinic for her first-ever mammogram.

Circle the City, a nonprofit providing medical care for people experiencing homelessness in the Phoenix area, provided cancer screenings to more than 40 women Oct. 26 in partnership with Assured Imaging, a regional cancer screening provider.

While this was not the first pop-up clinic providing mammograms Circle the City has hosted, it was the first at the Human Services Campus. More than 700 people stay overnight on the campus, and hundreds more filter through the facility each day for resources like meals, clothing and case management. That makes the campus well-suited for reaching new clients, said Wendy Adams, Circle the City’s community outreach supervisor.