A recent city study of health among the homeless revealed that homeless people are twice as likely to die as the general population and suffer a wide range of debilitating and chronic illnesses. Project Renewal's Medical Department provides integrated psychiatric and primary care for homeless men and women regardless of their ability to pay and where it is easily accessible to them.

Our two fully outfitted MedVans provide professional primary medical care to homeless people 'where they are' - on the streets, in shelters, at soup kitchens and at drop-in centers. Equipped with two fully operational examining rooms and staffed by a team that includes a physician, a phyisician's assistant, socialworker, nurse practitioner, a pharmacist, a psychiatrist and driver/aide, the MedVans were among the first mobile medical units serving homeless people in the country when it started operations in 1986. Today, it offers preventative, urgent and HIV/AIDS services in addition to primary care. MedVan provides healthcare to 2,000 homeless New Yorkers annually, operating six days a week at 15 sites in Manhattan, Harlem and Brooklyn.

See what WABC said about the MedVan

The MedVan was featured in an article of Chelsea Now. Read the story here

Launched in 2007, the ScanVan is the nation's first mobile radiology clinic to provide both mammograms and chest x-rays to homeless and poor patients.  The ScanVan meets two critical needs: serving poor and homeless women with little or no access to breast health services and screening for tuberculosis. The staff provides counseling, education, and initiates and ensures follow-up treatment for all positive screenings.

Hear the personal journeys of two women whose lives were touched by Project Renewal’s Scan Van. Watch the story here.

Medical Imaging Magazine focuses on the "Mobile Mission" of Project Renewal's ScanVan.

We are grateful for generous support of our breast health screenings for low-income women from:

Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater New York

Project Renewal opened the first free-standing dental clinic for homeless people and indigent New Yorkers in 2004. With funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau and its Bureau of Primary Care Health Care for the Homeless program, the clinic sees 700 patients annually. Clients are able to get every type of oral health care - from preventive care to emergency care to dentures.

Provides medical care including testing, counseling and treatment to homeless men and women living with HIV/AIDS.