Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Adds Mobile Mental Health Services

New 'Medical and Behavioral Health Mobile Unit' Takes to the Streets This Fall

Mayor Randy Rose brings out the big scissors to cut the ribbon on Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinic’s new Medical and Behavioral Health Mobile Unit | Credit: Callie Fausey

Fri Aug 11, 2023 | 10:12am

Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC) put an exam room on wheels. Well, it’s actually two private exam rooms, a bathroom, vaccine storage, and a whole host of medical equipment for checking up on the people who can’t make it out to a clinic themselves. 

It’s a rudimentary but ingenious suggestion to solve a complex problem: If people can’t come to the clinic, why not bring the clinic to them?

Keep an eye for Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics’ new Medical and Behavioral Health Mobile Unit. | Credit: Callie Fausey

The nonprofit’s new “Medical and Behavioral Health Mobile Unit” — as well as a separate van for dentistry that’s still in the works — will be hitting the streets this fall to do exactly that.

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